Thought reduction

I found tweetstats.com via Twitter today. It gives you an idea of when, what and to whom you most frequently tweet. They do that cloud thing, which is basically a pie chart of words.

I've seen these before, but it's interesting when you look at them and realize they are, in cooking terms, a reduction of one's thoughts. At the least, it gives you a taste of what's been on my mind (or at least my Tweeting fingertips) in the past few months.

Stipeful

Oh, Michael Stipe. How you still have it. I really love this single off their most recent album Accelerate, but I think I love even more that they've posted the original video data online and are encouraging listeners to re-edit the video for "Supernatural Superserious."

REM has been together longer than I've been alive, and even though they are on a major label, they are coming up with some of the coolest stuff in the industry. No, they aren't the first band to do this, but this is right up there with Radiohead giving away In Rainbows.
Users are given an artist's work and encouraged to do with it what they please. REM also agreed to let NPR stations across the country broadcast their show at SXSW last month. And they're even giving great interviews to Terry Gross on Fresh Air. They're all over the place, working the media and letting the media work them.
So. Very. Smart.