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 [...]
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Charticle Theory
06 May 2008
(FFFFOUND) Top interface tags on Datamob usa 26 (52%) government 23 (46%) maps 14 (28%) language 7 (14%) business 7 (14%) Standards-based bar chart via Wilson Miner. Recent blips: interactive Voronoi treemaps, basketball data visualizations, Watchdog.net. Datamob-compliant APIs: MAPLight, GovTracker, AMEE, Project Vote Smart, Civic Footprint. Coffee table: The Alphabet Abecedarium, Mashups, Miscellany.
Glosses Through the Ages
17 Apr 2008
“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
07 Apr 2008
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
27 Mar 2008
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 [...]
The Paper Version of the Web
17 Mar 2008
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
07 Mar 2008
#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 [...]
Five Websites That Might Possibly Change the World
18 Jan 2008
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 [...]
