This Atlas Gloves demo may be a Talking Dog, but it certainly produces that frisson of Somethin’ Happnin’. Thanks to OgleEarth.com!

• Food Map: Phnom Penh
  Phnomenon locates Cambodian food, deliciously
  (tags: food)

While I surely enjoyed Stacy Schiff’s New Yorker article on Wikipedia, this summary of odd bits from JOHO is even more satisfying.

• ASAP Utilities
  “contains over 300 useful and powerful utilities to fill the gaps in Excel, and automate frequently used tasks”
  (tags: tools)

• danah boyd’s Best of Apophenia
  subcategorized roundup of her “essays that are most interesting to newcomers interested in social media”, a review form that I predict we’ll see more of. Bravo.
  (tags: metastuff)

There’s stuff I admire but don’t aspire to do myself, and video blogging is in that realm. This morning my blogstream presents me with abundant evidence of yet another of those tectonic shifts in Web presentation that redefines the possibilities of the medium. The conjunction of these three seems to me like new territory, and I’m certainly gonna enjoy the ride:

Better Bad News on Art

Mark Cuban’s little world

Music instruction mashup

• FlickrShow
  a hosted service to display Flickr photosets
  (tags: photography ajax javascript)
• Table of Condiments
  arrayed as a Periodic Table, by go-bad time
  (tags: food time)

There’s an interesting exchange on blogging and academic careers in the most recent issue of The Chronicle Review, centered on Yale’s non-hiring of Juan Cole, but provoking thought on Career in a more general sense. Juan Cole’s response is a good starting place, but the seven linked pieces (“Related materials”) are bones worth chewing upon.

Christina Wodtke’s Elements of Style for Designers is a useful reminder of things one might choose to do, or not, drawn directly from Strunk and White’s ave atque vale list of admonishments. As I read through the list, I reflected wincingly that I regularly and wilfully violate most of those injunctions for habits that lead to Good Writing, as many antiprescritivist postings at Language Log suggest I may, if I like.

• Map Builder
  “Rapid mashup development tool for Google and Yahoo maps”
  (tags: mashup visualization geospatial)