Borked again
Hate it when that happens.
Google’s Street View comes to L.A.
Google Maps has introduced Street View for Los Angeles! Let the Easter egg hunt begin! This is where I am now.
News consumption graphs
Akamai has charts showing current online news consumption around the world. Peak in North America: 2.4 million visitors per minute. I’d say that’s enough audience to build a business model around.
(Thanks to Michael Owen for the link.)
Sudoku solver
Use this clever program to solve that sudoku that’s got you stumped. Or, with some trial and error, use it to create your own. Here’s my first attempt (click to enlarge and print):
Down with portals
News websites should aim to “build a network, not a destination,” inserting themselves “into the clickstream” whenever possible. Amen, Rich Gordon!
Daft patron? Don’t blame the bartender
Quote of the week from NPR’s Bob Garfield: “Editors are like bartenders, who must serve up what’s ordered provided they know when to say, ‘Sorry, bub, you’ve had enough.'” This explains why I like bars: They must remind me of newsrooms.
Something everyone working on the web should see
If after watching this you aren’t convinced that we’re living through the biggest revolution in the history of human communication… watch it again. 😉
Your personal annual report
Wow. This guy made an annual report, à la some Fortune 500 company, except it’s an annual report of his life. Scary, but it got me thinking: A lot of the data he uses to compile this is stuff we all amass — through airline tickets, credit card receipts, our iTunes playlists, etc. Is there an annual report in my future? Maybe, but I can’t imagine who else would want to read it.
latimes.com’s most searched-for people in 2006
Indulging my fascination with tag clouds and text mining, I dug through our traffic stats for 2006 to create a fun little visual representation of search terms used to find stories on latimes.com.