“As you grow older, you’ll find that the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.” — Zachary Scott
“We all live in our fucking bubble. I like to to talk to people who have no fucking idea what Foursquare or Gowalla is…they’re interesting to me because they are now being trained…the masses, not the 87 of us, I’m talking the rest of the fucking thing…they’re being trained to pay for shit and I think it’s our time to strike.” — Gary Vaynerchuk on charging for apps.
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” — H.G. Wells
This interesting visualization plots where locals and tourists took photos in Sydney. Eric Fischer overlaid geolocation data from photos posted to flickr on a base map of the city. To determine if the photo was taken by a local or a tourist he analyzed the rest of their photostream; If the user posted photos from a city that were taken in the span of less than a month’s time and they usually post photos from a different, home city, they were deemed to be tourists.
Blue pictures are by locals. Red pictures are by tourists. Yellow pictures might be by either.
The entire set currently contains 99 cities. It will be nice to see New York City’s visualization updated after the tourist lane catches on.
Imitation feels dirty to me, but you can not argue with the statistics and examples. It’s all about execution.
We’ve been socialized from a young age to treat imitation as undignified and objectionable, something done by those who are unoriginal.
Is it the easy way out? Or the smart way in?
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