Let the web help you graph the economy

Consider using various analytic tools to find out how people are accessing your site/blog/wiki/online course and see how it can inform your blogging journey.

Finding out through Lijit that my tiny post on the social graph was causing people to land on my blog when they googled 'graph of the economy.' This lead me to do some searching myself. Let me preface this by saying that I am by no means fluent in economics...

;-)

and I would urge you to evaluate the creditability of these resources if you are wanting to 'trust' the graphs that you see.

Here's an interactive graph about inflation as of late. Interesting! I know prices keep going up but it's cool to see some stats on it.

For a more qualitative look at perspectives on the economy, you can try Twist to graph trending topics in Twitter (here's one of 'economy', 'dow,' and 'stocks').

I do fancy visualizations of various things via the internet. In doing so I happened upon




and




both of which are interesting ways to look at graphs of the economy.

I hope this was helpful if you happen to be searching for those terms. May your journeys through the interwebs be prosperous.

ICOT in the NECC

Caught up in the net of NECC even though I'm nowhere near. Not that there's anything wrong with that (but we can all only run away from home so often ;-) )...a variety of my Google Reader feeds and Summize alerts (trackable through GReader) keep me in the loop on the news and notes at NECC 2008.

Amazing what you can observe when a whole bunch of people at the same session tweet at the same time...not to put to fine a point on it, and not to name names but when 'this session is boring' gets tweeted with a topic name all in the same span of time you kind of get the picture...crazy.

Haven't even glanced at the NECC Google Trends but I think we can safely assume there has been a spike as of late.

So the moment that prompted this post was actually the locating of ICOT (ISTE's Classroom Observation Tool). We need more open and/or free assessment resources like this one.

Catch the fire...

http://summize.com/search?q=necc
http://www.google.com/trends?q=necc%2C+moodle
http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=necc&table=0