Listening to All the Music
When people talk about the beauty of the early web – before the Internet was “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of… Read More »Listening to All the Music
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Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant… With Data!
Last summer, I wrote about the statistically improbable restaurant, the restaurant you wouldn’t expect to find in a small American city: the excellent Nepali food… Read More »Stalking the Statistically Improbable Restaurant… With Data!
Race, Fame and Ability: untangling media coverage of NFL QBs
Some research from our lab, the Center for Civic Media, because it’s fun and something I’m glad we produced. In the US, NFL football is… Read More »Race, Fame and Ability: untangling media coverage of NFL QBs
Lessons from Letterlocking: a serendipitous academic encounter
Here’s a quick experiment – I’ve been publishing stories on FOLD and replicating the text here on this blog. But FOLD now supports embedding –… Read More »Lessons from Letterlocking: a serendipitous academic encounter
Pixação, or why São Paulo looks like a death metal album cover
One of the first things I noticed about Sao Paulo was the graffiti. It’s everywhere, and it’s stylistically very striking – angular, highly stylized letters… Read More »Pixação, or why São Paulo looks like a death metal album cover
The biography I’m waiting for: Bambaataa and the parallel universe of hip hop
I wrote a book review, of sorts, last week about Walter Isaacson’s book on Steve Jobs and my concern that biographies, as a genre, celebrate… Read More »The biography I’m waiting for: Bambaataa and the parallel universe of hip hop