Spiritual Programming

Programming towards enlightenment.

Susan Crawford blog :: Moving Slowly in the Fast Lane

Ver persuasive argument to take a hard look at why USA is lagging behing almost every country in high speed internet and communications.
No surprise that the culprits are the big telecom monoplies AT&T etc..

Many Americans don’t have a choice of highspeed providers, and, as Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, Free Press, Media Access Project, and U.S. Public Interest Group recently told the FCC, “Americans pay 10 to 20 times as much [as people do in other countries] for far less service.” The duopoly is something like Shamu and Godzilla on hire for televised wrestling – giant beasts gently swatting at one another for the cameras. They aren’t competing, these giants. There is a clear failure in the market for highspeed internet access in this country...

Susan Crawford blog :: Moving Slowly in the Fast Lane

I hope you dont forget Mike Gravel.

Official Google Blog: Presidential campaign trail winds through the Googleplex

Interesting to see some big names but lets not forget Mike Gravel, who is possibly the most straight talking, honest and down to earth human, making others look like mutants. Anyways, the main reason I'm bringing up Gravel is that he is where he is now thanks to youtube and google. If you look at number of search queries for Mike Gravel after the last debate, you'd find that it outnumbered all others combined.
Google is enabling democracy in ways never possible before and it should not only own it but encourage it by highlighting it as a case success story.
Anyways, Google, just invite him - you'd probably have to fork out a bus ticket, which I'm sure you can afford.

Data Visualization Search Engine

I have created a custom search engine for data visualization related information.dsfsdfa





Data Visualization Search Engine




Take it for a spin and if possible contribute relevant links and resources.

Google snaps Trendalyzer

I have been waiting for this kind of thing for years now, but this is certainly not the end.
Here's the official announcement. Google is slowly moving towards really making sense of all the informaion available on the internet. I'd like to see a change in the home page itself where the page results are shown in the context of the data. Its already happening in bits ( e.g. typing in an address shows a google map ) but you still get a standard list of links for most queries. I guess we are quite a ways from a google as a dynamic visualization tool making sense of all this data, but its one step closer.

Inside Google Book Search: Earth viewed from books

Inside Google Book Search: Earth viewed from books

Very ingenious use of data.

The Earth viewed from books, where individual mentions of locations in books combine to yield another interpretation of the globe. The intensity of each pixel is proportional to the number of times the location at a given set of coordinates is mentioned across all of the books in Google Books Search.

Java job posting per state graph

I just started using Swivel and here's my first graph:



The data is from dice.com.