My piece about Japanese whaling chief Hideki Moronuki is generating some interesting discussion. I’ve just posted a long comment. Worth a read, even if it’s not about Heath Ledger. Oh, and you can always subscribe to the comments feed to ensure you don’t miss any of the action.
Heath Ledger spikes my website, Day 1
Further to this morning’s post about The Heath Ledger Experiment, here’s a graph of my website traffic so far this month.
As you can see, traffic roughly tripled yesterday after my little game. The data for today is only for midnight to roughly 4am, so that’s why it’s so low.
The increase in traffic from 15 January is due to Corey Worthington Delaney. Most of that is to the page Corey Delaney, freedom fighter (for the right to party), even though I’m much happier with Arrest of “teen party host†highlights stupidity of law.
What sort of weird psychology is this?
Every time I try to type “Heath Ledger” it comes out “Heather Ledger”. Why is that?
The Bulletin closes after 128 years
The Bulletin magazine is no more. After 128 years, this agenda-setting weekly has just published its last issue. The Bulletin‘s fate was “somehow symptomatic” of the impact of the Internet on news magazines, says the publisher. I reckon it’s more about failing to publish information and commentary that you couldn’t find elsewhere. Apart from The Sphere of Influence, that is. Who needs yet more movie and wine reviews?
Your career as a “Timeline of Understanding”
My good friend and colleague Zern Liew has updated the website for his business, Eicolab. It’s glorious. And one of the most glorious parts is this visually stunning timeline of his career — presented not as a list of employers and projects, but as a record of his evolving professional thoughts.
If you click through to the full-size graphic, you’ll see how it begins in 1998 with observations like “Flash is bad” and variations on “Appropriate technology” through to current observations like “markets are conversations” and “business is personal” — things I happen to agree on.
What would your career look like in this format? What were the observations, tools and guiding principles which shaped your career path?
Lessons from tacky Heath Ledger jokes, Day 1
[Update 30 January 2008: More analysis of this has been posted since this article was written. Look for items tagged “heath ledger”.]
Just 24 hours ago, actor Heath Ledger died. Before most people even knew he was dead, I’d set up a web page asking for jokes about his death and I placed an advertisement (pictured) on Google. Tasteless. But there was a porpoise. This was Science!
Here’s what I’ve learned so far. If you have any questions as you read this, please ask them. I’ll be exploring the data more deeply over the next few days.
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