TV Show scoring: the decline of True Blood • 28 Jan 2011
I got the DVDs of the 3 True Blood seasons for Christmas and when I started watching , I really got into it. Sookie is adorable, Jason is charming with a low IQ (and strongly resembles George W), there’s the interesting...
Wordle and famous movies • 19 Aug 2009
Just the other day I was reminded of the existence of Wordle (via the Music Zeitgeist project). Wordle makes an esthetically pleasing word cloud of any assembled text you throw at it. “The clouds give greater prominence to words that...
Seth’s bandwidth vs synchronicity graph: it’s a start • 05 Aug 2009
Seth Godin came up with a visualisation of ‘means of communication’: bandwidth vs sync(chronicity). He took a number of ’old’ (postal mail, radio) and ’new’ (blogs, YouTube and -of course- Twitter) technologies and ranked them on a 2D graph according...
Lots of New Year’s pictures • 03 Jan 2007
Lots of people have been taking pictures on New Year and this clearly shows in the stats of incoming pictures at two major photo hosting sites: Flickr and Smugmug. Flickr reached a peak of nearly 100.000 pictures/hour (97.1 k#/h) and...
