Emily Chang - Design + Technology

Yesterday I wrote about the need for more integrated tools to organize the various bits of information that we need, use, and collect in our daily digital lives, both online and offline, work-related and personal. Read more...

In a recent blog post at O'Reilly, Giles Turnbull writes, "A while ago, I thought I'd try an experiment: could I organise all my work, all my personal stuff, all my writing, in one huge text file?" You may think he's crazy, but my first thought was "Cool! Another geek like myself who keeps everything in text files." Read more...

It seems that every week there's a new web application or service that allows you to organize another facet of your life online - then share it. Whether it's collecting bookmarks or books, photos or events, new social software sites and web applications are popping up that let you take your offline habits online, play show and tell, talk, mingle, socialize, and explore. Read more...

I've been keeping my life online at artcodes.com for a long time now, but I've decided to return artcodes to its roots as a place for my art experiments and personal life. Today I launched emilychang.com as my blog focused on strategic design and web. That's the plan anyway. Like life, a website tends to grow and evolve organically often despite our attempts to control it, so I'm taking this as an experiment to see where it leads me. Read more...

Continuing my search for new mapping technologies, I came across gVisit, another project developed using the Google map API. gVisit allows you to track visitors to your website using Google Maps. Read more...

Twenty-four hours ago, I was playing with IndyJunior and wishing I could add more real-time data to the map or share the data with someone in more ways than just a hover with text information (date, name, note). Ask the Internet and you shall receive. Read more...