Monthly Archives: February 2009

To 90,000 Twitter Followers in 30 Days

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 24 February 2009
Last month Twitter quietly launched a new feature that generated a list of suggested users to follow. Most likely as a result of this list, the followers to many Twitter accounts increased exponential over the course of the last month. @LiveEarth, my employer’s twitter account (which is maintained primarily by me), saw a rise in [...]
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I Finally Saw Jane’s Addiction Live

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 22 February 2009
Back in 1991 I remember asking — begging — my parents to let me go downtown to see Jane’s Addiction at the Metro. I believe Nirvana was opening. Finally, 18 years later, I saw Jane’s at an even smaller venue and the result was well worth the wait. Jane’s Addiction and their small body of [...]
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The Credit Crisis Visualized

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 19 February 2009
Please take 11 minutes out of your day to appreciate [part of] Jonathan Jarvis’s Master’s thesis, “The Crisis of Credit Visualized.” Jarvis is a student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. May his grad school debt vanish with great haste. The context: The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit [...]
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