Bending Content Buckets, or How I Currently Grab Content Worth Trying to Remember

a> I’ve been thinking about doing an updated post about how I find stuff on the online for a while. The internet was a lot simpler before I found myself getting throttled by my internet carrier who claims to be giving me fast internet. Back in the day I could open 70–90 sites easily via tabs. Now I’m lucky if 8–10 sites will open up at once. Typically three or four... Read More

Fixing Government Through Design

I received an interesting email from the SunlightFoundation with the information below. Looks like an interesting approach to fixing government with design. Creative? Tech Savvy? Got big ideas to make dull government design shine? Roll up your sleeves and Design for America! This 10 week contest sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation is YOUR chance to make government information... Read More

Trophies vs. Stats and Stories Created Through Data

I’m a fan of live data. It could be streaming news, tweets, photos or anything else that can be sliced and diced to be presented in a myriad of ways. If a site doesn’t have live data coming in I think the experience becomes stale. What I mean by live data is not neccessairly being updated by the second, but with the idea that if new information is available there’s... Read More

Meaningful Data from Old Blue Chips

With a lot of attention being paid to those that are converting data into something meaningful as New York Magazine points out in Tweet Tweet Boom Boom (which has a couple cool shout outs to Alex Rainert in the article), I had to wonder about the old blue chip guys that always had data though maybe have never used it in a meaningful social way. Two companies that come to mind... Read More