So I’ve decided to ditch Quantcast and Sitemeter and stick with using Google Analytics to measure traffic on tdrapeau.com. The 3 services basically do the same thing, PVs/UVs/referrals/user agents/etc, and Google is faster and nicer looking.
I figured since I was getting so much traffic, I might as well check into my analytics sources [...]

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Visualizing Data explores data visualizations through the Processing Environment, a Java-based IDE used as a sort of visual sketchpad to plot out visualizations without heaps of Java code. The author, Ben Fry, is well schooled - PhD from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, the 2006-2007 Nierenberg Chair of Design for [...]

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As I noted before, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the arrival of my XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child program. Well… it arrived!
And its tiny! Here it is side by side with a 15″ MacBook Pro:

KidWonder loves the laptop. Take a look at the Flickr slideshow of his first impression.
I’ve tooled around with the [...]

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KidWonder just had his birth-month-day, or as MomWonder and I call it, his month-versary! He’s now 3/4. To celebrate, we took some pics. Here is one that shows just how grown up he is.

moar funny pictures

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In 1998, John [Wood] took a vacation that changed his life. Trekking through a remote Himalayan village, he struck up conversation with a schoolteacher, who invited John to visit his school. There, John discovered that the few books available were so precious that they were kept under lock and key - to protect them from [...]

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So there is a new Guy Kawasaki site out called Alltop, and it categorizes tons of blogs and does the work to show you the 5 latest blog posts for each site, under a given category.
Thanks to Jeremy at Discovering Dad for pointing out that my humble blog here at tdrapeau.com made the Dad Category [...]

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I got back from Austin, TX early this morning, having journeyed to take part in the South by SouthWest Interactive Festival. Most of my team joined me in sunny Austin on Friday, and much transpired between then and Wednesday.
The good:
-Champagne while waiting in line to check into the Hyatt Regency
-Nice Weather
-Good Panels (LOL WUT)
-Weird Dude [...]

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I’ll get back to my experiences from this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival later, but for now: My engineering team was working hard during the festival, and at one random point, Derek was taking pictures and took this one:

Take a look at how it compares to another famous picture:

The similarities were so weird that we agreed [...]

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I know, I know, everyone has read this book already. I’m still going to write about it.
The Wisdom of Crowds takes a scientific look at the theory that given the right composition and the right problems to solve, a group can collectively be smarter than its smartest member. It sounds like it can’t [...]

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