Links for 2007-02-20
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I was just talking to Peter about the black magic behind FeedBurner’s subscriber stats when I came across this post. Gives a little insight into how web based reader subscriptions are measured.
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Saffer reviews Lynch’s book on transcendental meditation. I found the recent interview in Fortean Times tantalising, now I guess I need to get the book!
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Triggered by a Where 2.0 talk by Kevin Slavin on big games, Nicolas Nova philosophises about the real meaning of location and how we should take it beyond simple GIS data.
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Area/code make big games: “Big Games are large-scale, multiplayer games that include some form of real-world interaction.” Reminiscent of alternate reality games such as Ilovebees.
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Cool piece by jack of all trades Garrett Dimon on the origins of his recent redesign. I’m familiar with Tufte’s work and am actually most interested in the underlying system Garrett uses for including all the imagery.
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Interesting Ruby on Rails blogging tool.
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Stowe Boyd offers a better definition of social media that Scoble does but goes a bit over the top for my tastes; too naive and too focussed on polarizing consumers of old and users of new media with the term ‘edglings’.
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Brandon Schauer thinks iCal sucks and I must agree (although I do think his Mac might be a bit underpowered; but on the other hand: since when do we need processing power for calendaring?)
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Gene Smith discusses how his (and my own) idea of what a system is differs from a recent post by Merholz’s recent post on systems design.
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Links to five useful articles on presenting, creating presentations and being a presenter.
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