Stack Overflow was set up by two successful high-profile businessmen, attracts over 7 million unique visitors a month, and has received $6 million in funding. So I found it a little jarring when I visited the site to see this: My eyes puked from the motion sickness of not-knowing-where-to-look-oh-my-god-everything-is-everywhere-ness of the page. It’s a...
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The number of real Twitter followers you have matters. And using borderline-spammy techniques to get those followers works too. I run a blog called Amorphous Blog, which has a Twitter account at @amorphousblog. I spend quite a lot of time researching and writing posts for the blog (often hours at a time), so at the...
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This is my home on the web, but I run (or contribute to) a number of other blogs that you may or may not know about. For the sake of self-promotion, you might want to check these out and subscribe to the RSS feeds! (I’m currently obsessed with FeedBurner stats.) The Januarist (RSS, @thejanuarist)...
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Fitts’s law is a model of human movement in human-computer interaction and ergonomics which predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the distance to and the size of the target. From:Â Fitts’s Law, Wikipedia the steering law is a predictive model of human movement, concerning the...
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The Boundless Wolf theorem states that if you give a wolf a Moleskine and a Sharpie it will eventually recreate Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man. (Source Image: Gray Wolf on Flickr)
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I was going to write an introduction about how I don’t think that Twitter follower numbers are particularly important, but how/why I wrote this script anyway. But, to be honest, if you have a practical ethical use for this, that’s all I care about – who cares why I wrote it in the first...
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Just something I’ve been thinking about lately. Most bands, early in their career, would benefit from being sampled by a reputable artist (say, Girl Talk). If you were in a new band, and Girl Talk sampled you, you’d be pretty happy, right? When does this emotion change, from happiness (gaining attention) to anger (having...
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Right now, if you search Google for “Register of members interests”, to find out what MPs are being paid by commercial companies, the first result, to the parliament.gov register page, returns a 404. Dodgy? I blame Cameron!
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