A visual history of spam (and virus) email charts spam (and virus laden e-mail) since 1997 when the author started collecting all spam (now that takes dedication!) As his/her graph shows spam took off in 2002 – I wonder what happened then?
gMunk: The FINN movie
The FINN Movie by Gmunk is a video short with a Flash style. Interesting bits of text that aren’t meant to be read or clicked – just after effects of the mind. Gmunks other stuff is also worth looking at, though he pushes the pimp style in his current design beyond kinky into tacky.
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Eyetracking
Eyetrack III – What You Most Need to Know is a summary article about where and how people look at websites based on eyetracking research. The site includes a number of short articles on eyetracking tests.
Quicktime Flickr Photo Viewer
David Wolf’s Quicktime Flickr photo viewer is an interesting applet that will go to the Flickr photo sharing site searches for images tagged with your search word and then shows you the most recent ones. What is impressive is that this is apparently programmed into Quicktime (didn’t know you could do that sort of stuff) and uses RSS. David is going to post a technical note that explains how he did it.
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XML Protest Politics. I found this on a fascinating blog by dpwolf (David Wolf).
Google Cartography
Google Cartography is an applet Richard Jones which produces a visualization of streets and links from the Google API. It starts from a seed street and finds streets connected to the seed through Google.
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I’ve been found!
I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you.
I’ve been found! I changed e-mail to avoid spam, and it has found me. At least it speaks well of me 🙂
Roell on Knowledge Worker
Martin Roell has an extended and thoughtful blog entry on the term “knowledge worker”, Das E-Business Weblog: Terminology: “Knowledge Worker”. It starts with a reaction I had to his paper that I blogged earlier (see Roell: Distributed KM.) He then surveys some deeper discussions of what is at stake and ends up with a pragmatic point about communication in business (which he, not I has to do) and the importance of being understood by managers. Setting aside the pragmatics, here is a list of alternative terms that overlap in interesting ways,
- business person (what’s the difference between knowledge worker and business person?)
- epistemologist (someone who studies knowledge)
- philosopher (someone who loves wisdom, but doesn’t necessarily possess it)
- sophist (someone who thinks he is wise, but probably isn’t)
- office worker
- clerk
- computer (in the old sense of someone who does computations)
- manager
Neat photoblogs
Live from the IRIS is two photoblogs that are powered by i-gizmo.com. The thumbnails are laid out in a calendar. The design is clear, and in both cases the pictures work for me. This is what I want in a photoblog.
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Blogging Translation
Martialis is a site where Nick is translating an epigram a day of Martial. What an interesting idea of what to do with a blog – pace yourself in a volunteer task of use to others.
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