Nice list of social data visualization sites, along with news of a new one, Verifiable:
The new website Verifiable is yet another contender in the now seemingly crowded social data visualization area, which include other free services like Many Eyes, Swivel, iCharts, Trendrr, Widgenie, Track-n-Graph and Timetric. The goal of Verifiable is to “democratize data” as it allows to easily upload data, visualize it, join it with other data, and allows “the world” to interact with it.
via Verifiable: Upload, Visualize and Share your Data Online - information aesthetics.
Photochaining: Leaving Camera Memory Cards in Public Places
via Photochaining.
Here are a couple of ways to tell which version of Ubuntu you’re running.
1. From the desktop, select System > About Ubuntu. Look at the top of the text for the sentence that starts, “Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu….” The rest of the sentence describes the version details. (This is broken on my system, which is why I ended up looking for other ways.)
2. From the desktop, select System > Administration > System Monitor. Click the “System” tab. This is comprehensive, and worked great.
3. From a terminal, use the command:
lsb_release -a
4. From a terminal, use the command:
cat /etc/issue
Related: To print the kernel version use the command:
uname -a
Clay Shirky does a beautiful job wrapping up where we are in the transition out of the age of newspapers, and into the age of new sorts of journalism in his blog post “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable“: chaos and revolution.
It’s wrenching and uncomfortable, because, well, “that is what real revolutions are like.”
You’ve probably seen this somewhere: ʇxǝʇ uʍop-ǝpısdn - upside-down text, rendered using carefully-chosen Unicode characters.
There are a number of web sites that will flip your text, but I wanted to point out the original: David Faden’s Flip. David got the idea from Philip Newton’s post, ¿ʇı̣ əsnqɐ ʇ,uɐɔ noʎ ɟı̣ əpoɔı̣un sı̣ pooɓ ʇɐɥʍ. Philip in turn credits the idea to Mark Shoulson and his post to the qalam group.
FileFormat.info has extended the mapping to include upper-case letters and some numbers: Unicode Upside-Down Mapping, which Marcel Grünauer included in Perl’s Text::UpsideDown.
If you’re drawing a face at an angle, it won’t look right unless the eyes are drawn well.
With Tento’s Eye Angle Library, Amy Reeder Hadley has created a reference chart of eyes sketched from 30 different angles, along with an in-depth description of the subtleties of the eye’s appearance in each view.
Here’s a framework for analyzing and evaluating an ecommerce retailer’s market strategy, the “ChannelAdvisor Ecommerce Framework” by Scot Wingo. Scot goes on to examine Zappos and ideeli as examples.
[The] five pillars of ecommerce that make up the CEF:
- Selection
- Value
- Ease of use
- Trust
- Merchandising
[F]or a retailer of any size to be successful, they need to decide what their strategy is for each of these areas, stick to the strategy and let buyers know what that strategy is. In many ways these decisions embody the retailers brand and how they are perceived by their customers.
from eBay Strategies: Episode II - Introducing the ChannelAdvisor Ecommerce Framework (CEF).
Especially of part of the screen, for quick uploading. Not comprehensive, just the top tools.
Mac OS X:
Linux (Ubuntu/Gnome):
- GIMP - File > Create > Screenshot (or File > Acquire > Screenshot)
- scrot
- import (ImageMagick)
Windows:
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