This is kind of night when I am amazed for Twitter. I have twitter list for infographics people and newsroom developer types, and this Iowa Caucus night, people are posting up some really cool stuff.
WNYC Public Radio has a pretty good idea where each county is split into Patchwork Nation categories. I saw John Keefe speak at ONA and he sounded like real cool person. I did a patchwark nation graphics here at BostonGlobe.com couple of month ago.
I’ve been posting links that I liked at my Posterous page at posterous.daigo.org. Here are the week worth of links:
Sometimes, I hate shuffling songs. It happend to me when I was using iTunes on iPhone couple of years back, and drove me crazy. And it is happening to me again. This time, Spotify on iPhone. It is driving me absolutely nuts. There is something about knowing what the next song is going to be. I feel in control. Especially when you are listening to my own Playlist. Hey, I went though the trouble of creating my list, can I at least have it play in the order that I put it on the list?
And there it is. Clearly an UI issue. I am not the only one. It only happens on Spotify on iPhone, not the PC version. Don’t get me wrong, I love Spotify.
Problem is lack of shuffle mode display. Once you are in your playlist, and click on “Shuffle Play” button, which is in the center of the screen, you are in shuffle mode. Clicking on the song name does nothing. You are domed. There is nothing you can do from that screen. You will not know what the next song is going to be. So the “Shuffle Play” button only enables the shuffle mode, but does not disable the shuffle mode.
Here is what you do to fix it. You can either click on tiny “Now Playing” button on right top corner, or click on a song name to start playing a song. Then, from *that* screen, tap on the album cover. You will see something like this:
Figure 1: See the green twisted arrows? You are in "Shuffle Songs" mode.
Figure 2: No longer shuffling songs!
See the “Shuffle” on the left bottom? If that is green, that means you are in shuffle mode. So click on it and make it gray/balck-white-gradient and you are no longer in the shuffle mode. That is it. Actually very similar to the iPhone “Music” app problem.
This week’s tweet ranged from value of yen (Rangers bid for Yu Darvish of $51.7 is worth 3,878,000,000 yen, compared to Red Sox ‘s bid for Daisuke Matsuzalka in 2006 was 6,000,000,000 yen ($6 billion yen).
I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can search for it quicker using my blog’s search function. I tweet awfully a lot about baseball (I am a Red Sox fan), but if you are interested, please follow me at @DaigoFuji. Here are my tweets:
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Take this, Japanese fonts!
I’ve been posting links that I liked at my Posterous page at posterous.daigo.org. Here are the week worth of links:
Red Sox tickets went on sale this week. And I got them. Yes! Here is a sad photo from my friend.
The tickets for 2011 ALDS. Which didn’t happen. Friend of mine sent me the photo.
I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can search for it quicker using my blog’s search function. I tweet awfully a lot about baseball (I am a Red Sox fan), but if you are interested, please follow me at @DaigoFuji. Here are my tweets:
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Yu Darvish of Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in May, 2010. (AP/Kyodo file)
I can’t believe it is already December, and Christmas time is near. Yu Darvish has finally decided to come to the U.S. We’ll know the team by possibly the end of the week. I can’t believe Nakajima went to the Yankees. That is just crazy. Aoki is also posted. Where will he end up? I heard that Orioles got Tsuyoshi Wada… that is a good pick up, in my humble opinion. Go Dan Duquette!
I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can search for it quicker using my blog’s search function. I tweet awfully a lot about baseball (I am a Red Sox fan), but if you are interested, please follow me at @DaigoFuji. Here are my tweets:
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Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine and the team owner Akio Shigemitsu wave during a Japan Series parade in 2005. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
This week, I wrote a web exclusive story for the Boston Globe. Valentine left his mark on Japanese baseball. and here are some excerpts:
From “Bobby Beer” and “Bobby Burgers” to turning a perpetual doormat into a must-watch team, Bobby Valentine certainly left his mark during his time as a manager in Japan’s baseball league.
Valentine managed seven seasons in Japan, in 1995 and from 2004 to 2009, and his bold attitude really struck a chord with Japanese baseball fans. He was popular and well-liked nationwide.
“When he was managing there, he was super-popular with fans,” says Deanna Rubin, who watched Valentine firsthand and blogged about him on her blog Marinerds, etc., “mostly because he was super-accessible. He’d go out and greet fans and sign stuff for everyone sitting in the stands before pretty much every single game. And he used to ride a bike to the stadium, so people were always saying how they saw him out riding his bike.”
Valentine turned the Chiba Lotte Marines, the Pacific League’s perpetual doormat, into something exiting. Most importantly, he turned them into a winning team that won the Japan Series in 2005. That year, his Marines won the inaugural Asia Series against the winner of the Korean Professional League, and he even challenged the World Series champion Chicago White Sox to a game.
He once ranked first in a list of men you would like to have as your boss in Weekly SPA, a business and entertainment magazine. After the Japan Series win, there was a little Bobby-mania. They made and sold Bobby Beer. Bobby Burgers were sold in Lotteria, the fast-food chain owned by Chiba Lotte’s parent company. Even a little shrine, “Bobby Jinja” was elected in a nearby shopping mall, where fans can go to receive good luck.
I’ve been posting links that I liked at my Posterous page at posterous.daigo.org. Here are the week worth of links:
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