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Driving East

Posted on April 28th by Shae Davidson.
The ideal of the open road has served as a way to examine contemporary life and the nature of change and growth. Some have taken this fascination with movement and ...
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The One and Only

Posted on January 30th by Shae Davidson.
The Lonely Candidate explores the way in which contemporary political rhetoric has overused a simple word and simultaneously reduced innovation and individualism to a level of triteness.  The blog records instances of presidential candidates (with some ...
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Punditry, a Spectrum Thereof

Posted on November 26th by Shae Davidson.
Lying in Ponds tries to quantify political writing by rating popular authors and analysts according to the tone and context in which they use key terms.  Staff members download columns and flag ...
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Designing Baseball

Posted on October 31st by Matthew Hockenberry.
One of our favorite designers is at it again. Lokesh Dhakar illustrates baseball pitches so that you can understand them. If you aren't familiar with Lokesh's name, you're probably familiar with ...

Thoughts on News: Intertextualizing out of the Prolefeed

Posted on October 24th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I've spent a bit of time thinking about news lately. Youtube has an interesting feature. When you're watching a video on youtube it shows you a short selection of related ...
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Journey to the West

Posted on October 3rd by Shae Davidson.
Shaun Huston, professor of Geography and Film Studies at Western Oregon University, created Visualizing the West to provide a forum for artists and scholars interested in ...
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Blogging the Wasteland

Posted on September 10th by Shae Davidson.
Worst Places in the World combines Google Earth images with well-researched, insightful commentary on some of the globe's most unpleasant issues.  The site documents environmental racism, conflict, and the spread of invasive ...

Some Unusual Suspects

Posted on July 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
In case you haven't noticed, this space has become a lot more collaborative in the past two weeks. We've begun featuring some additional writers and cross posting some articles from other collaborative ...
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Mousetrack, now with visualization.

Posted on June 26th by Matthew Hockenberry.
We've got the mousetrack visualizations working (go to the experimenter list here to check it out, follow the visualize link). Some notes: There are preferences, but I wouldn't even go into them right ...
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The Recycled Challenge - Wordpress Theme Contest

Posted on May 28th by Matthew Hockenberry.
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 ...
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Building Community: Featured Experimenters

Posted on May 21st by Matthew Hockenberry.
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 ...
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I’m here to fix your *ahem* database.

Posted on May 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
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). ...

[release] Personal Zeitgeist

Posted on April 25th by Matthew Hockenberry.
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 ...

Notes from the recycling center (week one)

Posted on March 30th by Matthew Hockenberry.
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 as well ...

Additional notes on Recycled Canvas

Posted on March 28th by Matthew Hockenberry.
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 only option. The ...