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By clock on July 29, 2008.

We knew the web was big...

The Blogosphere Needs to Mature - But How?

Tracking Facebook's 2008 International Growth By Country

The Web's Dirty Little Secret

The Future of the Desktop

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It is with great regret that I am writing this. Scienceblogs.com has been a big part of my life for four years now and it is hard to say good bye. Everything that follows is my own personal thinking and may not apply to other people, including other bloggers on this platform. The new contact…
Open Laboratory 2010 - submissions so far
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The list is growing fast - check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own - an essay, a poem, a cartoon or original art. The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions…
Clock Quotes
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At bottom every man know well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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