Andy Carnevale

Added Paradox Games style labels to the territories in Imperialism Map

Great new video by Jonas Tyroller where he turned Steam into a guessing game where you try to predict how well games sold based only on their store page. It's like deliberate practice for marketing. You make predictions, get instant feedback, and calibrate your instincts.

I was adding an /about page to my experimental SEO site of random object generators, and decided to have some fun.

The /r/eagles reddit post was well received: 10K views 49 upvotes, 94.5% upvote ratio 5 shares 3 comments

My sister also reposted this TikTok to YouTube shorts, were it also did well. 1k+ views 20 likes 2 comments, both requesting I add an NHL map Some of the direct traffic might have been coming from this video too. bsky.app/profile/andy...

The /r/eagles reddit post was well received: 10K views 49 upvotes, 94.5% upvote ratio 5 shares 3 comments

I learned my lesson and asked for permission first this time. Thanks to the mods of /r/eagles for letting me post! Working out too: setting a new site traffic record of 17 visitors in last 30 minutes (previous high was 8)

🏈 The NFL is back, and so is ImperialismMap.com! 🏈 The Philadelphia Eagles 🦅 lead with 2 territories after their Day 1 win over the Cowboys ⭐

I was excited to try sharing this project on Reddit on the first time, but my post got banned. Whoops!

🏈 Just launched ImperialismMap.com for the new college football season! 🏈 Arizona 🐱 leads with 3 territories after beating Hawai'i 🌈, who had already claimed 2 territories from their Week 0 win over Stanford 🌲.

Just in time for the end of the NBA season, the NBA map is now working on ImperalismMap.com

More games and less teams compared to football means that eventually the whole map consolidated to one team. Happened on March 27th when the Bulls beat the Lakers. Not sure if I should develop a new way to handle this, or if it's just part of the fun.

Claude Sonnet 4 one-shotted an SVG bug that no previous model had been able to solve. Got a little smug when I told it this. (The MDN page doesn't "literally" say that).

Clay Shirky's writing on Cognitive Surplus is more relevant than ever. New technology creates free time, but society initially wastes it on "cognitive heat sinks" - gin during industrialization, sitcoms in the postwar era, and social media today.

Shirky's guess: "Someone working alone, with really cheap tools, has a reasonable hope of carving out enough of the cognitive surplus, enough of the desire to participate, enough of the collective goodwill of the citizens, to create a resource you couldn't have imagined existing"

Clay Shirky's writing on Cognitive Surplus is more relevant than ever. New technology creates free time, but society initially wastes it on "cognitive heat sinks" - gin during industrialization, sitcoms in the postwar era, and social media today.

It's not until society "started thinking of this as a vast civic surplus" that these changes "stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset." The potential: "In the U.S. alone ... 2,000 Wikipedia [sized] projects a year spent watching television."

My new site www.imperialismmap.com (still a work in progress) has an interesting traffic source pattern. More traffic from Yahoo than Google! Starting to get ChatGPT traffic somehow too.