What's hot? Introducing Zeitgeist
We've just launched an exciting new project which, as you can see from the screenshot above, looks (and behaves) a bit differently from most other things on the Guardian site. Zeitgeist is a visual record of what people are currently finding interesting on guardian.co.uk at the moment. While other bits of the site are curated by editors (like the front page, or individual sections) or metadata (like blogs, which display in reverse-chronological order), Zeitgeist is dynamic, powered by the attention of users, which is why we've put this into the Community section. The combination of content objects changes throughout the day, sometimes by the minute, as activity shifts around the site, stories get linked to or talked about, new stories are published and become widely-read and so on.
2011: Call for Participation
OKCon 2011: Call for Participation Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in areas ranging from governance to science, culture to technology. This is a time of great change. High profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project demonstrate the momentum that the movement has gathered.
Infographic: United States of the Environment
In the spirit of two popular infographics that map out the best and worst of all 50 U.S. states — the United States of Awesome and the United States of Shame — MNN decided to see how each state shines or suffers in regard to environmental and public health. Our "United States of the Environment" maps depict each state's No. 1 and No. 50 ranking for issues such as conservation, agriculture, energy efficiency, disease prevalence, pollution, natural resource availability and education, among others. Check out the two maps below, and see our list of states, stats and sources for more information.
The United States of Shame (CHART)
Whether it’s a fat population, high rate of STDs or excessive tax rate, it turns out that every state ranks dead last in at least one unsavory category. Check out the map (click image to enlarge) to see what your state is the worst at, then review additional stats and references after the jump: Rationale and statistics: Most stats taken from and (unless otherwise noted) 1. Alabama: highest rate of stroke (3.8 percent) (tied with Oklahoma)
20.16. urlparse — Parse URLs into components — Python v2.7.1 documentation
Note The urlparse module is renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3. The 2to3 tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to Python 3. Source code: Lib/urlparse.py
Mapping the Mixed Emotions following Osama bin Laden's Death
The Death of a Terrorist: A Turning Point? [nytimes.com] provides an overview of the wide and varied mix of emotions following Osama bin Laden's recent death. Gathered from about 10,510 unique comments, the dotplot diagram contrasts the responses with negative (left) versus positive (right) emotions, against whether they consider the death significant (top) or insignificant (bottom) in terms of being a turning point in the current war on terror. Squares with darker shades represent multiple comments on the same emotion versus significance location.
20.7. urllib.parse — Parse URLs into components — Python v3.1.3 documentation
This module defines a standard interface to break Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings up in components (addressing scheme, network location, path etc.), to combine the components back into a URL string, and to convert a “relative URL” to an absolute URL given a “base URL.” The module has been designed to match the Internet RFC on Relative Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier draft!). It supports the following URL schemes: file, ftp, gopher, hdl, http, https, imap, mailto, mms, news, nntp, prospero, rsync, rtsp, rtspu, sftp, shttp, sip, sips, snews, svn, svn+ssh, telnet, wais. The urllib.parse module defines the following functions: urllib.parse.urlparse(urlstring, scheme='', allow_fragments=True) Parse a URL into six components, returning a 6-tuple.
Top 20 Apps For Managing Social Media
Social media from Twitter to Facebook, LinkedIn to YouTube creates opportunities for building relationships, cultivating customers and promoting business, but the sea of updates and input awash with data both important and consequential can drown all but the most dogged of users. Fortunately, app developers have created more than a few devices to make keeping afloat in the social media waters manageable, sane and even productive. Yet even the tools intended to help users navigate social media ar 1 of 20 With TweetDeck, users can customize their Twitter experience with groups, columns, saved searches and automatic updates to help them stay updated about interesting people and topics. TweetDeck, which is free, allows users to track what others are saying about them, and give updates via tweeting, sharing photos, videos and links.
