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Browsing the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:47:23 GMT

Words do not begin to describe the awesomeness.

Link: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Everymoment Now

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:21:10 GMT

Data about the 2008 election has never been more beautiful.

Link: http://everymomentnow.com/

Ambient Informatics

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:44:59 GMT

Link: http://www.ambientinformatics.org/

Scientists think they may have found the brain's "irrelevance" filter

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:53:01 GMT

Reminds me of the “Your nerd has built an annoyingly efficient relevancy engine in his head” section from The Nerd Handbook at Rands in Repose:

For any given piece of incoming information, your nerd is making a lightning fast assessment: relevant or not relevant? Relevance means that the incoming information fits into the system of things your nerd currently cares about. Expect active involvement from your nerd when you trip the relevance flag.

I wonder what happens when your irrelevance filter is set too high?

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7132829.stm

Everything is Miscellaneous - how the Web destroys categories, disciplines and hierarchies

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:41:24 GMT

A new book by David Weinberger.

Link: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/02/everything_is_miscel.html

Royksopp - Remind Me

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:19 GMT

I loved the use of infographics in this video when it came out a few years ago

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo0XUdPHdKA

Digg vs. Slashdot

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:13 GMT

I’ve been playing around with Digg lately and love it — here’s Kottke’s take on the diferences between being “dugg” and being “slashdotted”

Link: http://www.kottke.org/06/01/digg-vs-slashdot

The looming attention crisis

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:08 GMT

Supply and demand — having too much information means we don’t have the attention to go around

Link: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/11/the_looming_att.html