January 2012
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December 2011
4 posts
Frontiers through the Ages
dbreunig:
Water, 1400
Land, 1840
Gold, 1850
Wire, 1880
Air, 1900
Celluloid, 1920
Plastic, 1950
Space, 1960
Silicon, 1980
Networks, 1990
Data, 2000
Substratum Interview →
A compendium of interviews with the incredibly talented speakers from this year’s Eyeo festival. There’s also one with me.
November 2011
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October 2011
7 posts
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson (via ninedaysoff)
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September 2011
8 posts
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roomthily: the internet with things →
If this is about a fitbit for my cat, I’m in.
roomthily:
The problem, though, with the Internet Of Things is that it falls apart when it starts to think about people. When big company Internet Of Things thinkers get involved they tend to spawn creepy videos about sleek people in sleek homes living optimised lives full of smart objects. These videos…
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Drewbot: On Facebook Timeline: Teaching Data to... →
dbreunig:
Yesterday, Facebook unveiled their new “Timeline” design. Largely imagined by Sam Lessin and Nicholas Feltron, the design coaxes personal actions recorded by Facebook into a humane, emotional, interface for a given history1. Users can delve into their content not as images, notes, and…
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“Processing seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting them away...”
– Ben Fry and Casey Reas (via notational)
August 2011
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July 2011
8 posts
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller via Moritz Stefaner
June 2011
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May 2011
4 posts
“We believe that people who generate data through their own day-to-day activities...”
– Michael Zimbalist, vice president and the director of theTimes’ Research and Development Lab, who shared his thoughts on the implications for shutting off users’ access to their data, what can be gained from all this information and why the Lab decided to pursue openpaths.cc. (via poptech)
April 2011
5 posts
volume-control asked: funny you should "like" a post of mine just now as i was reading the nytimes story about you and data collecting
“In an uncharted world of boundless data, information designers are our new...”
– roomthily: When the Data Struts Its Stuff
March 2011
11 posts
