Yes, a repeat from WhaleSongServices, but I think it is worth it. I am proud to be a part of the launch of Data + Design @DataDesignBook. A free, open source e-book made by 50+ contributors from around the world!! For anyone and everyone that has ever struggled with making data accessible, struggled to use evidence to improve planning or simply grappled with the best way…
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The bandwidth-sync correlation that's worth thinking about Check this out. Every once in a while a cool graph pops into my head. Here are a dozen or so forms of communication, arranged on two axes. On the horizontal, they rank from asynchronous (meaning the creator and the responder are separated in time--like a letter) and synchronous (meaning the creator and…
Amazon Releases Kindle Software for iPhone. Glen Fleishmann The other shoe has dropped: Amazon late tonight released Kindle for iPhone, a free application that provides access to the catalog of books available for purchase for Amazon's dedicated hardware device, the Kindle 2. (See "Kindle 2 Improves Design, Not Features," 2009-02-26, for a review.) If you already own or have owned…
HAL's Pals: Top 10 Evil Computers. To celebrate the 2001 supercomputer's birthday, Wired.com opens the pod bay doors to reveal Hollywood's most malevolent thinking machines. [Wired Top Stories]
Google Earth's Virtual Prado Museum. Madrid's Prado Museum has long been a destination for art lovers. In the company of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Louvre Museum in France, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Prado is home to countless masterpieces of western art. Unfortunately, the options for viewing its contents have always been either…
Innovative Ways of Seeing: The Art of Social Data From BIGTHINK.com In the current issue of Contagious Magazine (subscription required), Noah Brier and Faris Yakob of Naked Communications have prepared a tour de force article about the new age of social (meta)data. Data is no longer just boring old data -- it is now a wonderfully fluid and shareable construct that is open to…
Dave Winer comments on the growth of podcasting and the potential 'googlisation' of the new delivery of content. I am not so sure they should dismiss Apple so readily. I know Adam Curry can produce for audiences but I think Apple has a much bigger plan/strategy. If I knew what it was, I would be a wealthy man.... Dave says:…
Two museums are at work on a project to create one of the largest free databases of masterwork photography anywhere on the Web. By RANDY KENNEDY. Link: Amassing a Treasury of Photography.
Google print is a search engine that allows users to search for books whose content contains a match for your search terms. Link: Google print.
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