Tara Calishain

I dream in data flows

A screenshot of Mastodon Stadium Seats. It's very plain text in two columns; think Basic Twitter.

August 24, 2023

News

Mastodon Stadium Seats

Yesterday was a very big news day and I was curious to see how well Mastodon would keep me informed about breaking news as Twitter continues to crumble. I was disappointed. I run my own tiny instance populated by only about a dozen active users, so only a trickle of news was getting to my […]

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Turning A Wikipedia Popularity List Into a News Search

Curly and I have been playing a game called “How much information can you get with no information?” A fun field to play this on is Wikipedia’s top 1000 pages list, which provides a list of Wikipedia’s articles by pageviews on a specific date. The information I’m trying to get from such a list is […]

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