August 2008
12 posts
Olympic Medal Table Bias
Now that the spectacular events in Beijing have drawn to a close, I’ve been looking at the final medal tables and how different news sites are representing them.
There’s something suspicious about the sorting order. The official table ranks by gold medal count (but includes a rank by total medals), putting China in first place. This method is also used by the relatively neutral...
Lost and Found 2.0 →
The power of a social network — a lost camera is found and returned to its owner.
An Event Apart Blogged →
Jeremy Keith has very sportingly blogged (live) the first day’s sessions at the currently running An Event Apart — the conference for people who make websites.
A Bizarre Attack on Fire Eagle
The BBC ran an article today voicing the concerns of a couple of privacy groups over Yahoo’s Fire Eagle.
I’d love to know whether the director at the Centre for Digital Democracy actually used the service before declaring that sites like Fire Eagle are “building and collecting more data, not just about the content you like but where you go and where you are at the moment.”...
WatchEndanged indigenous cultures, and the extreme diversity of their realities.
Bubble Calendar →
A brilliant idea, but I think I’d struggle to resist popping a whole month away on a whim.
NY Times Olympic Medal Count Map →
Beautifully produced visualisation of olympic medal counts by nation, per olympiad. Plenty of trends to spot, such as the increasing diversity of nations scoring medal wins, and the enourmous effect of the home advatange. See also the 2008 games tracker from the same masterful interactive design team.
This Redesign, Thing
Following in the footsteps of many others, I’m now aggregating activity from a number of websites I use into one chronologically ordered stream as you see here. Such systems are colloquially referred to as lifestreams.
Rather than use a hosted lifestream service such as friendfeed or socialthing, I decided I wanted more control over design and functionality so I’ve written an...
Watchvisualisations of various forms of traffic in Britain
WatchDelicious redesign: before/after, animated