what i talked about in 2008

I started this blog at the very end of last year because – well, I’m not sure why. I think maybe I was annoyed with Sandra Lee? But what that means is that the end of this calendar year is also almost exactly the end of the blogging year as well. I thought I’d take [...]

more end-of-year stuff – data visualizations

You all know how much I love me some good information visualizations.  Here’s a pointer to a year’s end top five for 2008 from FlowingData.  Two of the five have been highlighted here over the past year – the New York Times, and Wordle. 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year

personal, idiosyncratic best movies of 2008 list

We could end up fitting one more movie in this year, but we probably won’t so Shaun and I did our annual sitting in a pub making our best-five-movies-of-the-year lists last weekend. So again, the rules are these: the movie had to be seen, by me, in the theater during the calendar year in question [...]

the founding fathers are on LibraryThing!

Those historians – they get described as  all curmudgeonly and books yay and it’s better if you can touch the paper journals but seriously, they are technological pragmatists.  If it works they’ll use it.  Today’s example is on LibraryThing. Go here for the project announcement. There’s a whole field of inquiry in history that focuses [...]

words that mean pretty

This blog will never die.  It will never die because of this post.  Written in, I think, in about 15 minutes this post was just a quick thing to share a new tool that I was (and still am) really excited about.  And I’m not the only one. So I never expected that this post [...]

happy birthday to me from delicious, kind of

I don’t have an iPhone, so there are many web sites I’d like to use on my phone that just don’t look very good. Delicious has always been one of those middle-ground sites that looks okay because there just isn’t much to it, but that isn’t really optimal. There’s always been a lot of stuff [...]