• Career Advice: Shut Up and Write
  (IHE) discusses different types of writing groups
  (tags: writing research productivity support)

• I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire
  (NYTimes) – Northwestern alum behind the LOLCATS empire
  (tags: article bio northwestern-alum lolcats)
• If It Was My Home – Visualizing the BP Oil Spill Disaster
  map of oil spill over Budapest – shows that spill would cover most of Hungary
  (tags: maps visualization disaster nature environment)
• Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! – Roger Ebert's Journal
  (tags: twitter)
• What Can High School Students Contribute to Wikipedia?
  (tags: teaching wikipedia students participation)
• Create Your Syllabus With a Spreadsheet and a Calendar App
  (ProfHacker – CHE)
  (tags: calendar syllabus teaching tips howto)
• World Cup 2010 Twitter replay
  very nice visualization of tweets and in-game happenings during 2010 World Cup games
  (tags: visualization sports twitter)

The Guardian’s replay of Twitter posts during various World Cup games is great! Pick a game by clicking on one of the colorful dots – as opposed to the gray ones that signal games not yet played – and not only see the changing relative popularity of related tweet themes, but also see when things happened during the game. (In addition to these showing up on the side next to players’ names as time goes by, you can also see the entire game time line below the figure and move to any specific point by dragging the blue arrow.) Very cool. (Tx: Gilad)