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Who's REALLY using Google+?

Originally posted 2011-08-01 16:56:10. The data visualization wizards at Bime have just posted an interactive dashboard of Google Plus data that gives a pretty granular picture. Bime admits that the data is "a few weeks old," so demographics may have shifted. As we noted last week, user behavior on Google Plus appears to be changing. But [...]

Sometimes We Forget…

The Earth is moving all the time beneath our feet. I think we often take for granted that the sun rises and sets because the planet we live on is turning. But when you get a chance to see the heavens from the perspective of this motion, it puts things back into a sublime perspective. [...]

The Fascinating World of the Microscopic

Wired has posted some great microscopic videos. If nothing else, this has to make you truly appreciative of the complexities of life. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/201... My favorite: Just partial to ants. They are amazing creatures. From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post The Fascinating World of the Microscopic Post Footer automatically generated by wp-posturl plugin for [...]

The Moon in Glorious 3D

Thanks to a new 3-D map of the moon, earthbound viewers can see its landscape with a clarity that only Apollo's astronauts have previously enjoyed. "NASA put out some amazing digital elevation data of the moon late last year, but nobody had released it in true 3-D. So I decided I would," said Jeffrey Ambroziak, the [...]

What The Aliens Will See First When They Invade

Well, maybe I shouldn't be that dramatic but these videos (compilations of still photos taken at 1 frame per second from the International Space Station) really provide a great over-head view of our night-time lives. Beyond just the nervous-system-like arrangement of cities and lights, you can also catch glimpses of really cool atmospheric phenomena.   [...]

Hadoop Gets a Big Push

Originally posted 2011-06-28 10:52:37. For those of us immersed in the cloud industry, this is big news: http://gigaom.com/cloud/exclusive-yah... It provides a heavy-weight's backing to a core cloud technology. Hadoop provides a core infrastructure that will become more and more necessary in distributed environments to improve overall cost efficiencies of carrying out high-compute intensive activities. Yahooooooo! [...]

Photo: The Invasion Is Upon Us!

Originally posted 2011-07-27 11:57:49. NatGeo has an amazing photo of an unlikely invader, silhouetted against a burning sky. Sometimes, it's the littlest creatures that spark in us the greatest fright. http://photography.nationalgeographic... From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Photo: The Invasion Is Upon Us! Post Footer automatically generated by wp-posturl plugin for wordpress.

2012: The Year of the "Digital Consumer"

Originally posted 2012-01-04 13:49:32. Although I don't like to prognosticate, I think that 2012 will be the year of the "digital consumer." Before I explain what that means, let me cover a few 2011 happenings that are leading to this: Consumption of digital media increased dramatically. Netflix traffic went up (~30% of all Internet traffic on [...]

Infographic: An Ode to Steve Jobs

Originally posted 2011-08-25 13:25:05. The best part is that I remember all this and that, looking back on my childhood, I always had some sort of Apple computer in my house (II, II+, C, clone, Mac). Click to enlarge. From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Infographic: An Ode to Steve Jobs Post Footer [...]

Comic Books as a Reflection of Social Issues

Originally posted 2011-07-19 16:06:21. Comic books have always held a special place in the collective social imagination. Although often relegated to the fancies of children, there are many lifelong comic-book fans that enjoy the outlandish and often impossibility represented by superheros and their ilk. But the comic book industry has seen a steadily-increasing downturn in [...]