Posts tagged links
Another Twitter visualisation
Feb 3rd
I promise I’ll stop posting links to these one day. Anyway, this is from a series of Superbowl-related interactive visualisations produced by the New York Times: Unlike the visualisation of #inauguration posts I linked to recently, this isn’t based on hash tags but instead uses moving tag clouds to illustrate the volume of Twitter posts [...]
Infographics at work
Nov 26th
Last night I watched IOUSA on the BBC iPlayer (unfortunately this was over cable TV – I can’t find it on the web iPlayer). It’s a film made by the former US Comptroller General, David Walker, which attempts to convince the viewer of the seriousness of America’s national debt problem. …and it worked on me. [...]
Monday morning links
Sep 15th
This weekend everything here was moved from brelson.com/blog to brelson.com, and a couple of links summaries were missed as a result. So I’ve decided to post them manually instead… Planet of the Lemur: 10 Beautiful Little-Known Species Here are some excellent pictures of lemurs. My favourite is the crowned lemur. Thoughts for an eleventh September: [...]
The 2008 US box office visualised
Aug 29th
A nice week-by-week visualisation of the US box office takings throughout 2008. It gives you a good sense of how quickly many films drop off the radar, and also of the size of the gap between successful movies and (comparative) flops. As you scroll along to the right, for example, you’ll find yourself thinking that [...]
Why you should work from home more often
Jul 28th
I’m lucky to have an employer with a sensible telecommuting policy – all of our staff are entitled to spend one day per week working from home. If this isn’t something your company does, this column from the Economist provides a useful summary of the reasons why they should. The benefits of telecommuting are realised [...]
Tweeting on the bus
Jul 26th
Earlier this afternoon, as I was passing Angel station on a bus, I posted to Twitter. I’ve subsequently discovered my ‘tweet’ turning up at this site – Tweets on the bus. The concept is simple – it collects Twitter posts containing the term “on the bus”, and presents them all on one web page. It’s [...]
Pubs, epidemiology and geo-mashups
Jul 23rd
I recommend reading this blog post from Jeffrey Veen, author of “The Art & Science of Web Design”. You may be familiar with Dr John Snow as the man who successfully traced the source of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak. A pub on Broadwick Street in Soho is named after him, and the water-pump that started [...]
Twitter in plain English
Jul 17th
After my previous post on not “getting” Twitter, I’ve spent a fair bit of time getting to grips with it and have been sucked in to a considerable extent. I’ll post more about my road-to-Damascus Twitter conversion in the next couple of days, but in the meantime I’d refer any interested readers to this video, [...]
Microupdates and me (and you)
Jul 15th
Further to my previous post about not ‘getting’ Twitter, here’s an article from the OpenObjects blog with a few examples of how this sort of thing (micro-blogging? micro-updates?) can be useful: http://openobjects.blogspot.com/2008/07/microupdates-and-you-aka-twits-in.html I especially like the Firefox anecdote. I’m starting to get the idea that it’s the ancillary geek-built tools that constitute the real value [...]
