4 days ago
deusx : Ambient News at Toolness - "a Firefox Extension called “Ambient News”, and its goal is to provide the user with zero-cost news about the sites that they visit frequently. The extension requires no configuration; you just install it and see if it helps you out."
# copy
1 month ago
Linkorama : Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To "Inspire And Engage" Community - If that's part of the future, I'm looking forward to it
# copy
1 month ago
Cameron Moll : Balsamiq Mockups - Balsamiq Mockups. Not sure how to describe this, but it's like sketching, really rapid prototyping, OmniGraffle with UI stencils, and Photoshop all in one. Worth a try, I suppose.
Richard Rutter : Balsamiq Mockups - Intriguing: sort of like doing pencil wireframes in Omnigraffle.
# copy
1 month ago
Andy Baio : Derek Powazek's 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments - solid suggestions that would lead to a massive short-term decrease in comments, for the better
Richard Rutter : 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments - Good solid sense from the man Powazek. In particular: Participate… Get your writers involved in the conversation.
# copy
2 month ago
Richard Rutter : Graph Paper - Graph paper for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. Useful for wireframing UIs, story boarding, interaction etc..
# copy
2 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete: "Learning to use a "computer" of this scale may be challenging. But the opportunity is great..."
Linkorama : The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - Sounds like yet another kind of model to me
# copy
3 month ago
Richard Rutter : Web Use Project - Lots of research into how people use the Web in their everyday lives.
# copy3 month ago
Richard Rutter : Adding richness to activity streams - Useful thinking form the man Messina.
# copy3 month ago
Linkorama : Information is a means to an end - If there is no meta-information, the information might not even be found at all thus having no value even though the potential value might be enormous.
# copy
4 month ago
Linkorama : Information Arbitrage and the Window of Opportunity - This is a similar point to what I was attempting to make in my Content = Community post in that until people *do* something with information, it might as well not exist in terms of value.
# copy
5 month ago
joshua : Random Etc. - Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About
Richard Rutter : Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About - Aide-memoire.
# copy
5 month ago
Linkorama : Streaming and Batching - (BTW I honestly didn't intend for this to be a post about RSS - let alone Enterprise RSS - but its funny how it comes back to RSS afterall!)
# copy
5 month ago
Richard Rutter : UI That Really Cares - Incorporating ‘emotional state’ into a bug report.
# copy
5 month ago
Richard Rutter : Flickr: Find your friends - Nice, simple design pattern for OAuth.
# copy
6 month ago
Richard Rutter : Understanding abandonment - How thoughtful ‘checkout’ design pays dividends.
# copy7 month ago
Linkorama : California Court Wipes Wikileaks.org Out of Existence - One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks has upset the Chinese government enough that they are attempting to censor it, as is the Thai military junta. Wikileaks is now under attack from a censorship effort by
# copy7 month ago
Richard Rutter : Award-winning newspaper designs - some great infographics and design in here.
Khoi Vinh : Smashing Magazine: Sampling of Award-winning Newspaper Designs
# copy
7 month ago
adamrg : Washington State Democrats - Caucus Information Center - If you live in WA and vote Dem, your ballot doesn't matter -- you must attend your caucus to have your voice heard.
# copy
8 month ago
adamrg : Google Generation - The 2mb research summary at the bottom of the page is the real prize on this page.
# copy
8 month ago
Richard Rutter : Feltron Annual Report is out - Lovely typographical infographics.
Andy Baio : Feltron Annual Report 2007 - like previous years, designer Nicholas Felton presents his life as a corporate report [via]
Khoi Vinh : Feltron 2007 Annual Report - Just as excellent as last year᾿s.
# copy
8 month ago
Richard Rutter : Data Visualization and Infographics - Some nice stuff from Smashing Magazine.
# copy
8 month ago
Linkorama : Information Ownership in an Information Economy - Information is going to be like money. And we’re going to move it around like money. [We already are.] Institutions that hold information are going to be like banks. With a variety of services, and with rights and duties associated with our information,
# copy
8 month ago
adamrg : Charts | Worth a thousand words - Excellent graphic representations of complex historical data. Sort of puts excel charts to shame.
gleuschk : Charts | Worth a thousand words | Economist.com - I didn't know about 2 out of 3 of these
# copy
9 month ago
Linkorama : Information Overload Costs - He estimates that such disruptions cost the U.S. economy $650 billion in 2006.
# copy
9 month ago
Linkorama : Imposed Stupidity, Emergent Intelligence - With examples of Subversion and Git, this makes me wonder if distributing commit access isn't distributing decision making, but distributing information and the ability to produce
# copy
