I lingered outside the 11 Spring St graffiti show for a little bit today. It was created in part by the Wooster Collective. I wanted to go in, but the line was 3+ hours long. Bummer.
Here is my Flickr set for the exterior. I got a couple really good [...]

I put the Hype Machine widget on my blog today in the left sidebar. It’s a list of the latest MP3 sucked in by the Hype Machine. It’s incredibly fresh and completely unrelated in genre.
Click on something you have never heard of and surprise yourself. I have been listening to this “recent [...]

The VentureBeat article on the FF class of stock captured my attention. From Matt Marshall’s post:
[FF Class stock is] for founders who want to cash out a small percentage of their stake in a company so they don’t have to wait until the company is sold or goes public.
I don’t pretend to be an expert [...]

I feel vulnerable to data loss via hard drive crash or laptop theft. I have no automatic backup solution in place. Once a month I drag my important, local work files over to the file server, but that’s it!
My hosting provider, Dreamhost, gives me 200 gigs of online storage accessible via SFTP. [...]

Tara over at HorsePigCow just converted to Wordpress. First of all, congrats and great call, but that’s not the point of this post. The point is Tara couldn’t have done it without the help of a HorsePigCow fan and Wordpress evangelist techie named Adam who reached out to Tara through her blog. [...]

The new Google Finance upgrade is spot on. I love the new visualizations for sector performance. I don’t know if its innovative enough to make it in the information aesthetics blog, but it’s an incredibly dense source of information in a very small amount of screen real-estate. Here’s a screenshot of what [...]

The NYTimes has a summary piece on the rise of user-generated content in 2006. Jon Pareles, the author of the article, is guilty of generalizations and over-simplification of what I consider to be nuanced behavior, but one piece of the article really rang true for me. Jon discusses a problem that is intrinsic [...]

I am interested in looking at technology through the lens of humanizing or dehumanizing a process, action, goal or algorithm. Human computation is often the center of these thoughts. A few examples: a CAPTCHA is humanized authentication. Click-to-dial and live chat on e-commerce sites is a humanizing touch in the e-commerce conversion process. [...]

Fred Destin has a post on his blog about the value of a Unique Monthly Visitor (UMV) at various sites:
The Value of a Unique Monthly Visitor by site around Q2-Q3 2006:

YouTube $23
CNET $16
MySpace as valued by the Google ad deal: $11.25
Facebook at 1bn: $67
Google: $272 !
Yahoo $48

Read the rest of Fred Destin’s article to see [...]