Matthew is the Director of the Collaborative. He writes rarely, and that makes him sad.
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[graph-watch] All the President’s Graphs
The Wall Street Journal has a nice graph selection taking a look at U.S. presidents' job-approval ratings. The site showcases the average approval ratings over time of modern presidencies from ...
Googling for Students
One of my biggest concerns in bringing on new students is their ability to solve problems. I'm much less concerned about teaching actual skills. That's actually not that hard to do. You ...
$100 Laptop at Siggraph Emerging Technologies
As a heads up, the $100 dollar (XO) laptop will be demonstrated at Siggraph 2007's Emerging Tech, by myself and some other Media Lab people. If you're in the area ...
The Recycled Challenge - Wordpress Theme Contest
The collaborative has come into a little bit of money. To celebrate we'll be holding a little contest to for the recycled canvas theme. This seems fairly timely considering the nice ...
Building Community: Featured Experimenters
We've been running the experiment for a little while now (a little over two weeks) and as always, we've gotten a ton of data. More interesting then that though are the kinds ...
I’m here to fix your *ahem* database.
Good Magazine showcases some interesting statistics and graphs about internet pornography on the 'appropriate' medium. Possibly not a safe for work video (there is no nudity but it is definitely risque). ...
Alternative Licensing for Recycled Canvas
Some people have had problems with the recycle-data plugin. The short story is it is likely caused by some namespace like conflicts somewhere in the code. We've corrected some of these but ...
Back and forth: Ecce Homology
I happened across this post at information aesethetics that offers a nice juxtaposition of the previous post on using genetic algorithms to generate fonts. Here font becomes the expression of ...
Chi Review: Qualities of Perceived Aesthetic in Data Visualization
Great (and content packed) talk by Nick Cawthon, University of Sydney, Australia. Fair warning, Alt.Chi presentations aren't considered archival by the Chi community (although maybe they should be). Abstract:Through results gathered from a ...
Reycled Canvas 1.0 is Now
Sorry for the delay but there is a lot of stuff going on here. In addition to the squeaky visual improvements and all of the basic features like: Clean simple theme in two ...
Casual Evaluation - Shaked not stirred
I'm a big fan of thinking about casual evaluation. As I think Piaget would agree, humans are natural experimentation engines. We actively continue to investigate the external world to better learn about ...
Returned from CHI / Updates
Apologies for the lack of updates, we've been away at the chi conference. Saw some good things, some cool things, some bad things, and some disappointing things. While I'm always still ...
[release] Personal Zeitgeist
The personal zeitgeist is a small project that builds on top of SimplePie to offer a personal rss aggregator to the distributed individual. We might be doing a little more with this ...
(Virtual) Earth Day
Google's logo tells me it is earth day. In order to support the planet some people would have you plant a virtual tree. A slightly more delicious (and real) alternative ...
We focus on their head and then slightly to one side.
Stand up comedian Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson gives a remarkable and entertaining talk at TED asking "Do schools kill creativity?" He points out that the values of our educational system ...