A second edition of Linkage already? Yes. This batch of inspiring links comes from Associate Creative Director Brent Eveleth. Brent's email added another element of commentary with the "currently" status under each link -- a wonderful addition to the usual "check this link out" email. Nice touch, Brent.

Perspectv is a way to track instances of any word or phrase across Tweets, blog posts, news feeds, searches, etc. It allows for single or comparative views, and can show you real-time data on who’s saying what about your brand.

Currently: exploring perspctv to inform the handling of social media in a new business project's discovery phase.

BONUS: nytimes.com  had a great visualization of Twitter chatter during the Super Bowl (click “Talking about ads” on the left to see the discussion of the spots – Career Builder clearly kicked a**.)

Designer Mark Boulton shares some great insight into his team’s transparent process of architecture and design for the new Drupal.org site, including some novel ideas for ad hoc testing (fresh!), rapid prototyping using CSS and HTML (hot!) and a system that eases into the design phase gradually (gradual!).

Currently: marveling at the transition this creates from prototype to design to developed code.

 
Boxee is a social app/media player that plays your music/vids/photos, streams programming from the major networks (all sponsored by advertising), podcasts, torrents, photo feeds, you name it, it probably plays it.  Then, it broadcasts what you and your friends are enjoying, so you everyone will know you’ve been watching those re-runs of Small Wonder.

Currently: NOT watching Small Wonder. I swear.

Props to Brent again for the inspired finds.