Eyewire Game and Exquisite Forest
Citizen scientists and game designers might have had a moment of pride today. A round of surprised applause for the fact that a neuroscientist game, Eyewire, could temporarily be downed from … Continue reading
Designing Visual Lingo
A belated link pack with short ruminations: As the saying goes, a picture can convey a thousand words. Static photos can communicate unexpected concepts like these genetic portraits. I’ve been drawn … Continue reading
Moving Blogs
In the midst of attempting to port over all my historical posts since 2005 from connectingthedots.typepad.com to here. Hopefully the move will be a success. If so, there should be posts … Continue reading
“Occupy” Wall Street
As with most recent scaled protests, Occupy Wall Street has a virtual presence. The simple wearethe99percent tumblr highlights and aggregates stories of individuals in the movement. Moving beyond story sharing, some … Continue reading
Digitally Mediated Snail Mail
A few months ago, I tried a snail mail to email experiment. It stemmed from a backyard bbq conversation on how with cell phone texts, email was becoming snail mail, … Continue reading
Websites Missing Steve Jobs
Huge corporate websites rarely feel human and emotional, nor aware of other corporations. Steve Jobs inspired the landing pages of Apple and Google to momentarily feel so. Google linking directly to … Continue reading
