I’ve released a first version of my diggstats project. Diggstats reports on the health of digg.com using the digg API, and some interesting logic I wrote which makes an educated guess at which stories are buried, thus allowing me to report the number of buried stories within a given time period.
The graph shown above is live data, but there’s much more to look at within the diggstats pages.
I’ve got other neat plans for what to do with the data I collect to generate these stats (trust me, the underlying framework is doing a lot more than the two fourteen current graphs would have you believe), but those pages aren’t ready just yet.
The graphs in diggstats are generated with XML/SWF Charts, a really slick graphing tool which can be used with nearly anything that can generate custom xml.
Although I feel Blogging Heroes tagline is total hyperbole, “Interviews with 30 of the world’s top bloggers”, it’s prudent to point out that it’ll be available on December 10th. How I ended up on that list, I have no idea.
I’m definitely looking forward to reading the interviews with Gina Trapani, Mark Fraudenfelder, Chris Anderson and Mary Jo Foley.
Oh, and having seen the draft of my interview already, I’m going to go ahead and apologize to Ray Beckerman. I mentioned you correctly, but they misspelled your name. Hey, at least they got your link correct.
The book’s publisher, Wiley, has been incredibly cool in allowing each blogger featured to freely share a pdf of their chapter. Here’s mine.
The first of many Squadcasts to come from the fine folks at Download Squad. Big thanks to Christina Warren for co-hosting with me, and to Brad Linder for agreeing to do the speakerphone interview at the last minute. Super big thanks go to Victor Agreda for sticking by this project in the darkest days, when it seemed like we’d never, ever get an episode out the door.
I was digging through archives of my blog, and my writing in general, and came across this, which I think a period piece gem. It may be a little naive. but weren’t we all a little naive at the time?
“We are the children of technology. We are the ones who vaguely remember a day before compact discs but cannot remember what we ever did without them. We are the ones who for reasons of necessity learned a platform is what you make of it. We are the children of Pac-Man and Wargames and TRON and video arcades. We lived fantasy while there was nothing else. We wished it so hard that, one day, it just came true.”
p.s. If my mention of Sakura had your mouth watering for authentic and traditional sushi style, look elsewhere. The once shinning star of east cobb eateries has been taken over by the Asian-fusion cuisine mafia. It’s still good sushi; Only now with hip names and hipper prices. My advice? Don’t bother.
I’m having one of those rare mornings where I reach the bottom of my first cup of coffee only to find I want more. In a cruel twist of fate, the coffee in this building could only be described as “good” if served during wartime, in a foxhole with a raging battle taking place just 10 feet away. Under those conditions, you might find yourself saying, “Hey, given the circumstances, this is pretty good coffee!”
Under these circumstances; with the benefit of filtered water, and a lack of gunfire, the only appropriate reaction to our localized version of coffee is; wincing.
I got a chance to take some good photos of my Miata; clean and in magic hour light. Headed to the mountains tomorrow with agent S. to cover those gorgeous wheels in brake dust, and seek the elusive roadside diner. Viva la roadster.
Stress and a weak resolve have conspired to result in an abortive attempt at smoking cessation. I made it almost three days, sigh. We’ll try this again on Sunday.
