Visualization of Girl Talk’s All Day
Girl Talk’s new album was released on Nov 15 and available for free download at his site. Remixed from 373 samples, it’s a sonic adventure. To get a sense of the combinations and samples, @brahn made a mashup using information about the timing from samples at Wikipedia and AllDaySamples so you can see which samples ...
Augmented Reality Slowly Becoming a Reality
While it’s probably some time before Augmented Reality (AR) is part of everyday practice, it’s good to see that some applications are coming to fruition. Today, Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb posted that Metro Paris Subway (iTunes link), a French app from PresseLite has appeared in the iTunes store. A commenter on Marshall’s post, Tim, speculates ...
Personas: Portrait of Your Data Identity
Personas is a new project by the Sociable Media Group from MIT Media Lab and is currently showing at the MIT Museum and online. It uses sophisticated natural language processing (PDF link) and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. ...
Super Tuesday Online
I always get excited when it’s an election year, but particularly this one because it’s been eight long years. Two web projects related to the U.S. election caught my attention today. First, the New York Times, Design Observer and AIGA teamed up to create an initiative in citizen journalism. The Polling Place photo project accepts ...
The Impact of One Visualization
In an excellent article at the Adobe Design Center site, David Womack describes the significance of one visualization in “Seeing is believing: Information visualization and the debate over global warming.” Womack describes the considerations around presenting visualizations of global warming in Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. There are lessons here for us as both ...
Visualization and Discovery
One of the reasons I love designing for the web is the constantly shifting landscape, both in terms of audience and tools. With each technological shift in the brief history of the Internet, designers have evolved and created new systems for people to navigate online spaces. In the last few weeks, there’s been a good ...
gVisit Web Visitor Maps
Continuing my search for new mapping technologies, I came across gVisit, another project developed using the Google map API. gVisit allows you to track visitors to your website using Google Maps. I’ve signed up and am waiting for it to log my site sometime in the next hour. When it’s generated, I should be able ...