So, it’s been over a year since I last posted here. For some reason the platform never quite clicked for me. I’ve been enjoying using Google+ (disclaimer, yes I work for Google) a lot more, sharing photos, links and thoughts there.
I’m not sure I’ll post here any more, but I’ll leave it up cause […]
Last November, my friend Jesper and I presented at Web 2.0 New York, a talk called Freeing and Visualizing Financial Data. I’ve been meaning to put up some of the visuals we made while looking through what was available.
Banks are required to publish a report each quarter called an “Analyst Transparency Report”. The report lists […]
For the past few months, between writing books and my day job, I’ve been working on a project with my friend Jesper called Freerisk.
A few months ago after we first heard Tim O’Reilly’s “Work on stuff that matters” speech, we started talking about what issues, besides the environmental concerns mentioned in his speech, were import […]
I’ve been toying with the idea of attempting “semantic integration” of a lot of personal data in my life. I’ll be sure to share more later, but so far I’ve managed to pull together my September phone records, my email history, my contacts, my calendar and my Facebook friends (via the API, not something sketchy!) […]
While I was at OSCON earlier this year, I did a 20 minute video interview with O’Reilly. I think the idea is to take a lot of interviews and edit them down to shorter segments for some kind of video supplement, but they’ve also posted the entire thing on Youtube.
I talk a little bit […]
(ok, I know that “excluded middle” has a specific meaning in philosophy and I’m using it incorrectly here, but I like the way it sounds)
A couple of months ago I read a book called A Semantic Web Primer, published by the MIT Press. It was recommended to me by my coworker Jamie, who said it […]
The other day my friend Jeff asked me if there was a way to “delay” email. We looked around for a service that would let us do this, but couldn’t really find anything. So I threw together snoozemail… it’s a couple of Python scripts and a cronjob, nothing fancy, but I thought it might be […]
A couple of people have asked me if I use Twitter.
For those interested, you can find me here. If you find it interesting, my updates are public, so you can follow me.
I can also be found on Friendfeed and Flickr.
If you’re sick of the proliferation of social media, feel free to ignore this…
I have a few talks coming up, if you’re planning to attend any of these events, be sure to drop me a line!
OSCON 2008: Data-mining Wikipedia and other semantically weak sources
Web 2.0 Expo New York: The ecosystem of business and social data
Web 2.0 Tokyo: Haven’t decided on a topic yet
A secret one that I’m not […]
I’ll be speaking at the Freebase User Group Meeting tomorrow evening, on the subject of “Business data in Freebase”. I’ll be showing how I’ve used data about public companies from the government and various other sources to populate Freebase and build cool interactive visualizations.
It’s being held at the Metaweb offices (New Montgomery and Howard, San […]
