Etsy’s Treasury is something I’ve long been fascinated by. It’s an ever-changing, member-curated shopping gallery with some unique constraints. Treasury lists only live for 48 hours. Each list has a limit of 42 comments. You can only create a list if the total number of lists falls below 333 (shorthand for
Category Archives: Lists
Reading List
February 16 10
Books follow me around and accumulate in stacks: by my desks, bed, coffee table, couch. Sometimes they get in the way but I like having them around. If I could have the current active lot organized into a single stack based on pages viewed, notes taken and ideas generated, it would probably look like this:
1.
A [...]
Playing Favorites
August 4 09
Image by pleasebestill, also used here
There are many strategies people use to make discoveries on Etsy. This is my favorite.
Find a shop you like? Check out their favorites. Find an item in their favorites that you like? Check out that shop’s favorites. Repeat until you realize five hours have gone by and you have [...]
Sketchbook Secrets
April 15 09
Julia Rothman regularly showcases fascinating book objects on Book By Its Cover but the sketchbook category is especially special. Look at what she’s talked people into sharing:
Jim Stoten’s madly detailed secret drawings.
Andrés Sandoval’s accordion fold-out sticker collages.
Reka Kiraly’s thick bold lines.
Calef Brown’s characters.
Etsy seller Iris Schwarz’s delicate line drawings.
The handmade category is worth extensive clicking [...]
Datamob Updated, Mr. President
January 26 09
With President Obama firing off memos and executive orders on open government, FOIA obedience and Executive Branch ethics, now feels like a good time to make sure Datamob is up to date. Notable additions:
Capitol Words visualizes the most frequently used words in the Congressional Record and does so in more useful ways than those Wordle [...]
Notebook Reviews
September 2 08
For all the dorks like myself who obsess about notebooks, this post is for you.
Full disclosure: I tend to be partial to notebooks of the pocket-sized, reporter-style, durable, flexible, wirebound and blank variety, but I use and sample all kinds. To my mind there are two types of notebooks: portable and desktop. Portable notebooks [...]
Charticle Theory
May 6 08
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Top interface tags on Datamob
usa
26
(52%)
government
23
(46%)
maps
14
(28%)
language
[...]
Glosses Through the Ages
April 17 08
“In getting my books, I have been always solicitous of an ample margin; this not so much through any love of the thing in itself, however agreeable, as for the facility it affords me of pencilling suggested thoughts, agreements, and differences of opinion, or brief critical comments in general. Where what I have to note [...]
The Marginalia of John Adams
April 7 08
At some point I’ll stop blogging about LibraryThing, but it won’t be easy with the amount of material they provide. Tonight’s discovery via this post on the LibraryThing blog is the transcribed marginalia of John Adams. Before blogs allowed people to offer comment on everything they read and tediously deconstruct arguments paragraph by paragraph for [...]
Bookshelves of the Deceased
March 27 08
The street booksellers of New York who haunt the estate sales of deceased book lovers know where to get the best books. Via LibraryThing’s I See Dead People’s Books group:
James Joyce, genius:
· The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
· The Book of the Land of Ire, Being a Record of Those Things That Were Done by the [...]
The Paper Version of the Web
March 17 08
People have been sketching user interfaces since the birth of the web (possibly even before) but the sketches usually stay locked away in old notebooks and discarded bar napkins in Austin, Texas. Many of the websites we use started out as scrawlings, and with people like Jakob Nielsen and Bill Buxton spreading the gospel of [...]
The Big List of Things I Like About LibraryThing
March 7 08
#3: book covers.
A year ago I rounded up a fairly big list of bookish social networks. I’ve since tried a number of them (as the list has grown to something like 40 bookish competitors) and was pretty hyped up about Google Book Search until their embeddable book clippings started breaking and I realized their full-text [...]
Five Websites That Might Possibly Change the World
January 18 08
Cynicism is dead in 2008. What are you doing to help the world? The least you can do is check out some forward-thinking websites.
Meetup Alliance attempts to take the meetup concept to the next logical level. If meetups are about the power of local groups that meet regularly, Meetup Alliance is about the power of [...]
Wikipedia Beacon Backup
December 2 07
This is your Firefox on Wikipedia with Tabs Mix Plus.
This being the season for useless year-end lists, here are the top 100 articles in my 2007 Wikipedia browsing history based on popularity on del.icio.us.
Agile software development
List of places blurred out on Google Maps
Go (board game)
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
Graph theory
Schmidt Sting Pain Index
Hash table
Document Object Model
Gini [...]