Re: CivicAccess-discuss Digest, Vol 65, Issue 17

[Peter Duerr]

Hi all,

I contacted Ms. Grbic at IC because the new extension date was not
updated on their website. The correct date  is now in place.

Thanks,

Have a good holiday season all,

Peter Duerr
York University
On 17/12/2012 11:14 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:36:40 -0500
> From: James McKinney <[hidden email]>
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] An aside on word clouds....
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> Second link should be http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml ?
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> On 2012-12-16, at 4:28 AM, Glen Newton wrote:
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>> As someone who works in the areas of text analysis and information
>> visualization, I have seen a number of word clouds proudly associated
>> with blogs, reports and even various importanty govermenty documents.
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>> Here are two articles that fairly accurately describe my view of word clouds:
>> - 2011, "Word clouds considered harmful"
>> http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/word-clouds-considered-harmful/
>> "...Every time I see a word cloud presented as insight, I die a little
>> inside..."
>> - 2005, "Tag clouds are the new mullets", https://www.lytro.com/camera
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>> The former is from the New York Times senior software architect, and
>> the latter I consider a gem of true foresight! :-)
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>> Enjoy,
>> Glen
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> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:35:46 -0500
> From: Glen Newton <[hidden email]>
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> Yes, apologies.
>   The risks of sending multiple emails at 0430.  :-(
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> -Glen  :-)
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> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM, James McKinney <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Second link should be http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml ?
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>> On 2012-12-16, at 4:28 AM, Glen Newton wrote:
>>
>> As someone who works in the areas of text analysis and information
>> visualization, I have seen a number of word clouds proudly associated
>> with blogs, reports and even various importanty govermenty documents.
>>
>> Here are two articles that fairly accurately describe my view of word
>> clouds:
>> - 2011, "Word clouds considered harmful"
>> http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/word-clouds-considered-harmful/
>> "...Every time I see a word cloud presented as insight, I die a little
>> inside..."
>> - 2005, "Tag clouds are the new mullets", https://www.lytro.com/camera
>>
>> The former is from the New York Times senior software architect, and
>> the latter I consider a gem of true foresight! :-)
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Glen
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>>
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>> http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/
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