New and Noteworthy for 10/1/08

People more likely to lie by e-mail: New research summarized by the Social Capital Blog discussing a study on the trustworthiness of people across different communications media. The study concluded that people were significantly more likely to lie in email.

Ambient Email Notifier: An interesting do-it-yourself hardware hacker project to build an LED-based email notification device that can change colors and brightnesses based on the type of email received.

ANT Censuses of the Internet Address Space: A large and long term, going back to 2003, research project from ISI to collect data about the internet address space (IP address allocation). The project includes visualizations and papers. The topic of IP address exhaustion is very current and many business have a vested interest in understanding the projections.