According to a relatively recent New York Times article, only 7.4 million of the 133 million blogs tracked by the blog search engine Technorati have been updated in the last 120 days. This blog has become perilously close to falling into that neglected 95%, as my last post is dated February 18th, 2009 (although to [...]
Since the Olympics, my blogging has been sparse. This seems silly given how much time I spend each day essentially talking out ideas with myself. Why don’t I record some of these monologues on the internet? Contributing factors appear to include an innate inability to keep to a schedule, as well as a deep-seated apprehension [...]
The scores of people who read this blog no doubt noticed that I’ve now gone well over two whole weeks without a post. Truly a tragedy. Now that the semester is (almost) over, I won’t let it happen again (I’m going to shoot for a post every other day, so stay alert google).
As I mentioned [...]
Today, after months of careful planning, I find myself at SXSW interactive in Austin. It’s a bit like spring break for web 2.0 demographic, plus its the same week as the SXSW film and music festivals, which arguably draws an even more fun-loving crowd. Since the opening remarks is providing me my first opportunity [...]
Last month I was delighted to announce that Passive-Aggressive Notes is a finalist in the SXSW 2008 Web Awards’ blog category. This in turn makes us eligible for the coveted People’s Choice Award, so if you’re a person, don’t let this opportunity for voting pass you by.
This month it is my truly unexpected pleasure to [...]
Passive-Aggressive Notes is a finalist in the SXSW Interactive Web Awards‘ prestigious “blog” category. The winner of each category will be announced at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin on March 9th, and yes internets, yours truly will be in attendance. In the meantime, I’ll be hard at work making passiveaggressivenotes.com extra super awesome (suggestions [...]
Yesterday it was brought to my attention that a fellow contributor to the Providence Daily Dose decided to post a passive-aggressive e-mail she received after mentioning passiveaggressivenotes.com (a blog I help run). You know your life is really coming together when a friend informs you that one blog you work on randomly mentioned a second [...]
If you’re reading this, you may well be one of the tens of people who visit this blog each and every day (although technically I don’t know how many people visit this blog EACH day, google analytics only tells me how many unique visitors come here on any given day). If you are one of [...]
Both Tyler Cowen and Steven Levitt have posted a link to this article which features the following animation/optical illusion. They both seem a little taken aback, so here’s a quick explanation.
The spinning silhouette is a parallel projection of a twirling dance. Since the it’s not a perspective projection, her limbs do not get larger when [...]
You know how this blog is positively inundated with posts about Providence? It turns out I now have a second venue for my Providence-related musings. Some friends of mine recently started the Providence Daily Dose (think Gothamist for Providence). Sensing that their site is the dose of bloggie goodness Providence’s urban revival so desperately needs, [...]