Ron Diver

This is an interesting framework from Ben Kirman at the Lincoln Social Computing Research Center, who  posits that “social play” can be split into 4 archetypes. These types (Evangelists, Socialites, Reluctants and Anti-Socials) roughly reflect a Myers-Briggs score, but he finds that individuals can embody various styles through their lifetime.

Johannes Ullrich provides some handy scripts for mining data from the popular picture hosting site TwitPic.

Over two-thirds of the images contained detailed EXIF information, providing wealth of info about the device used, location, even cardinal orientation and direction of travel from your handy iPhone.  A small number of files also revealed the photographer’s name.  Summary findings and a link to the scripts are available on his blog.

Hardware manufacturers for a subset of the TwitPic dataset.

Hat tip to @Mona.

A recent survey by the Global Information Industry Center claims that American consumed 3.6 zettabytes of intormation in 2008, an unfathomable amount of data.  The estimated volume is many times higher than previous studies and I’m sure the methodologies will be scrutinized.

Not surprisingly, television still anchors our daily information budget (41 percent of hours) but the overall consumption is diversified across many sources – both electronic and not.  What blows my mind is that the amount of DATA consumed via TV, games, and movies completely dwarfs all other sources.  Music, print, voice, radio, email and all other computer use combined equal less than one percent of our intake.

There are a ton of fascinating tidbits  in the report, check it out (PDF).

Robert Sapolsky on what really separates humans from other mammals.