When you want the official Facebook account or the LinkedIn for a famous person, what do you do? A quick Web search? It’s either that, ask a friend, or try to guess. But there are other places that have that kind of information too, like Wikipedia. And if you’re looking…
Gossip Machine is Fun, but Double Stuff Gossip Machine is Even More Fun. The first version of Gossip Machine let you analyze Wikipedia article page views to find dates with unusually high traffic and turn those dates into Google News searches. Double-Stuff Gossip Machine lets you analyze TWO pages, find…
Imagine you pick a news article at random and start counting the number of times a baseball player is mentioned by name. If one player is mentioned, it might be a cultural reference or a quote out of context. If two baseball players are mentioned by name, it’s possible that…
There’s so much news going on these days that it’s hard to keep up, so I decided I needed something to give me a quick backgrounder on a person/place/thing, provide me with links to credible information, and offer pointers to possible news events in the last couple of years. My…
Have you noticed that universities sometimes focus their research particularly on people who were born nearby or in the state? That’s what Backyard Scholarship looks for. Enter a name and a birthplace in America, and Backyard converts the city state to a zip code and finds all higher education institutions…