Backup data to paper. Clever stuff.

"This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time."

A new data mapping thingy by MySociety.org.

"Flavonoid is a little device that’s used to capture your physical movement and translate that into digital data." It's essentially a cleverer pedometer. Want one. Or a future one with GPS too, that would constantly upload info to somewhere handy, so I could parse it and pass it on to Daytum, Fire Eagle, &c. or ping my friends with pertinent information ("Jack is already in the pub, tapping his fingers impatiently"). An iPhone could do this sort of thing if only it allowed apps to run in the background.

Create databases, visualisations.

Scrape sites, convert data to a variety of formats. No coding required.

Evernote's developers seem weirdly resistant to providing a feature that every sane user must want: export. The current proprietary XML format fudge doesn't count - if I put a text file or image into Evernote, I should be able to get a text file or image out (they have a point about the difficulty of exporting mixed notes, containing images, text and audio in multiple formats, of course). To be honest, I'm more annoyed with myself than Evernote. If I'd checked to see how they handled export, I never would've started using the app in the first place, so it's by own fault I'll now have to laboriously cut and paste all my notes if I want to keep them safe.

I'm a bit of a backup loon (SuperDuper! nightly clone and Time Machine to different external drives + Subversion + .Mac + all text files backed up to a thumb drive I carry everywhere with me) so the Drobo looks very tempting for an added layer of safety.

£20 a month for 1.8Mbps mobile broadband, including Hotspot access. Not bad, given that I spent more than £30 on Wifi last month (thank you, tightwad hotels).

A life in pie charts.

Great interview with Andrew Vande Moere (the man behind infosthetics.com).

'A TouchGraph applet of the foaf:knows data from the BBC Programme Catalogue.'

"Can you set up a Mac so that if it is stolen, you can easily erase the contents of its hard drive from a remote location if the stolen Mac is connected to the internet? Answer: Absolutely!"

Data visualisation weblog. Fascinating stuff.

"Network analysis of the Flickr population, based on data collected on January 8th, 2005, and some additional analyses." - ie. cool graphs 'n' charts 'n' stuff

Nice visualisation of baby-naming statistics

Various works