Gamers Mimic the Season’s Ups and Downs. The popular teams among players of Madden NFL 2011 were those that were winning and successful in real life. Pretty cool data from the New York Times. (via Flowing Data)
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Heavy Analytics for BuddyPress. Pretty cool looking plugin in development to display detailed stats about users in a WordPress multi-site installation. Hat tip to Stephane Daury.
The hypocrisy of the media attack on Wikileaks
Ian Dunt at The Guardian writes about the hypocrisy of the media attack on Wikileaks: The only difference between Wikileaks and other news organisations is that Wikileaks is doing its job properly. This is not a symptom of its greater intelligence, merely its ability to… Continue reading →
The 37signals Suite and Ownership
37signals launched a bulk subscription suite for their apps a couple of days ago. In the launch announcement I noticed that they refer to users as owning their apps: Currently the 37signals Suite is only available for people who already own a Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, or… Continue reading →
Retweets and permalinks
My last post threw me against an odd stumbling block with new-style retweets on Twitter: there are no permalinks for retweets. In a post explaining the changes to retweets almost a year ago Evan Williams noted various problems with the old style of retweets. Two… Continue reading →
WordCamp Philly Slides
Later today I’m presenting about how to use Edit Flow to master an editorial workflow from within WordPress. The slides below cover what I’m talking about which includes some new features coming in 0.6 which will be released shortly. If you have any questions about… Continue reading →
VaultPress Stats
VaultPress added more detailed stats yesterday. In this release are ways of measuring your site’s vitality as well as displaying what time of day and what day of the week you blog most often. Pretty cool stuff.
Alex Byers on journalists and programming
Alex Byers makes an interesting case for journalists not learning programming skills: Writers will produce the best written word, photographers will snap the best pictures, and programmers will build the best apps. That’s not going to change, so don’t give up being awesome at something… Continue reading →
Mark Pesce at Webstock
http://www.r2.co.nz/clientbin/player-licensed-viral.swf Mark Pesce’s blog the human network is a must read and he just published the full video of his talk at Webstock. The transcript was posted back in February but the video is well worth watching. Here are some scattered annotations on what Pesce… Continue reading →
Thinking about a data-driven college
In an effort to start tracking some of the ideas I have while reading I want to start making note of ideas and questions that come up here. This is the first of such posts and we’ll see what form they take in the future.… Continue reading →