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Oct 07 2009 ∞

This ad has been up at Oxford Circus (central line) for months. I’m not even sure what Aldo sell, possibly false feet for people with severed shins. Anyway, I always think how the girl has a very gummy smile for a model. And then I think about how pretty she is. Huh.

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Oct 05 2009 ∞

This is a data visualisation that’s projected onto a blank wall in the Sony Music UK office.
It shows the volume of Tweets for each Sony artist over the last 24hrs (updated hourly on a rolling basis).

It’s a pretty crappy lo-res video obviously, but that’s the best my Android phone could manage.

I like it. It’s an attempt to get people to think about metrics other than unit sales. Quite interesting building the search queries for each artist- it’s easy to get data contamination for any band names which are relatively generic terms. Eg, we had to exclude ‘The Script’ altogether because there were too many tweets about the script of show x, film y, etc. Gossip ranked high until we filtered out all instances of ‘gossip girl’. And Slayer came in high until we filtered for ‘buffy’…

Commissioned by me, designed and built by Kleber

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Oct 02 2009 ∞

Your tweet data visualised...

Nice mechanic at xefer.com which uses Yahoo Pipes and Google’s Chart API to plot the daily & hourly frequency of your tweeting habits.

I don’t really use Twitter so it doesn’t paint a particularly interested picture for me, but everyone else seems to so I guess this is like a public service announcement. For people who like graphs.

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Urban street animals invade Google’s CAPTCHA system.

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Sep 21 2009 ∞

My flat was burgled last week, and the items stolen included my laptop.

I just checked my last.fm profile, and found 3 tracks that were scrobbled by someone other than me. On Saturday evening. Presumably using my iTunes or Spotify account, both of which scrobble to last.fm

So, I now know I was burgled by a Prodigy fan. And that my laptop hasn’t been wiped yet. I wonder last.fm have enough data on those scrobbles to track down the burglar.

nb, I take full responsibility for the Martika and Then Jerico tracks :)

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Sep 19 2009 ∞

Fantasic response from a Holyhead branch of Tesco to the founder of the Jedi religion, a 23yr old welsh kid who felt he was being discrimated against by being asked to remove his hood whilst instore.

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Sep 18 2009 ∞