Want handpicked blogs to read?
Check this out: Scott Reynolds has posted his OPML file of the blogs he reads. Download and merge it into your RSS reader–it’s extremely well organized and full of resources.
Scoble: “I hate myself” ?
In a deperate grab for attention, Scoble wants more bloggers to hate him. Scoble writes:
It influenced me to start my own “hate Scoble” campaign. Only 98 Scoble haters? Come on, there must be more!
He seems to take excessive glee in citing other bloggers whom he believes harbour him animosity. I find it hard, though, to hate Scoble, someone I’ve never met. I even read and enjoy his blog. How would I hate Scoble? Rather, I pity you, because….
Scoble, I think you might have a negative-reinforcement Narcissistic Online Personality Disorder. Rather than puff up with pride at your enormous readership and internet authority, you seek out those who hate you, dress in their insults, and encourage hatred towards yourself. I know it’s hard being at the top, but you shouldn’t want to be hated, Scoble!
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US States GIS Dataset
As promised, I’ve got the cleaned up US state boundary data, perfect for creating visualizations in Excel or Matlab. It’s a dataset of (x,y) points for each state, cleaned so that all of the state boundaries lie exactly on top of each other. So, the map is a continuous set of polygons. Here are a couple pictures:
Download it in Matlab .mat or Excel .xls, and feel free to use it in any projects.
