Here’s a snappy little tool from Adobe that lets you convert a PDF into text or html. Maybe you don’t think you need it, but now that you have it I bet you’ll find a dozen or so uses for it.

Information Is Beautiful delivers some stats around a point that anyone participating in social media knows: women outnumber men (well, except on Digg).

Of course, we live in a country where about 51 percent of the population is female, and women tend to be more social than men (who tend to be more transactional online). So it should come as no surprise to anyone that women have an edge in social media demographics.

But while everyone from Mashable on down seems to be posting and tweeting about this today, the point that’s being missed is that distaff dominance may be narrowing — at least on the big daddy of social networks, Facebook.

A Rapleaf study last year highlighted by Read Write Web has some numbers that give some interesting perspective on today’s numbers. While women comprise 57 percent of the Facebook audience, that number is down from 61.4 percent last year.

Inside Facebook pretty much agrees with the 57 percent number, but look at the rest of the data: In two of the three largest Facebook demographics — 26-34 and 35-44 — more men than women are coming to the service.

So, yeah: “Women rule the social Web.” But the headline might just as easily have been: “Men catching up to women on the social Web.”

I spent the weekend at Podcamp Philly — my first Podcamp, my first unconference, and easily one of the best professional events I’ve ever been to.

The question was raised several times: Is there a directory of scheduled chats on Twitter? No one had a specific resource at their fingertips, so one of the first things I did when I got back to my computer today was to see what I could find.

Back in May, Meryl Evans posted this pretty comprehensive list over on her blog. I haven’t yet found anything better.

The industry hopes. Financial Times reports.

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
—T.S. Eliot