March’s most-popular links: Hair, maps, windows apps, web stats and charging for online news
These are the links that got the most clicks in March (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article):
- Lifehacker Code: Texter (Windows): “Text substitution app Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define.”
- How the world really shapes up: Maps of the world with country size determined by stuff like military spending, war and death, toy imports, toy exports…
- Watching your users: “Yes, Omniture, Hitbox, Urchin and all the other web analytics tools do a fine job. But tapefailure looks like it could add another valuable and fascinating layer of user data.”
- Pay-to-play is one way to help save newspapers: At least this guy is straightforward in his lack of imagination. He also cites sources. That’s admirable.
- Anil Dash: Hair Theory: Read this for the kicker at the end… this is the beginning: “It wasn’t until well after I graduated high school that I started to understand the point of combing my hair. I had somehow gotten the idea that the purpose of combing was to push the hair on my head into different places so it looked like the hair on the heads of people I wanted to emulate.”
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