Meaningful Data

I decided to switch to a look that’s a little less generic. This theme is called “Connections ” and it’s by www.vanillamist.com. I like how it lets you customize the header image. The photo I used is Punchcard taken by Robyn Gallagher and posted to Flickr with a CC-BY license.

More changes to this blog coming soon.

moot at re:publica '09, photo by christian.pier

So, moot (founder of 4chan.org) won Time magazine’s audience poll for most influential person. He got over 16 million votes, with an average rating of 90 out of 100 (the next highest rating anyone got was 47). If you’ve never heard of moot, you’re probably wondering how somoene you’ve never heard of can get such a high ranking and so many votes. If you know who he is, or you’re familiar with 4chan, you know that his community is huge, internet savvy and very, very active when it comes to causes they care about. An internet poll is just the place for them to show up in force and make their opinion known.

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Today we had a full-day workshop with a client, and I periodically felt the need to twitter about it. There’s nothing in here specific to the client, and it’s probably interesting to no one, but I’m going to post it anyway.

• Bostoners are going to be parading today. Should be passing by the office where we’re meeting sometime in the next hour. about 7 hours ago from web
• Starting a 7 hour client meeting, and yes, I’ve had coffee. about 7 hours ago from web
• Have to remember that outside NY and some places out west, bagels are probably not worth having. about 7 hours ago from web
• Clarification: NY bagels and “out west” bagels are totally different species, but both yummy. about 7 hours ago from web
• Why take a perfectly good blondie and ruin it with raisins? about 4 hours ago from web
• damn it, lunch and caffeine withdrawal are making me crash about 3 hours ago from web
• the morning’s discussion was pretty congenial, but this afternoon, with discussion of personas, the room has suddenly become a bit hostile about 3 hours ago from web
• turns out that the problem isn’t so much with the personas themselves, but with the fact that we’re calling them “personas” about 2 hours ago from web
• one of the skeptics has become a supporter. Awesome about 2 hours ago from web
• turns out that they like the sausage, but they actually DIDN’T want to see the tour of the factory about 25 minutes ago from web