Link Round-Up: The Information

The title of this post comes from this
enjoyable novel. Here are some links to graphs, lists and other expressions
of data:

• This is remarkable,
  and appeals to my need to express information about my life visually (remember
  this
  daunting chart of my shoddy musical taste?). A while back, I tried to
  express the relationships among all my Irish friends, but couldn’t figure
  out how to render the chart. Then my laptop melted, and took my Visio file
  with it.
• Ta-da lists, from
  the folks who make the great-looking Basecamp,
  "the iPod of project management". It’s kind of the less whimsical
  version of 43 Things.
  We’re using a Basecamp project management thingy to organize Northern
  Voice. Smart marketing from 37signals–giving away a portion of the product,
  to-do lists, for free. Thanks, Waxy
  and Coudal dudes.
• Engadget discusses
  (and includes a nice chart) why battery life isn’t improving.
• PubSub is tracking
  8 million blogs. Yowza. And apparently 4.6 million of them are active.
  Thanks, Steve.
• Steve also engages in a
  brave experiment in blog awareness testing at Grand
  Central Station.