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• Engelbergtunnel: #Anhydride causing problems in #tunnel – and increased costs http://bit.ly/f6Envu (via @StZ_Stuttgart) #

It is wild, how on one day a topic can be discussed so wildly on the internet. Today it seems like RSS is the hot topic.

• First I noticed this post on camendesign: complaining that RSS won’t be on the top GUI layer of the new generation of web-browsers;
• Oliver Gassner wrote about it (in German): The RSS reader is dead, but not RSS per se, because notifications are important and RSS is the underlying technology;
• even Seth Godin wrote about it: In contrary to Oliver Gassner, who uses it to keep track of only a few blogs, Seth Godin uses it to keep track of many blogs;

Here are my thoughts:

• RSS is dead and twitter took over its role. This is the impression I get at least often when using twitter. A lot of people seem to use twitter to announce their blog posts. I think this is not what twitter is good for and neither what twitter is intended for. Why waste twitter posts?
• It still is very useful for me to use an RSS reader. This is how I keep track of blogs that are of interest to me
• It is easy and tempting to subscribe to too many blogs or RSS streams. I am trying to unsubscribe to blogs on a regular basis

• Google Ngrams – view the timeline of occurrences of words – cool #data #visualization #tool and #toy (via @theAGU) http://ke-we.net/9w5 #
• #excel repair numbers formatted as text: Used functions: Clean, Trim, Convert to Number http://ke-we.net/axr #
• Time compares governmental, economic diffs. between #flood in #Pakistan and #Australia http://shar.es/X8Pa9. RT @bryanrwalsh via @highlyanne #
• Australian flooding – The Big Picture http://redir.ec/BGls <= Das arme Känguruh auf Nr. 21 (via @Lnell) #
• Scientists use Wiimote to measure #water evaporation rates http://ke-we.net/aw9 #science (via @JeremiahOsGo) #
• Oh, and datetime is an intrinsic / default adapter. Nice. #python #database. #
• Don't forget detect_types argument in sqlite3.connect statement with your own adapters! #python #database #
• Cool results of #mathematica one-liner competition: http://ke-we.net/avx – 140 characters or less of code! #

Dear readers,

the AGU fall meeting was the last big thing last year. And it was a source of a seemingly infinite number of ideas, also for this blog.

Let’s see what 2011 will bring! I wish you all the best!

Let’s get started with some cool shots of water! 🙂 (via PhotoEditor)

Water Sculpture from Shinichi Maruyama on Vimeo.