Archive for February 23rd, 2009

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Thing X: Night of the Living Mashups

Now this is how mashups should be done:
Purdue has taken Google Maps data and combined it with data on CO2 production. You can check absolute values and per capita, by state and by county.
I don’t know much about maps but this is very interesting: a great way to visualize the data so that it’s [...]

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Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Thing 11: Social Media

Digg:
Went to digg. Clicked “most popular” then “last 30 days.” Top “story”: screengrabs of someone posting “IS THIS REAL LIFE?” then a response “Is this just fantasy?” followed by several posts giving the entirety of the lyrics (and some instrumentation) of “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Huh. So what’s the second thing I most needed to [...]

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