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(via Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles” | Video on TED.com)
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History of Science Fiction – a hand-drawn graphic chronology by Ward Shelley mapping the literary genre from its nascent roots in mythology to the calcified post-Star Wars era.
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Map of scientific collaboration from 2005 to 2009 collabo.olihb.com
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Petrus Apianus - Astronomicum Caesareum - Ingolstadt, 1540 - volvelle
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A prominent digital designer was in Tokyo recently, and shared a story about an experience he had in his neighborhood in London. He decided to embark on a journey to as many antique shops as possible, and to purchase antiques with particularly romantic stories attached to them. Unexpectedly, each of the shopkeepers surprised him with a consistent response to his question, “Tell me about this object.” The dominant responses being, “Well, it’s *old*.” Or, “It’s from the 1800s, and is really *old*.”
He found this response of “it’s old” (and therefore it’s *good*) quite puzzling. And then got to thinking how as a digital, “new media” person folks would ask him about his work to which he would respond, “It’s digital. It’s *new*.” And by the same token, implicitly, it’s *good.* He realized that neither “new” nor “old” are sufficient rationales to express quality. That the quality of “good” is something more. Like this story he related. It’s a good one, for certain. -JM -
Time Spent Alone →
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List of persons considered father or mother of a field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
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Impure is a visual programming language aimed to gather, process and visualize information. With impure is possible to obtain information from very different sources; from user owned data to diverse feeds in internet, including social media data, real time or historical financial information, images, news, search queries and many more. Impure is a tool to be in touch with data around internet, to deeply understand it. Within a modular logic interface you can quickly link information to operators, controls and visualization methods, bringing all the power of the comprehension of information and knowledge to the not programmers that want to work with information in a professional way.
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Designs On- A playground without constraints →
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The End of Network Graph Hairballs: Linear Network Layouts - the linear network layout technique constrains the nodes to linear axes, while edges are drawn as curves between these nodes. The position of a node is determined solely by network structure, node, edge annotation, or any other meaningful properties of the network. In other words, layout rules are defined by the designer, based on what properties that are meaningful and important. As a result, if the layout shows a pattern, one can be sure it is due to structure in the underlying data and not on the layout algorithm’s interpretation of how the data should best be shown.
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SiloBreaker
Silobreaker is an automated search service for news and current affairs that aims to provide more relevant results to the user than what traditional search and aggregation engines have been offering so far. Instead of returning just lists of articles matching a search query, Silobreaker finds people, companies, organizations, topics, places and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, and puts them in context through graphical results in its intuitive user interface. The search result pages look similar to an online newspaper but are generated without human editing.
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Journalisme de liens et schéma de propagation de l’information via uploads.bienbienbien.net
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DIKW : Data Information Knowledge Wisdom by Sean Wood | Freeworld Media
