I didn’t bother with Facebook (or facebook, as it is properly named) until grad school, at the urging of my classmates. Since then I’ve had on-and-off periods. But for the past month, I haven’t spent more than five minutes there. Why? The redesign is horrible.
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Marisa Taylor has a great piece about a rather enterprising (if not unimaginable) project by Virgil Griffith, which takes very public data and puts it together in a way you wouldn’t expect. Very interesting in terms of Facebook trends and data mining.
Says Virgil:
On weekends, I use data-mining to make the Internet a better and more interesting place.
True, true. Just look at what WikiScanner did to expose so-called anonymous Wikipedia edits.
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