The rumblings over Facebook banning Robert Scoble have opened up all sorts of conversations about who owns or controls your data – see also: Data as currency. One issue that has been highlighted is how easy it is for people to scrape enough information about you to form an identity. Scoble was running an automated [...]
[Update: 28th Dec] Link updated as the author has moved the post. Google has been in the news over the past couple of days, introducing a feature that has upset a few people by opening up their ‘shared’ news items to everyone in their contacts list (as opposed to them notifying selected users to view [...]
IBM has released a web site called Many Eyes aimed at sharing data sets and visualisations of them. Looks interesting…
As a follow on to a previous post – Diluted information, this is a quick review of just two ideas within Stephen Few’s excellent book – Information Dashboard Design. Spark Lines Spark lines are an idea from Edward Tufte, author of books such as Envisioning Information. The concept of a spark line is simplicity itself [...]
It’s always funny when culture leads to misinterpreting a joke. Whilst chatting with someone during the SharePoint conference earlier this year, they muttered how BSM was an apt acronym for Business Scorecard Manager 2005. I wondered what on earth business scorecards had to do with the British School of Motoring before it dawned on me [...]
