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I'm a data scientist at http://last.fm/ by day, and in my spare time, a social web hacker at http://smeshup.com/ .

Blog: http://www.last.fm/user/andrewclegg/journal

Twitter: http://twitter.com/andrew_clegg

  1. Lyric clouds, genre maps and distinctive words (blog.last.fm)
    7 points 3
  2. Musical complexity, audio analysis and crowdsourced data (blog.last.fm)
    5 points 0
  3. Last.fm launches crowdsourcing experiment for tempo (BPM) detection (blog.last.fm)
    26 points 11
  4. Mining Valentine's Day listening trends (blog.last.fm)
    14 points 0
  5. Tech answers site (readthefuckingmanual.net)
    18 points 4
  6. Search-spam bitch-war: expert-sexchange issues takedown against allfaq.org (chillingeffects.org)
    1 points 0
  7. Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results

    Given the current high-ranking thread about spammy sites in Google results, it strikes me that a very simple solution would be to let logged-in users blacklist sites. Bam, no more wareseeker or efreedom. This would…

    438 points 216
  8. Vaccination-autism study 'an elaborate fraud', says BMJ (edition.cnn.com)
    2 points 0
  9. Why the Google Books Ngram Viewer is limited and misleading (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
    1 points 0
  10. Import Delicious bookmarks into Google Bookmarks via JS (blog.lifeslip.com)
    2 points 0
  11. TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it never existed anyway (torrentfreak.com)
    137 points 71