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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Day: November 26, 2003

  • Hard to keep up to…

    A bit slow, but interesting: Search Engine Decoder. [via Emergic]

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  • How would you draw the…

    I just reviewed an illuminating re-think of mapping the California recall votes, thanks to a pointer from Jeffrey Veen. Wow. You can really lie better with pictures than numbers, if you want to. I visited the Exploratorium here in San Francisco yesterday, and smiled my way through various hands-on and eyes-on exhibits, several of which…

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  • It’s not enough to be…

    Just read this IBM developerWorks article about the poor state of documentation. Fair enough, but whining about it without providing more specific examples, for real-world products, isn’t tremendously helpful. (I rarely write documentation, but I have done some for internal tools.) The only tip to improve the process was on indexing. Want to make a…

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