Month: January 2010

  • 5K Results Reimagined

    This graph shows and is sorted by the relative times for each runner on the left, their relative age on the right, and their gender by color. It seems to show that on average, men ran the race faster than women. This graph below is the same data, but sorted by the participants’ age. Image…

  • Why You Should Try Twitter

    Twitter isn’t for everyone. A lot has been written about it’s slowing growth, but part of that is because the stats don’t include 3rd party apps. Still, I think Twitter has limited appeal depending on what you want to get out of your time online. For most people, facebook does everything they’d want a social…

  • Smiley Man Owen

    Jeanne took this awesome picture of Owen today.

  • Tufteized the Charts

    Over at my Conveyor Blog I made a post about some charts I updated at work based on a book I read by Edward Tufte, the Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

  • Robot Dance Party

    Sasha and I tried to film a Robot Dance Party. I’d call it a partial success.

  • Opt In, Relevancy, and Marketing on Trust

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about marketing for two reasons. 1. I’m trying to figure out the best way to grow our business. 2. I just joined the board of directors of our industry trade organization, whose primary focus is putting on a yearly trade show. Do traditional marketing campaigns (ads, trade shows, mailings,…

  • Twitter Tip: Use Favorites as Bookmarks

    The most neglected feature of Twitter has to be favorites. It’s not used for much and none of the clients do anything interesting with them. Unlike Facebook’s “like,” categorizing a tweet as a “favorite” seems like a big commitment and the new Retweet features seem to support the concept better anyway. So what do you…

  • Famous Missions Review

    A mad bomber has planted a device in the building and you have to put together a team of experts to find the bomb and dismantle it. Do you call the bomb squad? A SWAT team? No, you call Gene Simmons, Mr T, and Albert Einstein. Famous Missions by Jason Tagmire is a new card…

  • Hello 2010

    So for future record I’d like to post some personal goals for 2010. I was never into resolutions before, but that was because I had the time to do all the things I wanted to do. Now I have so much going on it is difficult to make time for higher altitude goals, and by…