Category Archives: visualization

the web of today uses semantic tags to underscore relationships and make searching easier. topical relationships – while fundamental – may miss some of the subtler relationships, such as those that only appear over time. what if the history of information could be part of its tag, and what kind of understanding could this bring […]

this video accompaniment to rob bryanton’s book ‘imagining the tenth dimension‘ is so well-done that i don’t know whether the illustrator (oh!media) or the author had more to do with making the concept understandable. now that video is so easy to make and share, it serves as a tool for expressing and publicizing all sorts […]

matt made a great app a month ago, and i should really have blogged about it since my life is the sample page – but you can download it and use it on yourself (or anyone else). just like spluttr is a search engine for every kind of data, personal zeitgeist is a feed of […]

in 1994 the US food and drug administration mandated that all food sold in the US contain a table of ‘nutrition facts‘. the label (above) quickly became a graphic icon, and soothed an obese population with a sense of control over diet through proper labeling. as a result the graphic convention was rapidly and widely […]

thanks to the true cost clearinghouse i came across this program made by the ontario medical association that allows you to calculate the costs of air pollution according to numerous criteria and very precisely. i always thought pollution should be measured in terms of health and money, not some future flooding and imperceptible global temperature […]

while advertising has always seemed like the parasite of television, televisions are become parasites of our attention and visual field: today we can get television in our telephones music players gas pumps vending machines and everything else then soon television will have to convince us to watch it. newsbreaker is a cognitively taxing version of […]

how sweet it was while it lasted! blogging may soon slip from my daily activities – i’ve been using google’s reader for a year now, and only recently i noticed that it was possible to make my favorite (‘starred’) items public, which places them into their own beautifully formatted albeit very vertical blog (mini-version above). […]

the united states holocaust museum and google earth have partnered up to create a real monument to atrocity on earth – not one that is frozen in the past but one which testifies to the ongoing brutality around the world. first you have to download google earth, then you download the darfur layer, after which […]