Research by Scores.org

This is an interesting framework from Ben Kirman at the Lincoln Social Computing Research Center, who  posits that “social play” can be split into 4 archetypes. These types (Evangelists, Socialites, Reluctants and Anti-Socials) roughly reflect a Myers-Briggs score, but he finds that individuals can embody various styles through their lifetime.

Over two-thirds of the images contained detailed EXIF information, providing wealth of info about the device used, location, even cardinal orientation and direction of travel from your handy iPhone.  A small number of files also revealed the photographer’s name.  Summary findings and a link to the scripts are available on his blog.

Hardware manufacturers for a subset of the TwitPic dataset.

Hat tip to @Mona.

Not surprisingly, television still anchors our daily information budget (41 percent of hours) but the overall consumption is diversified across many sources – both electronic and not.  What blows my mind is that the amount of DATA consumed via TV, games, and movies completely dwarfs all other sources.  Music, print, voice, radio, email and all other computer use combined equal less than one percent of our intake.

There are a ton of fascinating tidbits  in the report, check it out (PDF).

H/T to ASteele.

Seattle 2.0 Awards – Glenn Kelman’s inspiring speech from Seattle20 on Vimeo.

Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

Bikes are the same.  Give me an old Motobecane rather than that sweet ride pictured above. With the IF-Mode folding bike (below), Mark Sanders makes the pendulum swing the other way.  I want the things we touch every day to be beautiful, as well as handy. At 32 lbs it still weighs less than my little babies.  Look out, I might just start wearing clothes from Swrve, then you’ll see me riding around town like a dandy.