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Two amazing examples of the power of good graphic presentation: Here's the most wonderful dynamic web-page chart showing the churning rise-and-fall of popularity in baby names, boy and girl, across 100 years. I don't know where the data's from -- wait, I do, it's from the Social Security Administration! -- but it's presented in a glorious interface (reminds me of Edward Tufte's beloved graphic of Napoleon's Russian campaign). Go, type your name in, see how the mighty monikers rise and fall on the waves of human fickleness! [link courtesy Steven Johnson]
Over at Flickr, there's this cool series of charts exploring the web of inter-relationships of users of that photo-sharing service. Interesting stuff for the online social anthropologists, but what I dig is the reflexivity: the study's offered up as just one more batch of Flickr images.
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Susannah Breslin, who once roamed these Salon Blog parts as the Reverse Cowgirl and then rode off into the sunset, is now writing a novel (titled Porn Happy) while blogging about writing the novel. Meanwhile, she is also posting the novel as a blog. Finally, she is looking for patrons to kick in some cash and support the project.
The Salon blogspace has been lucky to be associated with an amazing series of literary experiments, from Diego Doval's Plan B to the now-between-covers work of Real Live Preacher to the amazing saga of Julie/Julia, which we expect someday to read on paper. And no doubt many others I'm forgetting. Best of luck to Susannah.
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