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Welcome to Gmail: "A Gobble approach to email. In 1621, a few hundred Pilgrims and Native Americans sat down to celebrate a bountiful harvest. The feast lasted three days, and included fowl, venison, fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, and plums. There was no pumpkin pie, however. There was also an alarming lack of user-friendly webmail services."

Japanes subway system or screenshots of Doom 4 levels?

43 Things (a list of what people want to do with their lives) has in the largest font these:
- take more pictures
- work because I like to, not because I have to
- move to New York
- drink lots of coffee
- exercise more

Apart from the last one, I have done ALL of the above during the last year. Living in NYC. Quit my job to start for myself. Bought a digital camera and started taking loads of pictures. And coffee. Seems like I'm doing alright :)

Research shows that often people remember books by the color of its cover ("Well, it's red..."). For some reason, organizing books by their color has been in the news recently. Peterme showed a picture of his bookshelf organized by color in The Tension between the Personal and the Public, there was the Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco that agreed to allow its estimated 20,000 books to be reclassified by color. Cataloblog points to an older effort by the New England School of Law to provide color as a limit on searching. My contribution to the list: the international childrens digital library provides color as one of their facets in the interface.

The England School of Law interface.

The ICD interface includes color and shape as facets.

The Adobe bookshop organized by color.

PeterMerholz's bookshelf.

A google search for color indexing reveals more. Or try Google scholar for papers.

The 6 days with Akshaya series will take a 2 day break, and then continue. :)

ThoughtStorms: RichardP: despam a wiki.

Boxes and Arrows: Redesigning Boxes and Arrows: "We could have redesigned ourselves, but we felt our community is one of our biggest assets, so we turned to them to help us envision our next generation of the website. We got many entrants, often fascinating, sometimes surprising, sometimes strange, all intriguing."

"Intriguing". Is that like saying, my cousin is a bit "special"? Probably not.

OhMyNews International: "OhMyNews, the revolutionary Korean citizen-journalism outfit which launched an English-language version earlier this year has done itself one better: it's now training participatory journalists from around the world."

GlobalGiving: a better way to give.

Day 3: entrepreneurs

1. Six days with the Akshaya project: day 1: overview
2. Day 2: technology
3. Day 3: entrepreneurs
4. Day 4: promotion
5. Day 5: training
6. Day 6: conclusions

The Akshaya project uses an interesting business model: local entrepreneurs run individual Aksaya centers, and are expected to become profitable by themselves. This way the project won't die of lack of funds once the initial interest or funding dries out. Sustainability.