Crayola Colour Chart, 1903-2010. Apparently the number of colours doubles every 28 years!
Yes, I added a couple of u’s in. So sue me.
Crayola Colour Chart, 1903-2010. Apparently the number of colours doubles every 28 years!
Yes, I added a couple of u’s in. So sue me.
Dads love creating wish lists.
“What’s in a Hashtag? Content based Prediction of the Spread of Ideas in Microblogging Communities”
Current social media research mainly focuses on temporal trends of the information ow and on the topology of the social graph that facilitates the propagation of information. In this paper we study the e
The Guardian’s Data Journalism workflow.
Err… so which is it to be, The Telegraph?
A wise person recently told me that, statistically, a person is more likely to die in an aeroplane crash than click on a banner ad. As I’m writing this month’s column on a long-haul flight to San Francisco, this is something I’m hoping not to be true.
It is the case that display ads are woefully ineffective - just witness the average CTR of a banner ad: 0.2% in 2012 (down from 9% in 2000). Indeed, the death of display advertising has been declared so many times, it’s astonishing it still has a pulse.
Indiscriminate sharing is a bad idea. A large social network isn’t the best way to find information. We need to go back to smaller communities. Where people aren’t lost in the mediocre averages of large networks. That’s where ideas flourish.
Big moment for Tumblr…
Getting ready for the Correspondents’ Dinner.
Watch it live tonight at 10 p.m. ET on http://wh.gov/live
Slight update to Tumblr’s archive pages - you now get the option to Follow (or join Tumblr) direct. I usually check out a user’s archive before deciding to follow - could make sense to make your archive link a bit more prominent…
Here’s a dry (but useful) post detailing the method I use to create slide decks - a simple flow that means you can focus entirely on structure up front before worrying about formatting (always a killer when you’re on a tight deadline).
Here it is:
# Section Header
- Slide 1 Header
— Slide 1 Bullet 1
— Slide 1 Bullet 2
- Slide 2 Header
— Slide 2 Bullet 1
— Slide 2 Bullet 2
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