The Authentic Eccentric

Ethan Zuckerman has a great post up on Visualizing Social Networks via Excel, and shares some interesting behavioral patterns for Usenet technical support via Microsoft Research.
The findings identified some key behavioral patterns in participants:
Rather than analyzing the content of these newsgroups (hard to do, as they’re huge), Smith and his team looked at structures. [...]

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Via Autism Vox, a great story about Matthew Morreale’s micro enterprise, the Matthew James Co:
Matthew Morreale, 24, could help answer a question that vexes advocates, politicians and parents of autistic children: Can we help these adults be more than a tax burden? Matthew is thought to be the first local example of a statewide trend. [...]

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When Matt Harding quit his job in 2003, he didn’t plan on becoming an internet celebrity, but in the years since, his dancing videos have racked up more than 15 million online views. In 2006, he was approached by Stride Gum and their sponsorship has led to steady gains in traffic and attention.
His most recent [...]

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I’ve been keeping an eye on Scott Eric Kaufman’s meme experiment. It seems it took on legs:
Posts that contain "Acephalous" Meme per day for the last 30 days.Get your own chart!
While you can see a huge spike of blogs linking in during the first 2 days, it quickly trails off, illustrating again the “long tail” [...]

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Wired writers must be on fire – Michael Calore has a great post up on the companies that are winning and losing the transition to a web 2.0 audience. Of course, it may just be that we share the same opinion of MySpace, but overall I use all of his top picks and I’ve dissed [...]

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It has been an action packed two weeks for me so I have been light on posting.
The new MacEvents.com site went live Wednesday morning. The team at Clipper Web Development created a great new design and built some nifty new features into the site:
Before:

After:

One of the best additions to the site is a section designed [...]

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I love it when things suddenly appear to re-affirm statements I’ve made.
I spent some time today checking out the new SBA research library. I downloaded enough material that it made better sense to print in volume using their ink, so I pushed it to my local Kinko’s for output.
Here is what I got back [...]

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Tonight I actually got out of the house and down to Shockoe Bottom to attend Wil Dunham’s first photography opening (and sale!) at Ethos Cafe. It’s great to see Wil monetizing his artwork; his first picture sold within minutes of the official opening. That makes it 4 months, in case you’re keeping track along with [...]

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I’ve been quiet lately because I’ve been up to my usual mischief; I have been working with both my usual clients plus a couple of new ones while putting the final touches on my sustainable self employment plan.
Some more of my fledgling blogs are ready to leave the nest; Darlene Greene is taking the [...]

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