This past Sunday the New York Times Magazine had a story by Mattathias Schwartz called “The Trolls Among Us” (or, of you look at the title of the HTML document and not the story, “Malwebolence: The World of Web Trolling”). The story details the exploits of a group of men and women who, it…
I’ve been telling students for years that 99% of the future of web design is redesign, which is why the major project in my web design course is redesigning a large-scale web site. Looks like two brothers had the same idea, with a twist: buying and reselling the domain name.
Search engine developer, Anna Patterson, who designed search technologies bought by Google has launched her own search engine meant to rival Google: Cuil (the article says Cuil is pronounced “cool” but the coloring of the font suggests “coo-el”). Cuil displays its search results as chunks of text across two or three columns. Here, the…
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.…