"Fresh data straight out of our uber warehouse: As the news breaks, scrobbles soar as people go to pay tribute to one of the greatest pop artists of all times." I really didn't want to talk about this story at all - but at least there's some interesting data about it. So have some data.

"it doesn’t sound particularly astounding on paper, but within a day it recommended to me a couple of albums i that was very excited about but had no idea they were forthcoming." Excellent stuff.

"The spreadsheet has an older, wiser cousin, and it is called database."