Visualizing Spam & Virii
Bill H-D (occasional datacloud guest-blogger) pointed me to this page at
Postini showing data visualizations of spam and virii, by geographic region.
(Bill's recently
restarted his own weblogging: His current post calls for
a much-needed Amazon-based Web app to offer citation info in various academic formats [APA, MLA, ACM, etc.]. I'm like Bill--when I write, I normally don't bother to complete full citation info. During the final stages of revising a paper for publication, the publisher requires me to submit citation info in one off many formats, so I usually hit the web to gather the info, frequently going to Amazon to find out things like cities where a particular book publisher resides. I would
love a web app that reformatted Amazon's publication info into whatever different format I needed for that specific paper. Hell, I'd pay for it. Like Bill, I publish a lot in a wide range of interdisciplinary fields, so in the last few years I've had to use APA, MLA, ACM, and several even more obscure styles. So while specialized bibliographic database apps that many academics use can help with some of this, it really seems like the power of the Web would give us a better solution--all those resources are out there, they just need to be reformatted; it's translation problem.
This is about the longest parenthetical comment I've ever written. I feel like
David Foster Wallace.)
Posted by johndan at September 22, 2004 09:44 PM
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