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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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Recycled Canvas Theme is now available! (v0.9)

Posted on March 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
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 ...
Mashup-graph

[mashups] Lots of coal, but the engine is full.

Posted on March 26th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Read/WriteWeb points out that mapping continues to be the dominate API used for mashups, and wonders if mashups have lost their luster: There are few surprises in this information. Google ...
Barcamp

Barcamp Boston

Posted on March 15th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Barcamp Boston is this weekend (all day saturday and until 5:30 on sunday). I'll try to stop by for some of the time - it is conveniently adjacent. The only ...
mousetrack

Mousetracking for fun (but not profit)

Posted on March 15th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Creative Synthesis is now set up for mousetracking. Here is some of the activity, you can see where people held the mouse longer (bigger, darker circles). If you want to see ...

Be kind to the web, please recycle your research.

Posted on March 5th by Matthew Hockenberry.
As we near the target deadline for releasing our prototype recycled research project, it makes sense to talk a little bit about what we mean. Here is an overview of ...

Sugar? One lump or two?

Posted on March 2nd by Matthew Hockenberry.
A lot of people talk about wanting to try sugar out every time it hits the news. David Armano expresses his interest in trying out the os. Don't just ...

[teaching] Agendas for Managing Students

Posted on February 28th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I don't care what anyone says, managing people is difficult work. More specifically, being a good manager, one that is respected (although not necessarily liked, at least all the time) ...
The thin blue line

[graph-watch] Digg on the thin blue line

Posted on February 28th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Stamen design has some fascinating graph visualizations of Digg but one in particular stands out: Stripping out every story except that one, we can start to focus in on ...

Almost ideal…

Posted on February 28th by Ele.
I'm looking around my room now. When I first set the layout. I was pretty happy and decided that would be it for the year. I look at it now, ...

Textmate can do anything

Posted on February 23rd by Matthew Hockenberry.
Oh textmate, is there anything you can't do? I often use text editors to pre-write anything (posts, emails) because of some paranoid anti-web streak that i have. As I ...