Ryan Carson on the Four-Day-Week challenge I’m jealous, but I don’t have time to get the stuff I want to get done in a five-day week. I’m often sprawling over weekends, as I will be this weekend in fact, and did last. Bloody knackering.
Tom Watson MP puts his letter of resignation on his weblog I’ve met Tom and I believe that he’s doing this for honourable reasons and that he honestly feels that Blair needs to go. I’m not sure I share those feelings, although I’m pretty clear that the authoritarian streak of the Labour party is creeping me out.
Marvel reverses labeling policy for gay characters This actually happened a week or so ago, so I apologise for clumsily referencing the labelling policy a couple of days ago without checking. Good news anyway.
“Online video vault YouTube is place to see and be seen” Medium-dull article features some less dull insights into why people do this kind of stuff in the first place from Clay Shirky, who – frankly – gets around a bit online…
Cabspotting I didn’t link to this at the time, and I’m mystified as to why I didn’t – beautiful and fascinating visualisations of cab paths around San Francisco
Suw Charman on how to speak at and organise conferences This is a good solid piece that I don’t think would necessarily please a lot of the people who think about these things. The gender thing is a particular community flashpoint.
Nat Torkington on ‘Rewarding Users for Contributing Data’ I couldn’t agree more with a lot of this – points-based reputation / prestige systems and financial incentives are generally bad ways to reward contributions in social environments.
Cameron Marlow talks about privacy, transparency and the Facebook controversy I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently and have come to the conclusion that it’s never so much about how private something is, it’s about how much it deviates from what people expected the privacy level to be in that particular service…
Regarding the travel time maps, that’s actually a concept that’s been around for some time, but seems to be re-thought of every so often! The proper name for them is “isochrones”.
If you wanted to know which areas in London are well connected, there’s a method that’s been developed using GIS where you can measure a 60-minute public transport travel time isochrone (which includes time for walking and waiting), then use census data to count how many people live or work within that isochrone – so, for example, about 3.35m people live within an hour of King’s Cross.
If you want to compare different places across the country, you’d take population density into account by comparing how many people are within 60 minutes to how many people are within a control distance such as a 20km radius, and then you’d get a percentage which would be higher for a location that can be reached by more people in that control catchment area.
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Regarding the travel time maps, that’s actually a concept that’s been around for some time, but seems to be re-thought of every so often! The proper name for them is “isochrones”.
If you wanted to know which areas in London are well connected, there’s a method that’s been developed using GIS where you can measure a 60-minute public transport travel time isochrone (which includes time for walking and waiting), then use census data to count how many people live or work within that isochrone – so, for example, about 3.35m people live within an hour of King’s Cross.
If you want to compare different places across the country, you’d take population density into account by comparing how many people are within 60 minutes to how many people are within a control distance such as a 20km radius, and then you’d get a percentage which would be higher for a location that can be reached by more people in that control catchment area.
Thanks ‚Äì glad you like the site! We have obviously been checking out the design of plasticbag.org for inspiration… 🙂 btw ‚Äì enjoyed your talk from Carson Workshops. btw2 ‚Äì caterina fake wanted us to meet with you when we were both over in San Francisco, however time (or rather the lack of it!) got in the way… Would be great to do it at another day! take care