youth research 2.0?

I like this idea a lot.

good old Paul Macgregor.

Meme Tracker - new popular phrases online

http://memetracker.org/

Blog Graveyard / digital Tumbleweed

http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/

Of the 133 million blogs the site tracks, only 7.4 million have been updated in the last 120 days.

That's 125.6 million abandoned blogs

Print your own Toys...

http://replicatorinc.com/blog/2008/11/10-things-3d-printers-can-do-now/



These two were created using zCorp machines which apply glue ink and powder in fine layers slowly creating a replica of one of your characters. FigurePrints allows you to create characters from Warcraft, Rockband and Spore printing services are coming soon. A number of other sites allow you to pull data from Second Life and your own 3D programs.

Turntubeles

We've been about the popularity of music on youtube - I found this interesting - nice bit of software that lets you use youtube videos as music turntables, mix, crossfade, etc

http://www.servantofchaos.com/2008/10/the-turntubalis.html

great visual data

http://smas.studioludens.com/

the internet is 5,000 days old

What do the next 5,000 days hold? - this is a great video

Kevin Kelly talks about the internet in terms of us building a machine.

and its quite a machine - currently estimated to be about the same in performance as one human brain. It doubles in power every two years so in 30 years it will the same power as the all the human brains on the planet.

He talks about the internet become embodied (in the tools and devices we use) about it becoming re-engineered and also about us becoming dependant on it.