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Five Million ‘Thank You’s from Recycled Canvas

Posted on October 12th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Recycled Canvas, our recycled research wordpress theme that collects data about its users, has been around for a pretty long time now. We've collected an incredible amount of data. We've had ...
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Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.

Posted on August 19th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
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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 ...

Alternative Licensing for Recycled Canvas

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

Reycled Canvas 1.0 is Now

Posted on May 7th by Matthew Hockenberry.
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 ...
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Recycled Canvas Beta Report Highlights / Version 1.0

Posted on April 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
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 Recycled Canvas ...

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 ...
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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 bug tracking ...