Back in March, we announced plans for a weekly series of FAWM 2008 summaries in the form of fun and interesting statistics about this year’s project. Perhaps it will be more of a bi-monthly thing at the rate we are going? At any rate, post #2 in this series focuses on some interesting data about […]
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I may be a songwriter, but I am primarily a scientist. And even though I didn’t conceive of FAWM as a data set to be studied (in fact, I had no idea it would grow into what it is now), I must confess that the annual aftermath is one of my favorite parts. So many […]
Strangle Disco 101
By on 02-Feb-08 @ 10:48am in Strangle Disco, Statistics and Fun Stuff. 3 CommentsOne of the most interesting things to come out of the FAWM 2007 challenge last year was a “genre” called Strangle Disco. It originated as a challenge in an anagram-themed thread of the forums, and accidentally grew into a phenomenon within the community, generating 52 songs by the end of the month. Additionally, websites were […]
Earlier this year, I aspired to create a “2007 Annual Report” that summed up statistics and trends about this year’s FAWM. I’d hoped to make it an annual tradition (like the fawmpilation CD) to document and characterize each year’s event. However, I was just too busy to pull it together in such a form. Several […]