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- Wii searches favored by high unemployment U.S states, Xbox 360 by obese, PS3 by same sex couplesYesterday
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The StateStats mashup displays Google query results by popularity in U.S states self describing as:
It then compares this ranking with other ways of ranking states, like average income or population density, using Spearman’s rank correlation. The middle column shows the results of these comparisons, with the strongest correlations listed first.
Google Insight For Search provides the raw search activity from 2004-present, the Google Chart API for the state heatmap and runs under the Google App Engine.
The service points out in its description in bold that one must be careful drawing conclusions from this data. With that in mind I put this post and you should the title of this post tongue-in-cheek in the humor category.
Comparing the console gaming systems: Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3
Couldn’t resist running some comparative queries across the various game consoles in order of sales: Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and finally the Sony PS3. Why video games? In
- Police still scanning Wal-Mart video trying to see if they can file criminal charges in tramplingYesterday
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The Black Friday Wal-Mart trampling incident of security guard Jdimytai Damour has predictably led to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the victim’s sister. Police indicate in this AP video (embed below) that they are still scanning the Wal-Mart security videos looking if they can find people in the crowd criminally responsible.
Geek sidenote: YouTube has started prominently pushing their search as 10% of the size of their video window placed at the top. It’s too bad they aren’t using some of that space to show me related videos.
I can’t be the only one impatient that six days have passed by and the police are still scanning security video? How long does it take to say "we scanned the video and we have suspects in our sights?" Get some CSI types to analyze that footage frame by frame and get the still pictures out America’s Most Wanted style so these people tramplers can be brought in and charged accordingly.
Where are these people anyway?
If you were in the front of the line of a crowd that went crazy when the doors opened what would you have done? Tried to help the security guards maintain order or rushed in for some stupid thing that will never come close to measure human life
- 5 wish list items that would improve Zemanta service and their Windows Live Writer pluginDecember 3
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After the last post on automated related links in posts I mentioned liking the relevancy provided by the Zemanta service and promised to check into the service in greater detail. Bonus: Andraz the Zemanta CTO stopped by in the comment section and answered a few questions which piqued my curiosity further. I like seeing company executives and reps out responding to blog posts, being transparent about their service. Andraz promised more features were on the way as backed up by the active Zemanta GetSatisfaction page. I’m guessing he’ll dig the info in this post for his team which is loaded with wish list items to make Zemanta a killer application.
Important note: the spam category placement is not intended to imply that I think Zemanta in any way spams anybody, rather I’ve noticed their service is being used by some spam blogs and splogs. There are lots of legitimate tools that are being abused/used by spammers, this is not meant to be nor should it be construed as condemnation of the Zemanta service.
- Why automating related post links on other sites can be high riskDecember 1
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This morning Jason Falls shared his thoughts about linking effectively and where to find good sources to link (emphasis mine):
That said, while you’ll get more blog exposure and promotion by linking to other blogs, you’d be foolish not to link to traditional websites or news outlets that also contain good content. Some bloggers are unnecessarily self-righteous when it comes to traditional news outlets and think there’s better content to be had in the blogosphere. Frankly, they’re short-sighted. Some blogs offer great insight and context. Most traditional media outlets do.
Jason closes an insightful post asking for link habits and tricks learned from others but then, as (too many?) other bloggers are doing out there, uses the automated Zemanta related external links plugin and closes with a link to Sphere related links (machine 2X).
I’m curious, did he choose any of these links or let the machine choose all for him?1 If he didn’t vet these links, I’m wondering why he uses these services? He writes a post about the importance of finding good links and then ends the post by letting some third party software choose what links on other websites are related to his post for his readers?
Or is the message: follow what’s in the post body and ignore what follows? If so, too many blogs are like that these days.
- Music videogame shopping guideNovember 29
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Thought it would be useful for other music game fans to create a collection of the various music videogames available already or soon. If you’re shopping for a music game fan, this collection might come in handy as well. This post is dynamic and should be considered a work in progress as new titles get added and additional details are provided (probably should have made it a page instead of a post, but oh well). If you want to add titles this collection is missing feel free to use the comments area below.
Xbox 360 [14 games]
- Lips [Xbox.com] - buy from Amazon
Suggested retail: $69.99 with two wireless microphones
Features: sing along with songs in MP3 format on your Zune (no lyrics)Release date: available now
- Guitar Hero World Tour [Xbox.com] -
- Lips [Xbox.com] - buy from Amazon
