So forget the ants from Pi. You know, the ones that produced the stock-market-predicting, answer-to-life-having goo? Ya those. They’re so a decade ago. All you need now to predict the stock market is Charlie Sheen’s #winning and what Justin Bieber is eating for lunch. Really.
Method is gradually rolling out beautifully designed white papers illustrating insights they’ve gained over their first 10 years of operation. I just read David vs. Goliath which is about OTT services (like Hulu, Boxee, etc.) vs. Big Cable. Aside: if you’ve noticed food network briefly being unavailable or the threat that ABC 7 will leave [...]
I was having a discussion last night with Liz when she brought up an article in the latest GQ Magazine in which the author rails on the different archetypes being played out by certain individuals on popular social network sites. As we were talking it occurred to me that it all started back in ’92 [...]
Why doesn’t this: Look more like this: Push and Play Or even this: Well Formed Eigenfactor™ ?
Cathching up on some blog-reading I stumbled across this link. The post, Information Visualization Manifesto, is more “10-tips” than Manifesto, but still a valuable read nonetheless. Though I do have one (sort of major) qualm. Manuel Lima writes: The power of Narrative Human beings love stories and storytelling is one of the most successful and [...]
Inspired by another Omar Post, I started thinking about Glitch and it’s origins. Contrary to what Omar’s post posits, I think the underpinnings of Glitch can be traced back to DaDa by way of Fluxism. Here’s what I’m thinking… In response to Omar’s theory that: I imagine it emerged as a reaction to the visible [...]