links for 2011-02-14

Fascinating look at Stephen Wolfram - I met him at Activate in 2009 in the queue for the food, and I think it was one of the most nerve-racking conversations of my life as I struggled to appear intelligent...

"I do strongly believe that happy parents lead to happy children and Twitter makes me happy."

Never has so much been written about a 16x16 pixel icon

Marc Settle's post includes some usage numbers for the mobile version of the BBC News site which show the accelerating shifts in usage patterns

Andrew Sparrow reminded me of this essay the other week in a talk he was giving, well worth a re-visit

Paul Bradshaw with some unexpectedly kind words about my contribution to BBC Online