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This is another really cool HTML5 site. Wheels of Steel was developed by Scott Schiller who works on Flickr and brings to the online, digital age turntables in your browser. Give it a go and you might just become a superstar dj

wheelsofsteel.net

I’m a bit late in finding this but Such Tweet Sorrow is Romeo and Juliet set in modern Britain and on Twitter. Really cool way of re-telling a classic play

http://www.suchtweetsorrow.com/

Here’s quite an interesting article about how no-one seems to surf anymore. It’s picking up on a talk Steve Rosenbaum gave at Confab 2011. Essentially the argument is because of the sheer volume of data being created, we can only handle pre-curated now, such as RSS feeds, Twitter timelines etc. Not sure I agree as I like to think I ‘surf’ as part of research for my job. I’m not saying I don’t use RSS feeds or other forms of curated data but they’re just part of the sources that I look at. Anyways, read the links and make your own mind up.

http://www.entradista.com/post/6516636415/nobody-surfs-the-web-anymore

http://www.magnify.net/blog/item/3K61WZ2J4WDYZK97/Sleep-Friends-Work-All-Victims-of-Data-Overload-

This is a very interesting article on how programming was initially perceived as ‘women’s work’. The quote from Grace Hopper liking it to planning dinner seems a bit condecending to me.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/cgi-bin/wordpressblog/2011/06/researcher-reveals-how-computer-geeks-replaced-computer-girls/