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Diagramming and generally great Flash resource.
Media Lab
Aug 2005
Samuel Wan has a lot of very helpful Flash demos on his site. He has taken the time to solve a lot of problems that many of us Designer/Developers come across over and over. I was particularly interested in Xilhouette 1.0 project. It is a live XML visualizer written in Flash. If your interested but don’t have an XML file handy try pasting the source view of this page into it. Quite a nice simple…
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Blood on the Wall and we like it
The Green Room
Aug 2005
Blood on the Wall has joined the Black Dice/13 & God lineup for the September show. They’re the brother/sister team of Courtney and Brand Shanks, with Miggy Littleton (of White Magic and Ida) on drums. It’ll be interesting to see how this all goes down in the McGuire. I have high hopes that people will appreciate really getting to hear the music, experience it in a different way.
Back to work with all…
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Research into diagramming methods
Media Lab
Aug 2005
I’m researching different diagramming methods today. Focussing especially on interactive diagrams of small data sets (20-100 items) using nodes and lines.
Focusing on one part of the diagram while minimizing the diagram around the peripherey is a powerful tool. The full hyperbolic tree model is geared toward large data sets but aspects of it could be used on a smaller set.
There is one center node…
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Rhizome member location now includes cities
Media Lab
Aug 2005
Rhizome.org, one of the leading new media arts organizations, recently added location sorting to it’s member index. Today I saw they pushed it a step further by adding a city grouping. This is a great addition to an already deep resource. They added a new pull down field for the city so I would encourage all you Rhizome members to go out there and add yourself to the nearest city. I just added…
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Visual Arts Blog
Media Lab
Aug 2005
The brand new Visual Arts Blog is off to a great start with their first post by Doryun Chong. Thats great documentation and a good read. Thanks Doryun!
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Competition between charts
Media Lab
Aug 2005
Doing some more trolling on the internet for successful blogging advice to share with my colleagues I found these two sites that track popularity of weblogs.
Truth Laid Bear claims to be “widely regarded as the definitive weblog ranking system” although truth be told I have always much prefered Technorati’s Top 100 page myself.
It’s interesting to note the discrepancy between the two charts…
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More Productive Blogging
Media Lab
Aug 2005
Doing a bit of research about more effective blogging turned up an article on how to be a more productive blogger by D. Keith Robinson. The To Done weblog itself seems like a deep resource thats worth more of a look.
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Our Blogs Reviewed
Media Lab
Aug 2005
Our blogs got a short write up on mnSpeak last week. The post is short to the point and generally honest. The author makes the point that no one at the Walker ” has decided to really own a genre”. This totally makes sense and started me thinking about what a successful blog was and maybe it was my chance to clarify our goals with the New Media Blog at least.
So what is a successful blog? You could say…