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: Fitts’s Law, Wikipedia the steering law is a predictive model of human movement, concerning the...
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I thought it would be kind of fun to create a random graph, using words from Twitter. So! Just head on over to: http://danzambonini.com/randomgraph/ and you’ll see a new random graph every hour (well, if you refresh the page every hour)! Please be warned: I don’t filter for swear words or other potentially nasty...
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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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Imagine a government that hasn’t updated its laws for thousands of years. That, in its manifesto, tells you it’s illegal to vote for another party. The same manifesto is so bizarre that party members have to explain which parts you should pay attention to, and which should be ignored. This government only provides pensions...
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I thought I’d take the ‘content curator’ discussion to the extreme by adding yet more noise, in the shape of lowest-form-of-wit: sarcasm. Here are some new definitions for you to start using. Content Physicist. Someone who understands how content moves through the environment of the web, and can extract rules/laws about how it does...
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Almost four weeks ago, I switched my personal blog (this very one) from Tumblr to WordPress, because I didn’t think Tumblr was particularly versatile or good for SEO. The graph above shows my search engine referrer numbers, by the week. I realise this isn’t a huge amount of evidence yet, but it would seem...
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Driving around Phoenix, you hear a lot of ‘classic’ 70s and 80s music, and the worst of modern music. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard Whitney Houston and Leona Lewis. Argh! Anyway, in my insanity, I decided to write a quick thing that converts and post on this site into diva...
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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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