January 2009
35 posts
WatchBarack Obama is sworn into Office - seen by some Americans wathing the inauguration together.
Also www.whitehouse.gov updated, and the new president apparently has a blog too: www.whitehouse.gov/blog/
Self promotion with data - a new thing?
CR January Issue writes about self promotion using data visualization. Maybe this is a sign that it’s now “mainstream” with designers and Feltron surely has done it since 2005.
However, I just realized that I was doing this already in 2004 when I was studying in Australia. I wrote a digital diary and collected daily amounts of beer, coffee, photos and variables for mood and...
WatchKevin Rose tells us why downturn can be good. Via www.tippingeurope.com
WatchBathtub II by Keith Loutit - very nice miniturization of real world. And it’s from Sydney which is nice.
WatchHot to do game reviews: Tombraider Underworld by Zero Punctuation
WatchPalm Pré UI demo. It seems Palm could make a comeback from the grave with this device. Looks great and innovative despite the blurry video. Building on top of iPhone concepts perhaps, but that’s how it’s gonna be going forward from here.
I specially like the automatic phonebook pictures coming from Facebook, Gmail, etc. and dragging the applications around and closing them by...
WatchImpressive image seach technology from Idée Inc.
Old magazines I'd like to read
“Columbian Centinel, Boston, Aug. 9, 1794. Page 2: “Battle on the Frontiers” tells of an attack by 1,000 Indians on an escort near Fort Recovery. Page 3 has a brief item mentioning the Whiskey Rebellion and says, “obedience to the laws of the People must be effected by the point of the bayonet.” The rebellion is considered the first real test of the power of the newly...
My New Years resolutions for 2009
Keep more in touch with the family.
Go walking more and take photos.
Take more time to go to the gym.
Dedicate a specific time to compose music and release it on julesnerve.com.
Learn Adobe Air.
Learn Processing.
Do mashups and visualizations.
Survive the recession.
WatchBritain From Above - A Best of The Best example of data visualization.