19 June 2008
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Jonnie Hallman has created a site that is interesting on a number of levels. First, I love the domain name and the reveling in “seize the day”. Second, his lab is full of beautiful work. Third, he’s build a great Adobe AIR app called DestroyFlickr that really makes Flickr sing. Take a look.
14 June 2008
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Wordle.net looks like a place to go for some fine word cloud action.
10 June 2008
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Over the past couple weeks I’ve given a brief presentation about the MDL a couple times. I’m tired of slides and wanted to try something new. Inspired by a presentation I saw that used Vuvox Collage, I created a very wide Pages document and converted it to PDF.

Meanwhile, I was invited to the Collage beta. While I’ve not done anything interesting with it yet, Nathaniel has put together a version of our experience going to the Obama rally last week.

I kind of like these long thin scrolls. I had a few complaints, though, about these as a way to convey professional presentations. A bit dizzying, I believe, maybe a bit unsettling without the bounds of traditional slides. I expect I’ll keep exploring this, more with Collage especially.
5 June 2008
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Amanda Cox does some great work at the NYT, and this latest visualization of how people voted during the Democratic primary is a wonderful example. It almost feels like you are watching folks rearrange chairs in a room.

25 May 2008
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How about the world for a canvas and a GPS tracker for a pen? Erik Nordenankar thought up this extraordinary idea. Hard to believe? Watch the movie.

UPDATE: Yes, hard to believe. This is a hoax and the artist has admitted as much.
9 May 2008
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OK, this is big. I’ve mentioned Processing a few times in the past weeks. It’s pretty cool, I just wish I had a reason to use it. Well, this week it seems that John Resig has given us all a birthday present: Processing.js, a version of Processing that runs in JavaScript. This has the potential to supplant Flash, we’ll see. I certainly find Processing itself pretty compelling.
Between this, the coming CSS web fonts, and newer/faster machines, web standards are on the cusp of a significant shift.
9 May 2008
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A brief, but very nice interview with Brad Bird at Gigaom last month. Among many bits of wisdom: “there are some [things] that only need to be good enough to not break the spell.”