I’m back visiting my old home town of Nashville for a few days, and had a super-fun breakfast conversation with Mary Laura Philpott this morning during which she mentioned that she sometimes gets automatically tagged in photos as Nashville mayor Megan
Nice bit of visual storytelling about music consumption format market share.
via graphjam.memebase.com (Note: if the image isn’t changing, click it to go back to the original – it’s an animated GIF, and it’s worth seeing.) Cassette singles. Remember those?
The problem with default web usage metaphors and lazy metrics
via xkcd.com We get used to seeing metaphors and metrics in certain contexts, and we just start taking for granted that they make sense. It’s why I get really animated whenever an e-commerce client cites something Amazon does as proof that a techn…
Google PageRank Powers Endangered Species Hierarchy
In the circle of life there are many players and while there’s no shortage of people, there are unfortunately thousands of endangered animals and plants. Biologists have been looking for ways to determine the most important species based on the nu…