Grace and the whale

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Today, Google is introducing Voice Search support for Zulu and Afrikaans, as well as South African-accented English.

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Effect of wage laws in South Africa

September 28, 2010

From the NYT article Wage Laws Squeeze South Africa’s Poor : Over a third of South Africa’s workforce is now idle. …the number of garment workers employed in South Africa has plummeted to 60,000 from 150,000 in 1996. If the more than 300 factories violating minimum wages ultimately close down, 20,000 more jobs could vanish. …as [...]

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Ireland (83) vs South Africa (54)

August 18, 2010

From The World’s Best Countries

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links for 2010-08-14

August 14, 2010

Arithmetic and Butter Perhaps all scientists hope for accidental discoveries. I seem to be the first to use a research strategy that relies on accidental discoveries. (tags: science research methodology philosophy)

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links for 2010-08-11

August 11, 2010

SWFTOOLS SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files). The tool collection includes programs for reading SWF files, combining them, and creating them from other content (like images, sound files, videos or sourcecode). SWFTools is released under the GPL. (tags: free flash tools programming software development graphics opensource)

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links for 2010-08-10

August 10, 2010

Getting in (and Out of) Line – NYTimes.com As with lines over scrums, markets have much to offer over lines. They are more efficient. They work well for those fortunate enough to have more disposable money than free time. They mop up much of the daily agony of waiting. (tags: economics sociology) Why Metadata Matters [...]

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links for 2010-08-06

August 6, 2010

How To Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business Some things are easy to measure. Time, money, exercise, calories, location – all of these are relatively straightforward to repeatably determine or calculate. But how does one go about measuring happiness, compassion, public influence or creativity? These are more intangible, harder to pin down [...]

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links for 2010-08-05

August 5, 2010

What They Know – WSJ Marketers are spying on Internet users — observing and remembering people's clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal's What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people's computers [...]

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links for 2010-08-04

August 4, 2010

Search Engine History The History of Search: a Timeline (tags: search history timeline internet google infographic seo) Gurus, ninjas, and experts whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com is certainly a veritable and powerful social media strategy generator for any business…but howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com had one of the best snarky social media single serving site takedowns of all time. (tags: twitter socialmedia humour)

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