Arphid chair follows you around the library; GPS bloz’n'hax in the wild; Long Tail redux, nanopaper …

• 1 - Politicians Embracing Technology To Actually Communicate With Constituents
  “… it’s fascinating to see an elected official in DC actually embracing technology to communicate directly with people in a way that isn’t just him broadcasting a message to people.”
  (tags: communication social-media technology politics)
• 2 - Robotic Chair: RFID Robotic Chair Follows You Around For Constant Seating
  “What you do is swipe your RFID-enabled library card in front of the chair’s sensor, which then follows you (or your card) around the library so you always have somewhere to sit.” Sedentary-tastic!
  (tags: seating technology robots furniture library RFID)
• 3 - GPS System Integration Design & Test
  “Here’s yet another way to measure the success of GPS: by the efforts to negate it. While unintentional jamming continues to rise, intentional jamming [...] has shown increased vigor in the past six months.”
  (tags: futurism technology surveillance security privacy jamming GPS)
• 4 - absence of water - pictures of London’s abandoned lidos
  “In the Thirties London’s outdoor lidos were at the peak of their popularity. Gradually tastes have changed, resulting in a drop in attendances, leaving the pools uneconomical to run. Many fell into decay and many were demolished.”era.
  (tags: decay London lido swimming-pool gallery photography architecture abandoned)
• 5 - Selling To The Long Tail Doesn’t Mean You Ignore The Hits
  “I don’t think that anyone ever said that you completely ignore the hits. Perhaps it’s a problem of the name “the long tail” but it starts to make people focus all the way at the end of the tail — the part that is the least profitable.”
  (tags: analysis model business music marketing long-tail economics)
• 6 - Should You Invest in the Long Tail?
  “It was a compelling idea: In the digitized world, there’s more money to be made in niche offerings than in blockbusters. The data tell a different story.” The HBR slams the Long Tail.
  (tags: data marketing music model business long-tail)
• 7 - New ’super-paper’ is stronger than cast iron
  “The secret to the nanopaper’s performance is [...] the way they are arranged into networks. Although strongly bound together, they are still able to slip and slide over each other to dissipate strains and stresses.”
  (tags: architecture physics fabbing strength tensile cellulose nanopaper materials)
• 8 - WordPress plugin: Welcome Visitor! Reloaded
  “Basically this plugin displays custom welcome message in the sidebar or anywhere in your blog for new or returning visitors.”
  (tags: welcome-message plugin wordpress)

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