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I came across this post while looking for information on attention recording and one of the paragraphs regarding self-documentary really resonated with me. Read more...

A few months ago I was asked by Tom Markiewicz, CEO of EvolvePoint, to be on a panel about "Using RSS for Marketing" for the SXSW Interactive Conference coming up March 9-13 and I gladly accepted. Read more...

I was glad to see two interesting initiatives this week related to women and girls in technology. The first was Entrepreneurial Night by Girls' Middle School in Mountain View and held at Google. Ten groups of seventh grade girls made their pitches to a room full of venture capitalists. Read more...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been thinking about different aspects of data visualization (see an earlier post). Read more...

I added Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA) to eHub back in December. The free service provides a quick visual preview of a site whenever you roll over an external link. This lets you get a quick glimpse of the sites I'm linking to. In eHub, this also makes it easier to browse the list and associate a name with the visual recognition of the site preview. Read more...

In an excellent article at the Adobe Design Center site, David Womack describes the significance of one visualization in "Seeing is believing: Information visualization and the debate over global warming." Womack describes the considerations around presenting visualizations of global warming in Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth. There are lessons here for us as both consumers of information and as designers. Read more...

The best way to present or analyze a design would be to record the desktop of an entire design cycle so that people (users, clients, developers, customers, etc.) can see the entire process that led up to the final prototype. Today's designer works in a varied environment between screengrabs, layout, code, browser, chat: a hybrid approach with a process that's fluid and hyperreal. I've yet to see a true representation of the design process. Maybe I'll try to document a design lifecycle using recorded desktop video. Might run into size limitations. Read more...

Seems like I'm not the only one working on new site developments on a Saturday evening. As I'm re-architecting and working on what I want to add in 2007, it seems Twitter and Flickr are also at work :) Read more...

As we amass more and more data, it seems only natural that we'll need new methods to navigate this space. Jeff Han's multi-touch screen is impressive. I don't know if it's the best way to manipulate all types of data or more fine-grained scenarios, but it clearly opens up possibilities for using a wide range of motion and touch. I would love to use this in the design process for rapid re-organization of elements and trying out different types of flow. For photo or video-editing and other types of narrative storytelling, the multi-touch would be incredible. Read more...

This morning I checked my feeds and stats and various web searches and saw a referrer from WipBox, an application I had added to eHub. The long tail at work... Read more...

Came across these two Chinese proverbs tonight while looking through old notes. Read more...