September 2007
33 posts
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infogram critiques and suggestions
Terabitz To Expand Beyond Home Searches Today →
MuseStorm Debuts Widget Engagement Platform →
Opium - Southeast Asia - Golden Triangle - Drug... →
Economic pressure from China, crackdowns on opium farmers , and a switch by criminal syndicates to methamphetamine production, appear to have had the biggest impact. At the same time, some insurgent groups that once were financed with drug money now say they are urging farmers to eradicate their poppy fields. As a result, the Golden Triangle has been eclipsed by the Golden Crescent — the...
Under Bloomberg, Budget and Revenues Swell - New... →
Mr. Bloomberg, who declined to be interviewed for this article, has also significantly increased more discretionary accounts, reflecting his emphasis on quality-of-life issues and his desire to make New York attractive to people and businesses. Spending on parks, often one of the first areas to lose money in lean times, jumped 27 percent over his tenure, to $298 million, for example. The budget at...
Do postcodes define how you live? | Science |... →
British towns and cities are being “ghettoised” by companies that link almost every aspect of our lives to our postcodes, experts warned today.
Is the Surge Working? Ask the Data, Not the... →
The Iraq government has issued bonds in the past. These entitle the owner of the bond to a stream of payments over a set period of time, but only if the government does not default on the loan. If Iraq completely implodes, it is highly unlikely that these bonds will be paid off. How much someone would pay for the rights to that stream of payments depends on their estimate of the probability that...
Fed’s Ex-Chief Attacks Bush on Fiscal Role - New... →
Mr. Greenspan paints a picture of Mr. Bush as a man driven more by ideology and the desire to fulfill campaign promises made in 2000, incurious about the effects of his economic policy, and an administration incapable of executing policy.
10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the... →
Cash to Get By Is Still Pawnshop’s Stock in Trade... →
The number of pawnshops in the United States has grown to about 12,000 today, from 4,800 in 1986, according to John P. Caskey, an economics professor at Swarthmore College who is the author of “Fringe Banking: Check-Cashing Outlets, Pawnshops and the Poor.” The increase is part of the spread of check-cashing outlets and other alternative financial services that have become ad hoc banks for the...
Bronx: Floating Pool Might Float to Bronx - New... →
The pool-equipped barge that attracted thousands of swimmers to the Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer might be headed to Barretto Point Park in the Bronx next year
New biopic on Joy Division, Ian Curtis: Control -... →
Out mid-October: a biopic on Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, shot in luscious black and white by renowned photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn. Pulling in some great reviews, and looks awesome. Hope the film lives up to the tease and does not induce PTSD
Yahoo! MapMixer →
It’s easy to mix your own map. Upload an image of your map, use our layering tool to align it with Yahoo! Maps and we’ll do the rest! Your map will have all the features of Yahoo! Maps (zooming, panning). You can also syndicate it on your own site or blog
Does Social Media Make You Dumb? →
The study found that while the mainstream media talked about important issues like immigration (10%) and Iraq (6%), the only story gaining traction on social news sites was the iPhone. No surprise there. The study does concede that these user generated newsfeeds may not mirror the important news of the day because they may serve has an auxiliary source. However, it ignores the sheer volume of news...
Facebook Apps Are Pointless If They Don’t Work →
Scalability problems have plagued Facebook’s developer platform from the start. There seem to be two primary reasons why Facebook apps have a particularly bad time with scalability. First, Facebook’s news feed serves as a powerful distribution network that can cause applications to spread virally between friends at a rapid pace. The hockey stick can come very quickly and very unexpectedly for...
Web Videos Audience Likes 2.7 Minutes at a Time -... →
ComScore, which measures consumer Internet habits, reported today that 75 percent of Internet users in the United States watch an average of three hours of online video a month. The average online video duration was 2.7 minutes (which, if you do the math, is a couple of videos a day, many of which no doubt scrape the bottom of the blender of content).
The Holy Grail For Mobile Social Networks →
PikiWiki Welcome →
LukeW: Primary & Secondary Actions in Web... →
Sclipo Releases Live Video Teaching For Hire →
RFID implants linked to animal tumors - Boing... →
series of studies conducted from 1996-2006 noted a high incidence of dangerous tumors arising at the sites of RFID implants — something the FDA apparently did not consider when it approved the procedure.
New Focus on the Effects of Life Tenure - New York... →
it is beyond debate that interest in re-examining the wisdom of the Constitution’s grant of life tenure to Supreme Court justices, a lively topic at the time of Chief Justice Rehnquist’s illness and death, has continued to grow.
What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other... →
“To our generation, it doesn’t make sense to have a great job in a crummy city,” said Mark Van Dyke, 25, describing his decision to move three years ago from the suburbs of Chicago to Bellingham, Wash., where he worked low-paying retail jobs before finding one in marketing, at Logos Bible Software. It was all worth it, he said, because his new hometown is “on the Pacific Ocean but driving distance...
visualcomplexity.com | About →
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing...
Through the Looking Glass - washingtonpost.com →
He gazes at his Mandarin Oriental hotel surroundings off Maryland Avenue. “It looks like one of those low-resolution, decaying-fractal hotels you’d find in Second Life,” Gibson muses as he walks around the broad, empty meeting-room corridors, thinking of that Internet virtual world where residents interact through animated selves. “You keep waiting for somebody to scoot out...
Prostitution Targeted on Craigslist - New York... →
“Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now,” said Richard McGuire, Nassau’s assistant chief of detectives. “Technology has worked its way into every profession, including the oldest.” — The Craigslist modus operandi provides mobility, helping prostitutes keep a few steps ahead of the law, law enforcement officials say. It also affords a...
Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York →
GET LOST is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory that is both real and imaginary.
PolitiFact | A service of the St. Petersburg Times... →
Welcome to PolitiFact, a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly. In the months ahead, the news staffs of both organizations will examine major claims by presidential candidates and rule on their veracity. Our Truth-O-Meter will help voters sort fact from fiction in the campaign. This is a working database and over time it will grow more valuable.
Before Models Can Turn Around, Knockoffs Fly - New... →
“If I see something on Style.com, all I have to do is e-mail the picture to my factory and say, ‘I want something similar, or a silhouette made just like this,’ ” Ms. Anand said. The factory, in Jaipur, India, can deliver stores a knockoff months before the designer version.
5min - Life Videopedia →
Whiting Out the Ads, but at What Cost? - New York... →
What happens when the advertisements are wiped clean from a Web site? There is a contented feeling similar to what happens when you watch a recorded half-hour network TV show on DVD in 22 minutes, or when a blizzard hits Times Square and for a few hours, the streets are quiet and unhurried, until the plows come to clear away all that white space.
On the overuse of exclamation points. - By Jacob... →
Like 24-hour cable newscasters, we compensate for the unworthiness of our meanings by being emphatic! (A good rule of thumb: The more insignificant the message, the more exclamations it will require.) It’s a Freudian reaction formation: I really mean it! I loved the conference! OMG did I LOVE it!!!!!!
News Pages →
Greg Smith has an interesting post on the evolution of the architecture of information as presented in newspapers. Greg’s thesis, “Movable Parts: The Retooling of the Los Angeles Times” explored some of these themes in more depth.