Playing Pandora vs Vevo on the iPhone, or better known as random things I might like vs start/stop of selected artist
Just as the title suggests I was curious to examen how these two on demand media types benefit and distract people that want to enjoy music. Pandora allows a person to search for an artist and stream music from their choice along with other that sound similar. In theory the stream will play as long as someone wants. If they want to advance to a mystery next track they can, but... Read More
Can We Date—the Illustrative Guide
I like this story for a couple reasons. I found it via Twitter from the person that actually designed it. The illustration is perfectly balanced between narrative and visuals. I can look at it more than once and it is going to have the same consistent impact. I also wanted to post about it so I can have the .png in my own database. Just press (or click if you’re not on an... Read More
A Couple Angles About Education During This Economy of Online Scale
This is one of those posts that came together after reading and viewing three different angles concerning education. It made sense to lump them together to show the spectrum of where education might be headed. I remember watching the video from Salman Khan first. My thoughts after that were if a person was really motivated they could really teach themselves more than a person that... Read More
Awesome Food Truck Chart from New York Magazine
I’ve always been a fan of illustrated vehicles, but this collection of food trucks in New York from New York Magazine takes it to a new level of usefulness and aesthetic interestingness. Hopefully next year they can include carts like http://twitter.com/CalexicoCart. Read More
INTERVIEW: Sougwen
I first met Sougwen at Joey Roth’s Sounds Like talk. She had been invited by Joey to draw on a set of speakers and was on the panel to talk about it. I really liked what she had drawn on the speaker so over the weekend I took a closer look at her drawings. Later that week I interviewed her hoping that our conversation would shed some light on why I liked her work. Below... Read More
Link Drop from May 22nd to June 4th 2010
Last week I ran out of time so this week I’ve included most of the non time sensitive links that I would have published last week. Time is flying by it seems, is it for you? I still remember when it was April and now it’s almost the middle of June. I’ve been following a lot of data vis. stuff along with a bit of tech which is sort of predictable at this point... Read More
A Different Kind of Early Adopter Tax
A lot has been said about early adopters and specifically iPad early adopters. People that buy Apple things have come to expect that their first editions will go down in price and functionality months after they buy the first release. With the iPad it was also understood that some web sites wouldn’t work properly because Apple doesn’t allow flash. I didn’t care... Read More
Wired Magazine the App
I’ve only had a couple minutes with the new Wired Magazine App. As much as I wanted to hate it, it’s actually pretty good. Overall my first impression is that it feels more like a book than magazine which is cool. Biggest issue aside from not being able to share individual articles is that I can’t zoom in on everything. Aside from that, I was disappointed to read... Read More
Faces Sculpted into Jewelry
Of all the things that I saw Sunday, the idea behind Cameo by Rux was something that I remembered distinctly. The giant blob is actually the profile of each of the people on the US dollars ($1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 & $100). Reading the press release afterwards Russell Greenberg was quoted as saying “The experience of discovering specific meaning in something that appears... Read More
Old School Media Consumption Today
Media doesn’t get much older than music & books. In the past week I’ve been keeping an eye out for how my own methods of enjoying music and reading have evolved since buying an iPad. The biggest thing that I’m trying to learn is how and if I’m doing anything differently that two weeks ago I wouldn’t have been able to do or could do but in a different... Read More
