mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 15 2007 | nyt, friends, education, nbc
Alex's project written up in the New York Times today!
Quoted: In a conference room at NBC News headquarters yesterday, a consultant, Alex Chisholm, co-director of a game and education research group at the Massachusetts Institute ...
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 09 2009 | handwriting, nyt
The lost art of handwriting.
BTW - since when did the NYT start publishing articles as IMAGES instead of text? Maybe just this graphics-intensive one?
I recently noticed that facebook displays email addresses as image in a user's Info page - presumably so scrapers can't harvest them (though they are very vulnerable to ocr).
Quoted: American handwriting is in a woeful state. But there is hope. We can stop mumbling on the page and become legible writers by going italic.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 30 2009 | leet, netspeak, nyt, buzzwords
Quoted: The Week in Review’s annual list, from “age-doping” and “hockey mom” to “recessionista” and “Twi-hard.”
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | visualization, graphs, ibm, nyt
This sounds like a very cool visualization site - can't wait to try it.
Quoted: An experimental Web site allows users to upload the data they want to visualize, then try sophisticated tools to generate interactive displays.
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The Many Eyes site, begun in January 2007, offers 16 ways to present data, from stack graphs and bar charts to diagrams that let people map relationships. TreeMaps, showing information in colorful rectangles, are among the popular tools.ShareViewed: 14 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | startpad, rescuetime, startups, nyt
Some great mentions and a quote from StartPad tenants, RescueTime, in the New York Times this weekend.
Quoted: A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to one measure by RescueTime, a company that analyzes computer habits. The company, which draws its data from 40,000 people who have tracking software on their computers, found that on average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day.
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“We are hunter-gatherers at the core,” said Tony Wright, chief executive of RescueTime, who is also a member of the new nonprofit group. “We open e-mail and hit ‘send and receive’ to see if something interesting has come in.”ShareViewed: 3 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 16 2008 | advertising, nyt, tribune, hearst, gannett, quadrantOne
Four newspapers, including NYT, are creating a consortium of online advertising for local ads. The new company is called quadrantOne (17 sales people located in Chicago), selling a combined 50 million monthly unique visitors. I'm guessing about $3M in monthly revenues (assuming $5 CPM, and average 12 impressions per month per user).
Quoted: The companies are hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 31 2007 | puzzles, crossword, nyt
Biographical article about the maker of the Saturday NYT crossword this week - one of the most diabolical in recent memory.
Quoted: Crossword maker Bob Klahn is a puzzling character
ShareViewed: 4 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 04 2007 | crossword, puzzles, nyt
Just did this puzzle with Deb and Darrell today (Nov 4th in Seattle Times). Lot's of gaps including:
27a 30a (IAM) 43a (METZ), 55a (RAGAS) 68a (SCOP) 76a (BEL) 111a (ARREL) 115a (ROARS)
ShareViewed: 50 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 24 2007 | space, shuttle, hdr, photography, nyt, getty images
One of the best Shuttle launch photo's I've ever seen. This one looks like it was taken using HDR techniques (not possible given the short shutter speed). For whatever reason, the photo exhibits really amazing dynamic range.
Quoted: Eliot J. Schechter/Getty Images - The shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center.
ShareViewed: 30 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2007 | voice, text to speech, palm, centro, nyt, david pogue
The Palm Centro has one a really amazing text-to-speech interface for email. Pogue does a demo that is really amazing - service is called "Nuance Voice Control".
Quoted: By David Pogue:David Pogue offers a closer look at the Centro cellphone by Palm.,Video on demand from the New York Times.
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