Eszter’s Blog

• Windy Citizen
  (tags: news chicago)

• Released from prison after being wrongly convicted, man starts his life …
  (WaPo)
  (tags: education legal crime article)

• GreatNonprofits
  user-written reviews of nonprofits (Yelp for nonprofits)
  (tags: nonprofits reviews reference)

• News: Demystifying Aid for Community College Students
  (Inside Higher Ed)
  (tags: news higher-education finances skill)

• Geocaching log sheets
  (tags: geocaching)

Since delicious has decided not to play nice with my blog again (that is, post automatic updates), here it goes manually.

Reading Twitter in Tehran (Washington Post) op-ed piece by Berkmanites John Palfrey, Bruce Etling and Rob Faris “Why Twitter Won’t Bring Revolution to Iran”

Postlets “real estate marketing for Web 2.0″

Iowa teen is the latest texting champion (MSNBC)

Pixar grants girl’s dying wish with home viewing of ‘Up’ (OCRegister) – “Company sent DVD so Huntington Beach girl, 10, could watch it”

Internet and Broadband Adoption over time Pew graphic

Academic Earth “video lectures from the world’s top scholars”

How to lose your job in 140 characters or less (The Brand Builder blog)

Unemployed workers are finding more jobs through social networking sites (CNN Money)

U.S. State Department Speaks to Twitter over Iran (Reuters)

An interrupting culture – The Economist’s and its readers take on my post about seminar cultures

States thwart license plate SNAFUs

• Facebook’s E-mail Censorship is Legally Dubious, Experts Say
  (tags: facebook legal censorship)
• Aerial Virtual tour of New York
  a neat way to look at NYC
  (tags: photos nyc aerial)

• How important is WolframAlpha?
  interesting discussion of the potential of this new computational knowledge engine
  (tags: search discussion)
• RushmoreDrive
  "The Premier Starting Point & Destination for the Black Community"
  (tags: search-engines)

• Career Advice: What You'll Be Asked
  (Inside Higher Ed) – questions from interviews at community colleges
  (tags: article advice teaching interview jobs)

• The Official White House Photostream on Flickr
  some great photos
  (tags: whitehouse photos obama president)

• Sereno family: 6 kids from the Chicago-area Sereno family become powerhouse PhDs
  (Chicago Tribune)
  (tags: article education family)

• When the Last Survivor Is Gone
  (The Jewish Daily Forward)
  (tags: article holocaust history jews)

• Digital Archives That Disappear
  (Inside Higher Ed)
  (tags: archives access google article)

• iKnowTweet
  aggregation of questions being posted on Twitter
  (tags: tools twitter questions answers)
• Mediactive
  "Creating a Users' Guide to Media in a Networked Age"
  (tags: journalism news literacy media)
• Book Returned to Washington and Lee Library Only 52,858 Days Late
  (tags: article books libraries amusing history)
• DoesFollow
  "Find out who follows whom on Twitter"
  (tags: tools twitter)

• Exifer
  EXIF image viewer and editor
  (tags: software freeware tools photos edit exif)

• Diplomatic Efforts Get Tech Support
  (WaPo) – Northwestern alum in interesting position at the State Department
  (tags: article northwestern technology)

• a tweet
  reference to me as "Ezra Hargittai", funny, not making fun of the person, I very much appreciate the shout-out
  (tags: twitter tweet hargittai)

• Google Earth faces terrorist target airbrush bill
  (The Register)
  (tags: googleearth article security)
• Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5K
  (NetworkWorld)
  (tags: article mac security)
• Woman watches home invasion on webcam
  (CNN)
  (tags: interesting article crime)
• African Signals
  crowdsourcing "local rates for mobile phone and internet connections around Africa"
  (tags: africa crowdsourcing reference prices)

• With Finance Disgraced, Which Career Will Be King?
  (NYTimes)
  (tags: article job career)

• Immigration and Jobs – Map of Foreign-Born Workers – Interactive Graphic
  (NYTimes)
  (tags: interesting reference stats)
• Peeps on Parade: 2009 finalists
  (Chicago Tribune) – cute
  (tags: easter peeps funny design)