Cheryl Morris - Weblogs

For gossip or famous people tracking, NNDB is certainly a resource. Now I can easily find that Sean Connery DVD I want and get an update on Harrison Ford. Well, now you know two of my favorite actors.

After yesterday’s discovery of my non-digital identity, I attended the BA Future Salon where the topic was Digital Identity. Each participant was asked what they had discovered when they Googled themselves? (Though a Yahoo Marketing person said “Yahood” — maybe we need a Gooyah or a Yahgoo for those who search both?) Some found […]

We want to know how things were if we are curious about history. I am and I find the Internet Archive a fascinating place. Thank goodness someone had the idea and started it before too much of the early days were lost forever. But the Internet Archive is only part of Kahle’s exciting projects. Not […]

Today I decided to use TouchGraph to find links to my Web pages and blogs. Nada! No links. Closest were some similarities on Live Journal where I have an older blog and those similarities were music-related. See Touch Graph’s LiveJournal Browser.
Sigh. I really need to update my Great White Fleet site done with post cards […]

Well, a weeklong trip in Florida, then home. Was supposed to land Friday night but weather on the east coast fouled up traffic patterns, so plane was late. By the time we arrived at Dallas-Ft. Worth, our plane to SF was long gone, so we spent the night in a hotel in Arlington. Luckily, I […]

1. Linked
2. Five Steps to Statistics
3. Building Broadband Networks

The fourth required residency is now complete — all I must do is finish this semester and do a dissertation. All??? Well, first there is the frightening need to find a problem to work on. I’ve not yet submitted an idea paper….
There are areas of information visualization, security, networks, policy, and HCI that I find […]

10×10 presents news by visual imagery on an hourly basis. Another interesting visualization of the news is News Map; it draws from Google while 10 x 10 draws from three sources: Reuters, BBC, and NY Times.
Understanding the imagery used in 10×10 requires the user be familiar with the image presented and have a […]

They’re down the list. Really clever site.

2004 is gone - perhaps it will best be remembered by the tragedies at year’s end — the tsunami damage and the horrific fine at a night club in Buenos Aires. Neither can be easily comprehended. The tsunami was not preventable; its human damage could have been lessened. The night club fire was preventable - […]