One Big Library.

Just in case I forget over the holidays.

• Building an LED chanukiah
• Taking the web more seriously
• learn2code lesson 2..n
• More details on alt.code4lib.dc
• Okay, fine, I get twitter now. (nevermind, that just wrote itself.)
• Eliminating software
• Library Geeks 014..n
• Practical linked data
• Caching and proxying linked data

I thought i'd be clever and write the title with just the part in quotes, but, obviously, I wouldn't be the first to say so.

Just for fun:

• "Blogs are so 1998"
• "Blogs are so 1999"
• "Blogs are so 2000"
• "Blogs are so 2001"
• "Blogs are so 2003"
• "Blogs are so 2004"
• "Blogs are so 2005"
• "Blogs are so 2006"

(...mmm, i love the smell of the observer effect in the morning...)

Seriously, though. Is this medium dead, or what? Has it really changed at all in five years, or since the first podcast?

My new favorite blog is the Pro Football Reference blog. Why? Great data -- which you can download -- with fun, informative, and even playful analysis, with a generous dose of putting interesting math to use, on a topic I can't help but care about more than I should.

When I was little I used to love watching the numbers go up and down on the sports pages - baseball and football in particular, but also basketball and hockey. Well, heck, who am I kidding, I *still* love watching the numbers go up and down on the sports pages. Sometime around when I turned 11 or 12 I started reading the stock pages too... turned into a pretty good picker, though I didn't really have much money at the time, or I'd be way farther up the "leisure class" scale by now. (I told a lot of people to buy Cisco Systems in the early 1990s... but did they LISTEN?)

When games are on I'm always calculating little bits in my head... "okay now Barry's averaging 9 yards per carry on downs when he gains yards and -2 when he loses." I often think that most other people do, because occasionally an announcer will, when a slugger HRs in his first five games, or when a rookie forward scores in his first six games, say something like "he's on a pace to hit 162 this year chuckle chuckle" or "even on his current pace to score 80 goals he'll still fall short of Gretzky's 92, Bob, eh."

Fortunately, on the internet, nobody knows you're a sports stat geek... except the other sports stat geeks.