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Web spreadsheets for humans and machines

Last week Kevin Curry dug into some data about school violence in his district. In this case the data was made available as HTML, which means it was sort-of-but-not-really published on the web. Kevin writes: Whenever I come across data like this the first thing I want to know is whether or not it can [...]

The network is the keyboard: Patterns of scalable communication

Last week Scott Hanselman summed up the principle of keystroke conservation like so: There are a finite number of keystrokes left in your hands before you die. Next time someone emails you, ask yourself “Is emailing this person back the best use of my remaining keystrokes?” Several of the comments on Scott’s post focused on [...]

The arrow of WordPress time

Wakened this morning, about three o’clock, by Mr. Griffin with a letter from Sir W. Coventry to W. Pen… So begins today’s installment of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, as rendered by Phil Gyford. It’s a remarkable project that maps January 1, 1660 (the start of Pepys’ famous diary) to January 1, 2003 (the start [...]