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Jake
New York
I'm a 33 year old amateur photographer living in New York City.
Interests: biking, cats, graffiti.
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It seems weird that the Tumblr Dashboard is worth $1.1BB and yet the Google Reader dashboard is worth zero!
Frequently Asked Questions about Yahoo's Acquisition of Tumblr
All of these questions are variations on "Why did Yahoo! spend one-third of their cash on hand to buy a company that by all accounts is about to run out of money?" Read this post, and hopefully these questions will not need to be asked again! Why did Yahoo! make this acquisition? We know very li...
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Nov 30, 2012
TMBG is the Grateful Dead of Nerd Music.
The Roots are the Grateful Dead of Hip Hop
Finn sent me to Big Ghost's "Best of" blog post for 20111. It's a fun read, and features exciting music. One comment stuck out: The Roots is basically the Rolling Stones of hip hop b. Sometime in 2003 I predicted in conversation with my friend Angela that either the Beastie Boys or the Roots w...
We're soon going to move Streetsy over to new...
We're soon going to move Streetsy over to new hosting at Tumblr, and integrate it with our new graffiti tracking site, http://www.grafrank.com - you'll see the site redirect soon, and things may look messy for a couple of weeks. -Jake Continue reading
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Jan 23, 2012
I pulled another data set- this is GrafRank over...
I pulled another data set- this is GrafRank over the last 60 days for the entire world. You can see the effect of festivals in places like Miami and Groningen. The influence of Mr. Brainwash is still pervasive- he's literally... Continue reading
Posted Jan 21, 2012 at Streetsy
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GrafRank will also work for individual cities. For...
GrafRank will also work for individual cities. For instance, here are the most successful graffiti artists in NYC and LA over the last 30 days (again, the lists become noisier towards the bottom, in this case, below a GrafRank of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2012 at Streetsy
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I changed the grafrank methodology slightly and...
I changed the grafrank methodology slightly and reprocessed the last 30 days. The results don't change that much from the last run- still some noise below a rank of "5". Also, say what you want about Mr. Brainwash, but scientifically,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2012 at Streetsy
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Jan 17, 2012
For Streetsy Version 3, I've been thinking about...
For Streetsy Version 3, I've been thinking about different ways to algorithmically track graffiti around the world. As a first step, I made a program that analyzed graffiti activity by artist and city, and then collected about a month of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2012 at Streetsy
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