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Readers of this blog will recall posts from several months ago that touched upon Martin Kevorkian’s fascinating book, Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America. Jim Brown pointed me to it and I decided to add it to the syllabus of my graduate course, Writing for Electronic Communities. We are reading it this [...]
March 16, 2008
ReadWriteWeb recently had two posts on information visualization. Marshall Kirkpatrick addresses the question of information overload by looking at how new visualization media are adapting from gaming interfaces. Sarah Perez lists The Best Tools for for Visualization by breaking the tools into several categories: Visualize Social Networks, Visualize Music, Visualize the Internet, among others. The [...]
March 12, 2008
Very quickly, from The Chronicle of Higher Education (some comments later in the week when I have a chance to relax a bit): I strongly recommend the Chronicle Review’s Architecture Issue (March 9, 2008), with which I am just getting started.
February 7, 2008
Via information aesthetics, The Onion reports on "a series of centric circles [that] have begun emanating from [a] glowing read dot in the big blue area over [the newscaster's] left shoulder." One of the funniest Onion videos ever, and a thoroughly wonderful comment on symbolic representation and the spectacle of news inforgraphics. Breaking News: Series Of [...]
April 14, 2008
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