Wikiswarm: visualize Wikipedia page histories

A visualization of people who’ve contributed to the Barack Obama page on Wikipedia (link) Users who edit a lot drift toward the center. Best watched full screen!

Made using code_swarm (written in Processing) and my new Wikipedia page history parser Wikiswarm (Ruby), which uses the Wikipedia API to convert page edit histories into the code_swarm activity log format. There’s also experimental support for visualizing a user’s contributions.

Init

Get the code_swarm Processing app installed and working:
http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/
http://github.com/rictic/code_swarm/

Wikiswarm usage

Generate an activity.xml using wikipedia.rb — can accept multiple args:

$ ruby wikipedia.rb "Barack Obama" > activity.xml

It will also generate a merged log from multiple arguments:

$ ruby wikipedia.rb "Barack Obama" "John McCain" "Ron Paul" > activity.xml

And can produce a log of a users’ contributions, which fits the few-authors-many-files paradigm better:

$ ruby wikipedia.rb "User:Jamiew" > activity.xml

Config

The code_swarm.wikipedia.config file is the config I used to generate the Obama video. It has edges turned on (which
turns the histogram off) and lower TTL for authors.

In a code_swarm install you can do something like:

$ ruby wikiswarm/wikipedia.rb "Barack Obama" > data/activity.xml
$ ./run.sh wikiswarm/code_swarm.wikipedia.config

Oprah's Linux Club

Join me and Steve Lambert this afternoon for the inaugural Oprah’s Linux Club. All manner of experience levels welcome. And, of course, free Chevy Tahoes under every seat!

3 – 6pm this afternoon (Oct. 4th) at Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St

Add-Art 0.8 for Firefox 3

Replace ads with art better than ever! Add-Art version 0.8 is out! Click here to install

Ayah Bdeir doing a show about Arab culture. Stewing up plans to allow anyone to host a gallery, check out dev.eyebeam.org

Also exciting new Add-Art screencast by Ol’ Slambert... now with hip-hop!

Meme Breaks 1.0

A demonstration of the new Meme Breaks 1.0 scratch record, which compiles the Internets’ most famous audio samples into DJ-friendly format.

Instrumental: Black Star – Respiration

from jamiew on Vimeo

More info & download at jamiedubs.com/meme-breaks

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Right On Time (Jamie Dubs Disco Edit)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Right on Time” (from Californication) with all of this stuff removed, and some other parts looped

Download MP3 (4.44MB)

Firefox extension to fix the new Facebook design

I had a few issues with the new Facebook design, so I created a Firefox extension to make it more readable (and remove all the ads). See the before and after screenshots below.

» Click to install ‘Fix New Facebook’
(hassle-free!)

Before

The changes…

After

The extension is simply a compiled Greasemonkey userscript that adds a few CSS styles → fix-new-facebook.user.js

ROFLMAOBBQ & other Internets t-shirts

“For when LOL just doesn’t cut it.”

Printed on high-quality Apparelle Americaine from the FFFFF.AT T-shirt Shoppe

One in my ongoing series of internets t-shirts. See also:

It’s Fun To Do Bad Things

I Can Has Cheezburglar

O RLY?

x-posted from fffff.at

Add-Art is out! Replace online ads with art

Add-Art is a new Firefox extension which replaces online advertising with art. A new show is released every 2 weeks.

Our first show are Hiroshige prints selected by the Asian art curators at the Brooklyn Museum, here’s a sample:

• Click here to install Add-Art!
• more info: add-art.org.

If you like the project please show some support! Vote for us on Digg or Reddit, or consider volunteering to curate a show.

The code-inclined should check out the project page on dev.eyebeam.org and sign up for the mailing list. The team is really great and we’re looking forward to future development!

Fuck Flickr, host your own

Shi Tao is serving a 10-year sentence in prison for writing articles calling for political reform in China. Yahoo helped put him there.

FuckFlickr is open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out. We created it as an alternative to hosting your photos on a certain Yahoo-owned photo sharing site.

Download FuckFlickr 2.0 (PHP, 268kb .zip)

» More info on fffff.at: installation instructions, videos, etc.

» Code repository: http://tramchase.com/svn/fuckflickr/trunk
» Development info on dev.fffff.at

A F.A.T. Lab production