The excentric pride of Sweden and one of the most entertaining presenters ever, Hans Rosling, uses data displayed in interactive ways to explore how the world has evolved. Check out his latest gig from Google Zeitgeist in London. What an entertainer..
“This is really wild: what you see above is an example of “viral music” — it’s part of an upcoming music festival that’s taking place in Sweden, and it features a circle of iPhones that are both listening to and playing a very abstract kind of “music.” Each one is picking up audio from its environment, then running it through a series of software filters to make it sound more musical, and finally playing it back in a rhythm. As each iPhone is picking up the tune from the other iPhones it’s playing it back through the same filters, and so on and so forth. All while the software is “judging” each “cell” of sound, to see if it’s interesting or loud enough or so forth, and cells will live or die based on that criteria — in essence, a musical organism.”
Introducing your new Activity page (and “Tumblarity”)
Two big things:
We’ve added a new link on your Dashboard labeled Tumblarity. This will take you to your new Activity page where you can see cumulative and trending stats about your activity on Tumblr.
For the past few months we’ve been using an internal metric called “Tumblarity” to sort and filter content on the Search and Popular Content pages. Tumblarity is derived from every blog’s activity and popularity across our network. We’re getting ready to start using it to organize the boss new Tumblr directory (which should be done next week!).
For the first time, you can view your Tumblarity on the Dashboard and Activity page.
Please ignore the fact that I’m less popular than fuckyeahparamore.
Got recommended by a friend on Friday night to download a new game that recently made it’s way to the Appstore. It’s called Flight Control and your basic task is to guide several different planes that come in different sizes to its respective landing runway. Sounds primitive but it’s highly addictive and definitely on par with Touchgrind in terms of entertainment value, even though the game concept in Flight Control might not leverage iPhone multi-touch functionality to the same creative extent.