Emily Chang - Blog

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...

A round-up of some articles and ideas that I've enjoyed recently with a focus on global change, community, action, and design thinking. Read more...

On Thursday, the US House of Representatives rejected an amendment that would have kept large telecommunications broadband providers from being able to treat Internet sites differently. Read more...

Over on his blog, web.XpunktNull.de, Klaas Bollhoefer has an interview series that will interest eHub readers and Web 2.0 users, especially those that speak German. "Inspired by your interviews, which I love and read regularly, I started a german interview series on my blog with the people behind german Web 2.0 services" writes Klaas. Since April, he's already interviewed twenty companies. Read more...

Despite the recent news that even newspaper prose is search engine optimized, I'm sticking with my own obtuse title today. Sometimes the web moves so quickly it's hard to keep up with the explosion of ideas both big and small. I recommend reading the following for a snapshot of the web as we know it (this week) and where it might be heading. Read more...

While there have been many seminal posts on Web 2.0 in the last several months, I strongly recommend reading "Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?" by Bryan Alexander, Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). Thanks to Bryan for the mention of eHub at the end of the article, and thanks to Max for sending the article my way tonight. Read more...