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What to Do with 2010’s Ideas for 2011 – Gems, Silt, Clouds, and Mañana
What can we do with all of our great, unwashed and unrinsed ideas from 2010 as we head into 2011?
Sleigh Bells — a safety device?
Many states passed laws requiring harness bells to announce the approach of sleighs to pedestrians and others.
Holiday Letters = Progressive Trends + Gender Parity and Power?
Here’s my headscratcher of the season: two nag holiday letters.
Collection of Digital Goodies This Week: Visualization, Productivity Alternatives, Download or Buy?
Google has made 500 million books now searchable online through this new tool.
The perfect local television station in the Internet era?
I have been watching the public dance about KCET and PBS squaring off about tithing rates for programming. This tension challenges some of KCET's biggest assets: goodwill and cross-promoted programming brands. KCET's potential future as an independent station...
Abundant Data Visualization and Storytelling Tools
As some of you know, I'm fairly anti-PowerPoint. Done well with engaging pictures and messaging, it can be a fabulous medium. Used by most people, it is a grinding parade of bullet points, read-aloud slides, and missed interactive thought. Presentations aren't...
But for a word — keywords in strange context
Keywords and taxonomies can bite us in the rear end. We spend lots of time making assumptions about what we know, but so much of the time we get tangled up in the unspoken assumptions around the labels. I am researching and writing on two arenas now. First, I'm...
Touching My Content – New Habits, Old Screens
I am enjoying my new iPad tremendously. I've gotten the hang of sliding my fingers to scroll, as well as pinching and unpinching to zoom in and out. Yet twice yesterday I turned to my lovely computer flatscreen on my desktop computer with the absentminded control...