Weeknote Calculator
If you’re here, you probably don’t need this. If you’re thinking about being here, you may need this. It’s a calculator that will help you count what week you’re in. Thanks to Adrian McEwen at MCQN!
If you’re here, you probably don’t need this. If you’re thinking about being here, you may need this. It’s a calculator that will help you count what week you’re in. Thanks to Adrian McEwen at MCQN!
Please welcome, Charlie Gower to Weeknotes.com. Since Charlie travels a good bit, including regular visits to Berlin, that means we can more or less bump the country count up to six. The next weeknotes participant will bring the total to twenty! So that’s the state of the site this week. In just a few months we’ve grown from an initial crop of about five. Let’s see if we can hit forty by the end of 2010.
Great news! In adding some new feeds I started looking at the code for the site again and realized that there was a serious (and simple, dumb) error in the aggregated feed. That should be fixed now.
We’ve added a few new Weeknoters to the mix. Say hello to Tim Duckett, Robin Sloan, Rattle, Nordkapp, and Jim Meredith. Phew. That’s a total of 18 feeds from 5 countries now.
The US (7) and UK (6) are neck and neck, but little Finland (3) is not doing bad if you compare Weeknotes per capita. If the US had the same weeknotes/capita ratio as the US there would be over 1600 Weeknoters! Don’t worry, we think you’re pretty special too, Sweden and Holland!
We want to move away from Yahoo Pipes, but I haven’t had the time to sit down and write a proper parser that can regex the appropriate content if the feed does not come to us pre-sorted. For the record, people who offer a specific feed of only their Weeknotes in full text–I’m looking at you, Molly–make our life much easier and we appreciate that. A lot.
Two new feeds on the list this week: Molly Steenson, a PhD Student at Princeton, and Kars Alfrink, a freelance interaction designer. Welcome!
*Due to Tumblr’s curious non-timestamped javascript embed widget I have sort of given up keeping track of the actual week.
Please welcome Finn Brunton to the mix. Finn is a research fellow at NYU working on the history of data mining and obfuscation and is currently working on a book about spam. He’s also our first academic on weeknotes. Progress!
Not much to report other than the fact that we’ve added a new member. Please welcome Do Projects to Weeknotes. Do Projects is a collaboration between Nurri Kim, Adam Greenfield, and occasional other members.
OK, a couple things. We’ve tweaked the formatting a bit to order the items by date starting with newest on the left.
Some of you have mentioned that this site is not the most legible. You’re correct. Suggestions on alternate layouts? We’ve been toying with an ‘expandable tile’ format but it’s a pain in the CSS-butt.
Also, we’re testing out a new editorial standard. I’ve removed Kicker from the list since their updates are basically just link lists. Kicker, if you’re out there and upset about this please get in touch. I’m easily convinced to change my mind.
Let’s consider this a first attempt. I think it’s working, but please report any problems.
As of today, please welcome Second Verse to the mix. SV is a one-man-shop headed up by Ryan Freitas delivering the very finest in experience design from a office in the Mission district of San Francisco.
At the end of week one this puts our total at nine offices keeping Weeknotes: three in the SF Bay Area; three in London; and one each in Oxfordshire, Stockholm, and Finland.
*Yeah, because duh, we have to weeknote the weeknotes, right?
They may be persnickety, but you can’t help but love them.
So yeah, the HTML should be rendering properly in Safari now.
