Links for Sunday 27 March 2011

Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style | Foursquare Engineering Blog: Nice description of how Foursquare developed their tool for recommending places to you in Foursquare v3. (via Tom Taylor)
Exquisite Tweets from @kaygeeuk, @Danny_Saxby, @m1ndy9876, @MissEllieMae, @ARRJAYKAY, @BenDylan, @kevmcveigh, @squashypigeon, @sliderulesyou, @oliverburkeman: Highly edited (none of the retweets for a start) version of the “Sky reporters offered protestors £25 to throw bricks” rumour spreading on Twitter, curated by me.
Potlatch: An open letter to the hipster: Will Davies calling on hipsters to be more politically aware (to very crudely summarise). Reminds me a bit of Adam Curtis at The Story talking about how the stories we tell online ignore the political structure of the net. (via Tom Taylor)
Ipswich man in Japanese Earthquake, in 1923 | Kindred Spirit: My grandad’s account of his amazing survival in the Yokohama earthquake in 1923 at the age of 21, including photos. (This little link seems far too brief for something like this.)

Photos taken 27 Mar 2011

11:38am: Reading books about music history is completely difference since Spotify. Wonderful. Headphones now full of Leiber & Stoller.
11:44am: You just don’t get many pop songs about events in jail these days.
03:44pm: Oops, correct URL on the way...
03:56pm: Edited highlights of the “Sky reporters offering protestors £25 to throw bricks” rumour unfolding: http://bit.ly/hXWeVH /cc @sunny_hundal
03:56pm: My tweeting is all fingers and thubms this afternoon.
04:03pm: @GreatDismal @TWUncut Where are the witnesses? Here’s the Sky News / £25 / bricks rumour unfolding on Twitter: http://bit.ly/hXWeVH
04:56pm: Good lord, Ping tries to make me dislike it more by automatically posting my activity to Twitter? *shakes fist pointlessly*
05:28pm: @sunny_hundal Definitely. Rumour apparently based off one stranger recounting this to someone in the street. *Talk* of witnesses, but who?
07:26pm: Mighty vexed by spending all day working on Pepys. Hey ho, as he wouldn’t say.

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