David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Apps for America Winner: Mapping Gov’t Data Mashups Reveals Hidden Insights
The "Apps for America" contest was won by this addictive little toy, called DataMasher. It allows you to access U.S. government statistics, establish a correlation between the two, and then map out the incidence of that statistic across a map of the United...
Violet Sky Over LACMA
Violet Sky Over LACMA, originally uploaded by Wordyeti.
Paid Content Roundup Aug. 31-Sept. 4: The P-G is the 1st Penguin in the Water, 3 Wolf Moon and 10 Lies
This week the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes the paid content plunge (or do they...?), the Top 10 Lies being told in newspaper executives suites are revealed, Information Architects graphs out exactly what content can be sold online and to whom, and an entrepreneur...
“True Blood” and My Lawn At Night
This looks like something out of “True Blood” – the part where there’s been some devil-worshipping sacrifice and the whole lawn is tinged with red after some poor sweaty schlub got chucked into the wood chipper.
That Bloody Sky
Revisit’st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? --Hamlet Act 1 Sc.4.39
Free vs. Paid: Is Data Oil? (and if so, how can I get the stain out of my hard drive… )
My take: If you want to know what people will pay for, ask them why they start hitting the # or 0 buttons the second they hear a recorded voice when they call customer support. Interesting thesis by Gerd Leonhard about what the viable models for monetizing content...