We all know the volume of scientific literature is growing. I went looking for an infographic showing this, but wasn’t satisfied with what I found, so I made one, based on the publication dates of articles in MEDLINE. I got the data by searching PubMed with the query (“[year]“[Publication Date])where [year] was each year from [...]
Category Archives: code
Markup languages: who’s who?
April 1, 2010 – 10:21 pm
Is HTML XML? This question came up in a conversation with Sarah and @k8lin, and ended up being harder than I thought it’d be. There seems to be a fair amount of confusion on the topic, especially given the W3C’s recent abandonment of XHTML 2.0 and growing use of HTML5. So, I decided to lay [...]
Obfuscate no more: why your email address should go au naturale
May 12, 2009 – 5:11 pm
I was recently redesigning my homepage, and I wanted to include my email address. I knew that only n00b looz3rz display their addy in plain site for spambots to harvest, so I applied a little light obfuscation, like they do on php.net and million other sites: “myname at jasonpriem dot com.” “Take that, spammer scum!” [...]
Quick book review: Dreaming in Code
April 13, 2009 – 6:32 pm
I imagine Scott Rosenberg reckoned he’d picked a winner when he started Dreaming in Code, his 2007 book chronicling the development of the Chandler personal information manager. The project seemed to have everything going for it. It had all the fashionable features: GTD! Open Source! Peer-to-peer! Level the silos! It was headed by software legend Mitch [...]
FeedVis 2.0: custom visualization for your feeds
December 3, 2008 – 4:27 pm
My FeedVis project–the interactive tagcloud for a group of feeds–has been out for a week now, I’ve been thrilled at the positive response I’ve gotten so far. One rather glaring problem with the program, though, was that you could only look at the top 50 edublogs. Not anymore. After a few late nights, I’ve got [...]
FeedVis: a deeper tagcloud for edublogs
November 25, 2008 – 3:53 am
Tagclouds have value, but, as I’ve written before, they’ve a number of shortfalls as well. I’ve just finished my attempt to remedy some of these problems: FeedVis. It’s an animated tagcloud that lets you compare word frequencies accross different time periods and authors, then check out the posts that used the words. The demo is [...]
Zotero Report Customizer 2.0
August 26, 2008 – 6:19 pm
As I’ve discussed in a previous post, I’m an enthusiastic user of the free reference manager Zotero; I’m impressed with how such young, open-source product has managed to quickly outshine established, non-free alternatives like EndNote. One difficulty I (and others) have had with Zotero, though, is in generating reports for a group of articles. Particularly, [...]
