Ashley Holtgraver's Barbarian Blog

Coxcombs and the British Hospital System

ashley@barbariangroup.com(Ashley Holtgraver) — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:47:28 -0400

Florence Nightengale’s cutting-edge use of applied statistics and its huge and lasting effects on the British hospital system

This is a nice article. It’s nice to be reminded that information visualization is not just a fad (as it starts to seem at times), and can be part of effecting change in a very real way, even back in the day before Processing :) It helps to have connections with Queen Victoria though.

The True Titans of Small Town

ashley@barbariangroup.com(Ashley Holtgraver) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:52:32 -0400

This weekend, I made the trek from my Boston hovel to glamorous, glittery New York City to attend Titans of Small Town, a ROFLCon webcomics gallery event sponsored by TBG and held at Street Attack’s 303Grand space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This event had a real A-Team of webcomics in attendance:

Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, showing several paintings
Chris Hastings of Dr McNinja, who brought raw pages of Dr McNinja comic artwork
Emily Horne and Joey Comeau of A Softer World, displaying some large prints of their favorite Softer Worlds
and special e-guest, Chris Onstad of Achewood fame, who pleasantly conversed via Instant Messenger with the gallery attendees for some hours into the night. Several of his drawings, paintings, and screenprints were displayed.

The event began with…

ashley's internet proverbs, the second.

ashley@barbariangroup.com(Ashley Holtgraver) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:02:44 -0500

Every action on a social networking site does not require an equal, opposite action.

_or

The enemy of my enemy, or friend of my friend, doesn’t necessarily have to be my friend.

ashley's internet proverbs, the first.

ashley@barbariangroup.com(Ashley Holtgraver) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:01:52 -0500

You can lead a user to a blog, but you can’t make him generate content.

That is all.

Festive Sweater Friday!

ashley@barbariangroup.com(Ashley Holtgraver) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:32:27 -0500

The holiday season is excellent for busting out those infrequently worn festive sweaters.

Happy Festive Friday!