Baltimore Block Blog Stats

Just like we all used to competitively monitor our myspace visitor count, pre-Facebook addiction, vanity leads us to glance every now and then at the Baltimore Block visitor stats helpfully provided by WordPress. The stats also show how visitors found your blog–by google or referring sites that blogroll or link to you in posts (thanks, [...]

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India Blogs

One of the most fun winter weekends I spent this year was inside a North Carolina biotech facility [cue geeky snort]. The Science Blogging conference in Research Triangle Park was one of those rare meetings-of-minds where you shovel in ideas faster than the barbecue chicken served at dinner. Participants were either bloggers, researchers, journalists, or advocates, and [...]

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Find yourself

I got this fun link from a co-worker: http://dna.imagini.net/friends.  You answer questions with visual media, and then it tells you what kind of person you are.  I think mine was pretty spot-on.  And you can also do similar ones where you answer questions about what you wish for, or what love is to find out [...]

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Diagram and discuss: Pearl Jam

This is what CultureGraph does with Pearl Jam

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Data and lyrics

Forget music and lyrics…I want something visual to represent my listening selections.  Enter CultureGraph.  Who is Billie Jean?  Is she NOT my lover…just a girl?  Well then, according to the flowchart, she’s also someone who says that I am the one.     

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They know who we are!

At work, I heard about Claritas.  They supply the US government with audience segmentation info on the US population, broken down by zip code.  According to their PRIZM NE segmentation system, we of the Calvert Block are most likely to be part of the “Bohemian Mix” pictured above.  We are a collection of liberal, mobile, early-adopter urbanites [...]

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Words from the beyond

Anyone doing something particularly dangerous sometime soon?  You can set up an email to go out to the rest of us, just in case you die.  Maybe you’re worried about your west coast hamburger tour turning into a salmonella-fest.  Maybe you fear the sharks lurking in Hawaii’s inviting waters.  Perhaps you stay up at night fearing [...]

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Wear the block on your sleeve

People wear their heart on their sleeve, so why not wear our block?  I was reading a TrendWatch brief about companies using their customers to create “status stories” and saw this new Dutch fashion company is making techy t-shirts.  You point your phone at this logo on the shirt and it opens up a site on your [...]

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Internet, slightly redfined

Hey- so I think this has been out for a while and I’m just late to hear.  But there’s this new web browser called Flock.  It’s a web browser built for the socially connected.  The virtually soially connected, anyways.  It basically let you share stuff you are looking at with people in your social network sites [...]

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See that cold coming from a mile away

If you want to know where the bugs are, there’s this google maps mash-up I found that plots sickness on maps.  Warning: you can run, but you can’t hide!  The cold will get you someday no matter how hard you try to avoid it.

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