From mathbabe, to industry titans JESS3, to the iSchool‘s own Jaime Snyder, these blogs are a constant source of information, inspiration and education for me. I keep them stored in Google Reader making it easy to stay up to date with what is going on in the greater data and information community.
As a companion to my recent 86 tools post, this list of resources will quickly bring you up to speed on what is happening in the data world and get you going on your data-knowledge quest.
These blogs and sites are just the tip of the iceberg and I think I have a pretty good balance of information, data and visualization blogs.
Are there any you think I am missing?
Enjoy!
AIGA: Information Design
http://www.aiga.org/syndication/articles/clear.rss
http://www.aiga.org/interior.aspx?pageid=44&id=2149
blprnt.blg
http://blog.blprnt.com/feed
http://blog.blprnt.com
ChartsBin’s Latest updates
http://feed.chartsbin.com/ChartsbinLatest
http://chartsbin.com
CreativeApplications
http://feeds.feedburner.com/creativeapplicationsnet
http://www.creativeapplications.net
Data Visualization
http://blog.ffctn.com/rss.xml
http://blog.ffctn.com
Data Without Borders
http://datawithoutborders.cc/feed/
http://datawithoutborders.cc
Posted in Information.
Tagged with Abstraction, AIGA, Blog, Data analysis, Data mining, Data visualization, Design, Google Inc., Graphic design, Infographic Police, Infographics, Information graphics, Internet, Jaime Snyder, Jerome Cukier, Law/Crime, Science, Scientific modeling, Social information processing, Technology, Technology/Internet, Visualization.
By Josh Kitlas
– December 3, 2011
Slow
Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are great browsers – if you want a slow, bloated, and crash-prone web browsing experience. I grew tired of having my browser control my Internet experience and did a little snooping around in search of something better. Two that I came across and am currently testing are K-Meleon and Arora.
K-Meleon and Arora are two extremely lightweight browsers that SCREAM.
I was shocked at how much faster they perform than my old standby, Firefox. Mind you I am not using any sort of scientific method whatsoever, but it’s pretty clear these newbies are the winners in my decidedly unscientific tests. K-Meleon is Windows-only and Arora has a version for every system imaginable. I know these are 2 of many so if you know another, pass it on!
Continued…
Posted in Technology.
Tagged with ClickToFlash, Firefox, Gecko, GNU General Public License, K-Meleon, Microsoft Windows, Safari, WebKit.
By Josh Kitlas
– October 29, 2011
This has nothing to do with the post, but I like dogs. Image by Getty Images via @daylife
For the past couple months I have been hammered by SPAM user registrations, some weeks I was getting 10-15 a DAY. I tried several WordPress plugins without success. Then I came across SABRE – Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine and my fake user registration woes ended (I have had it installed for two weeks now).
If you are in need of help determining who is real and who is a robot or zombie, I cannot recommend it enough. It is free and French to boot (though it does come in English).
Continued…
Posted in Technology.
Tagged with Blog software, CAPTCHA, Computer security, Computing, Content management systems, Internet, IP address, JavaScript, PHP programming language, Registered user, SPAM, Technology/Internet, University of New Zealand, User (computing), Website, WHOIS, WordPress, World Wide Web.
By Josh Kitlas
– October 12, 2011
You want jobs? I have jobs! Especially if you are a librarian (I also have some for museum folk).
Despite all the doom and gloom surrounding libraries and their future, there are still a ton of jobs out there for public, academic and special libraries. I for one think there is a bit of a renaissance going on in libraryland and if you are a creative, dynamic LIS professional, you will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reinvent the librarian position and the institution itself.
The list I put together has mostly RSS feeds and a few job-site URLs. Some are geography specific, some are library specific, some general, and even one in French.
Good luck with your search and have at it!
- Denver Public Library Jobs – Website
- ACRL/NY Events and Jobs – RSS Feed
- Connecticut Library Jobs – RSS Feed – Website
- Library Jobline Postings – RSS Feed – Website
- LibWorm: Jobs – RSS Feed – Website Continued…
Posted in Future, Library.
Tagged with Education for librarianship, Employment, Librarian, Libraries, Library and Information Science, RSS, Sierra Nevada, Syndication and Feeds.
By Josh Kitlas
– October 9, 2011
One Large Network
If you haven’t checked out LinkedIn Labs, get on it! The site hosts a small set of projects and experimental features built by the employees of LinkedIn. They are billed as ‘low-maintenance’ experiments by the LinkedIn team, but they yield some very powerful help to the networker or job seeker. There are a number of really interesting tools that you can use such as:
- Integrating LinkedIn directly into Google Chrome
- Viewing your connections across the timeline of your career
- Getting your personalized LinkedIn Today headlines read to you on your mobile phone
- And many more…
I found Resume Builder, the Hackday Winner of March 2010 to be the most useful for me. You can “build, save & share beautifully formatted resumes based on your LinkedIn profile.” Providing you have a well defined LinkedIn profile, you will get some impressive results.
I was really interested in InMaps, which is classified as ‘LinkedIn Analytics‘ and enables you to “visualize your professional network, clustered in realtime based on their inter-relationships.” Unfortunately I was a very early adopter of LinkedIn and have been methodical about growing my connections and my network is now too large to be mapped. Cool idea though.
Posted in Design, Information, Technology.
Tagged with Business, Employment, Facebook, Google, Health, Information, Interesting, LinkedIn, Marketing, Social Media, Social network, Technology.
By Josh Kitlas
– October 6, 2011
