Things by Matthew Hockenberry
Matthew is the Director of the Collaborative. He writes rarely, and that makes him sad.
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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 ...
[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 ...
(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 ...
Preserving the preservers.
Art is not always easy to keep a hold of. NPR discusses the issues with preservation of digital art. Many of these issues come from the inherent connectedness of ...
Recycled Canvas Beta Report Highlights / Version 1.0
As we wind down our beta period for Recycled Canvas we're in the process of preparing an internal report of some of the results. We're planning on getting the ...
Thirty Tools for Web Enabled Research (or webwares of scientific method)
The first thing I should points out is that this listing is about tools for doing research through the web, NOT about doing research about the web (although you can ...
So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the ...
[graph-watch] Personal Pie
Contrary to what that pretentious mac guy will tell you, you can in fact represent your life in pie charts. Craig Robinson does so quite effectively.
Also:
Kathy Sierra showcases ...
Testing Recycled Canvas 1.0
We're going to be doing some final testing on the 1.0 release of recycled canvas. I'm not going to say a lot about it right now, but visually it is ...
Notes from the recycling center (week one)
A few days into our recycled experiment and there are already some neat things happening. We've seen quite a few downloads (500 or so) of the theme both from here ...
Additional notes on Recycled Canvas
I just wanted to write some additional notes to anyone downloading the theme to try out. It is customizable, and the view you see when you install it isn't the ...
The Recycled Canvas Theme is now available! (v0.9)
If you are interested in becoming an experimenter, just download the theme+plugin and go ahead and get in touch with us. We'll give you access to our code repository and ...