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  • Why Panasonic Lumix GH3 will be the best video tool

    Panasonic Lumix GH3 launches on December 13th, but pricing remains a mystery Mat Smith, engadget.com Pana­son­ic’s forth­com­ing mirror-less mul­ti­me­dia won­der has been given a release date. Yep, the Lumix GH3, with its ‘unlim­it­ed record­ing time’ and mag­ne­sium alloy build, will arrive in the Land of the Ris­ing Sun just over a month from… http://flpbd.it/IcIl5 Related…

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  • Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing

    Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Stitch­er is already a heavy hit­ter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and pod­casts are acces­si­ble from the desk­top. Today, the com­pa­ny announced an HTML5 ver­sion of its pop­u­lar app that’s……

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  • LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

    LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke Tim­mer­man Mark Levin’s busi­ness is biotech­nol­o­gy, so it’s no sur­prise he knew zilch about a tech com­pa­ny called LinkedIn as recent­ly as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can bare­ly do his job with­out… http://flpbd.it/TIANz Related articles LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Recruiters who know social media are in demand

    Recruiter Job Demand Remains Strong www.recruiter.com, recruiter.com Accord­ing to a new sur­vey by WANT­ED Ana­lyt­ics, there were over 14,000 jobs post­ed online in Sep­tem­ber for recruiters and other staffing pro­fes­sion­als. The num­ber rep­re­sents a 12 per­cent growth over Sep­tem­ber 2011, but a… http://flpbd.it/WuLdr Related articles Using Twitter As A Social Recruiting Tool (windmillnetworking.com) LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Knode attempts to compete with LinkedIn in biotech networking

    Knode: The Next Stage of the Internet is About What You Know Alex E. Weaver, bostinno.com Pre­dict­ing what’s “next” for the Inter­net can be a lot like surf­ing the web itself: daunt­ing, frus­trat­ing and often point­less. There’s a lot of infor­ma­tion swirling around out there, after all, and peo­ple are inter­act­ing with it in… http://flpbd.it/rXXmp…

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  • The anthropology of why constant contact makes you alone

    In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY As soon as Sher­ry Turkle arrived at the stu­dio for her Fresh Air inter­view, she real­ized she’d for­got­ten her phone. “I real­ized I’d left it behind, and I fel… http://flpbd.it/lzBmU…

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  • Why seeing death helps you to value life

    America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” By J. B. Staniforth, salon.com “Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality When we think of mor­ti­cians, we cer­tain­ly don’t imag­ine a bub­bly, self-effacing 28-year-old woman like Caitlin Doughty. But……

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  • DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior

    DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior core77.com Pho­tos Cour­tesy of Paul Sheetz for DRC. After being greet­ed by the wel­com­ing com­mit­tee, check­ing in, exchang­ing my Polaroid photo for my nametag and tak­ing in the intro­duc­to­ry con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence I chugged my morn­ing c… http://flpbd.it/ewTdo Related articles VIDEO: Angelina Jolie visits the DRC…

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  • Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

    Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This… tumblr.com Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing: This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which… http://flpbd.it/CjoBc Related articles Tom Wolfe’s…

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  • Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout

    Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout Byron Tau, politico.com The Obama cam­paign emails sup­port­ers in Penn­syl­va­nia this handy graph­ic remind­ing them to find out some sim­ple infor­ma­tion about elec­tion day. The email seems straight­for­ward enough, but it’s actu­al­ly an exact clone of a social… http://flpbd.it/QUp0x Related articles Get wired or wither: GOP…

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  • Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

    Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com Online real estate ser­vice Zil­low is expand­ing its real estate list­ings today by adding “pre-market inven­to­ry” — specif­i­cal­ly, homes that have either been fore­closed or are in the fore­clo­sure process. Increas­ing the selec­tion of… http://flpbd.it/vNkbI Related articles No longer a…

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  • GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

    An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have…

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