Mycrocosm

Its been a while since I posted here and this update is definitely long overdue. I basically want to update you with what is going with Mycrocosm now and the near future. As many of you know, Mycrocosm started out as a research project in the first year of my masters at the Media Lab. I have recently graduated so some clarification is in order on the future of the site.

While I believe that it should be up and running for a while to come (in terms of hosting at the Media Lab), Mycrocosm is pretty much a side project for me at this point —actually is has been a side project for a while as my research took a completely different direction a while after launch. There are a few bugs I want to fix (including the front page not refreshing the updated graphs and a bug in the rendering of some line graphs) and I gave the site a bit of a visual refresh to mark the change in status (and for fun — let me know what you think!). But new features may be few and far between as I’ll only get to work on this in my spare time. Let me know if there are broken things that need particular attention and I will do my best to improve them.

I also want to alert you to some upcoming (but unspecified) downtime. The Media Lab is expanding into a new building in the near future and this process will involve some downtime for Mycrocosm as servers are moved and whatnot. Not actually being there anymore means I am not sure exactly when it is going to happen or the logistics of the move. I will keep you updated as best as I can (either via this blog or on twitter). Apologies for the downtime and for the vagueness around it but a number of factors are out of my control (and now out of my direct site), once again thanks for using Mycrocosm.