“While cruising around del.icio.us today, our own Stan Schroeder discovered a new Flickr-based visualization called Tag Galaxy, a Germany-based utility, which quickly mesmerized the entire Mashable crew. Think associate editor Paul Glazowski’ s recommendation yesterday of MSNBC’ s Spectra reader was a treat? Wait ‘ til you see this one. You start off be entering a tag such as [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Flickr Visualization Tag Galaxy: Out Of This World!”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/25/tag-galaxy/” });”
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Archive for May, 2008
Flickr Visualization Tag Galaxy: Out Of This World!
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Americans Driving Less
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008“11 billion fewer miles were driven this March compared to last March. Hat tip to Calculated Risk.”
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Electing Judges
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008“The NYTimes has a good piece today on judicial elections, pointing out how odd American practice is compared to the rest of the world. Contrast th[e] distinctively American method of selecting judges with the path to the bench of Jean-Marc…”
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The ethanol program is even worse than you think
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008“Thanks to the inflating cost of popcorn, the price of movie tickets is expected to skyrocket by as much as 30% this year, according to Ricard Gil, a University of Santa Cruz economist who studies the business. “You’re going to…”
via Marginal Revolution
Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!
Saturday, May 24th, 2008“Various Twitter-related tools and plugins have been multiplying fast over since we did our big Twitter Toolbox and 8 awesome Firefox plugins for Twitter earlier. When we say fast, we mean 140+ new tools fast, and we probably missed some, too. You know what this means: now you have to arm yourself with dozens of [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/24/14-more-twitter-tools/” });”
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Fake News Punishable By Google-Death?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008“There’ s been a lot of noise over the fake news posted by Money.co.uk as an SEO tactic today, and perhaps it’ s that I don’ t have any scruples whatsoever, or perhaps all the other coverage I’ ve read is just too holier-than-thou, but in the case of Lyndon Antcliff’ s hoax story that ended up gaming Google, I [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Fake News Punishable By Google-Death?”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/22/google-death/” });”
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Hints of a Facebook Operating System In New Design
Friday, May 23rd, 2008“It’ s become a common trope to say that Facebook and Google are vying to become the operating system of the Internet. But there are some very clear hints of that in Facebook’ s upcoming new design, which it just opened up to today in a developer sandbox. (You can see it at http://www.new.facebook.com, although [...]”
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How to read a business book
Friday, May 23rd, 2008“I like reading magic books. I don’t do magic. Not often (and not well). But reading the books is fun. It’s a vicarious thing, imagining how a trick might work, visualizing the effect and then smiling at how the technique…”
via Seth’s Blog
Why are books so outrageously expensive in Brazil?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008“That’s from a reader request. I’m no expert on Brazil, but here are a few possibilities: 1. Most Brazilians do not read. I don’t mean they can’t read, I mean they don’t read for leisure so much. I was stuck…”
via Marginal Revolution
Taken to the Cleaners, Again
Friday, May 23rd, 2008“A tariff on imports of coat hangers from China is raising dry cleaning costs. The Aplia Econ blog runs the numbers: Advocates of trade restrictions often argue that protection will save jobs. Since we can observe price and cost increases…”
via Marginal Revolution