Karla Kitalong

Internet Archive

2006-05-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

I just found, again, the Internet Archive site that has movies, audio, movies of gaming interactions, and other cool stuff. Need to find it again. The Game Videos are especially useful for me, trying to understand gaming without really being much of a gamer.

http://www.archive.org/details/gamevideos

Famously manipulated photographs

2006-03-11T08:02:00.000-08:00

This is an interesting site I keep losing track of, so I'm pasting it here. It's
from "the lowercase world of sreenath sreenivasan," who is dean of students & professor at columbia journalism school, tech guru at WABC-TV, and co-founder of the south asian journalists association as well as a columnist at poynter.org.

This site archives famous examples of manipulated photographs, such as Brian Walski's images of the Gulf War, the Time and Newsweek covers that featured O.J. Simpson's mugshot and the altering of Mrs. McCaughey's teeth.

http://www.sree.net/teaching/photoethics.html

DesignGeek

2006-02-25T18:24:00.000-08:00

Well, likely no one's reading this blog for the latest news. My bad.

Here is a site I just learned about. It looks like tool tips and other useful info.

http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/

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Tips and techniques for the digital designer

Fun Usability Site

2005-10-20T20:27:00.000-07:00

I think I'm out of touch. Here's a site that I've heard of but never looked at before: http://headrush.typepad.com/. It includes entertaining and informative usability content.

Central Florida Memory Project

2005-09-14T06:41:00.000-07:00

Check out the Central Florida Memory Project at http://www.cfmemory.org/

According to the main page,

Central Florida Memory is a unique digital collection of material contributed by partner institutions to create a virtual place where visitors can discover what Central Florida was like before theme parks and the space program. Diaries and letters describe the region and how people survived day-by-day in this extreme and rugged environment. Maps, photographs, and postcards illustrate how the region looked in the early years and how it changed over time. Voters’ registration and funeral records and city directories provide demographic information that makes the picture of the Central Florida settler come into focus.

Usability blog with good information

2005-08-23T15:40:00.000-07:00

http://experiencedynamics.blogs.com/

Frank Spillers is a web and software usability expert. His company is http://www.experiencedynamics.com/.

Gender and Web Design

2005-08-11T16:23:00.000-07:00

Key Website Research Highlights Gender Bias

02 August 2005

A first-of-its-kind study conducted by experts at the University of Glamorgan has proved that men and women really are poles apart when it comes to what catches their eye on the internet.

Go here for the rest of the article http://www.glam.ac.uk/news/releases/003056.php

Visual Representations of Complex Data

2005-08-07T21:24:00.000-07:00

Two sites that offer visual representations of important news stories, and descriptions from the sites' "About" pages.

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.

http://www.tenbyten.org/info.html

Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

Sources.

Currently, 10x10 gathers its data from the following news sources:

Reuters World News
BBC World Edition
New York Times International News

Information Aesthetics

2005-08-05T14:15:00.000-07:00

Infosthetics: form follows data - towards creative information visualization
http://infosthetics.com/

Description from the site's "About" page:

Inspired by Manovich's definition of information aesthetics, this weblog explores the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization, in an emergent multidisciplinary field what could be coined as 'creative information visualization'.

Artifact -- An Online Compilation of Design Sources

2005-07-24T08:23:00.000-07:00

The June 2005 issue of Artifact, "the arts and creative industries subject hub," can be found here: http://www.artifact.ac.uk/news/newsletters/june05.htm

Among the interesting sections of this "hub" are an article on copyright, as well as links to Image Banks and to Teaching, Learning, and Research resources.

Wiki Drawing Tool

2005-07-24T08:17:00.000-07:00

This seems like an interesting idea, although I haven't explored it much. I found it in the Design Research News, an e-mail publication that I receive.

http://www.wikidraw.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS
Volume 10 Number 7, Jul 2005
ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org

Visual Culture photography exhibit

2005-07-24T08:06:00.000-07:00

The Twinkie Exhibit, as found on MSNBC and apparently reported by the Associated Press: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7182443/.

My favorite concept, although I haven't seen the image, is described this way in the article:

Archie Carpenter’s piece, “When the Twinkie Is Gone,” consists of nine different images on foam boards, each image the bits of cake left after the Twinkie is peeled from its backing.

Reuters Information Graphics page

2005-07-23T15:29:00.000-07:00

Includes an interactive presentation about how Reuters develops an information graphic:

http://about.reuters.com/pictures/graphics/

Information Graphics

2005-07-23T15:23:00.000-07:00

Information Graphics from PBS's Now with host David Brancaccio:
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/infographics.html

Design Observer

2005-07-23T15:15:00.000-07:00

Design Observer, an online journal: http://www.designobserver.com/

Slate Article on the Design of the Periodic Table of the Elements

2005-07-23T15:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.slate.com/id/2122919/

Links Posted in Recent Design Research News

2005-06-06T03:31:00.000-07:00

I get a monthly online publication called Design Research News. The latest issue was in my e-mail this morning.

DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS
ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org

I'm including here some of the many excellent links from the Web section of
Volume 10 Number 6, Jun 2005.

The latest Artifact Newsletter - April 2005 is now available online at: http://www.artifact.ac.uk/news/newsletters/may05.htm
Emotions, thinking: keep track of the evolution in the discussion of these topics, why not sign up to ENGAGE http://www.engage-design.org
thinkiD by think3: next-generation of its computer-aided-design system http://www.dexigner.com

Howtoons

2005-05-08T13:38:00.000-07:00

http://www.howtoons.org/

From the intro to the site:

What and why are Howtoons?

Howtoons are one-page cartoons showing 5-to-15 year-old kids "How To" build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone fun adventure accessible to all, including the pre-literate. Our Howtoons are designed to encourage children to be active participants in discovering the world through Play-that-Matters -- fun, creative, and inventive -- and to rely a lot less on mass-consumable entertainment.

Improving on the Design of the New Food Pyramid

2005-05-06T16:34:00.000-07:00

Slate Magazine offers a critique of the new USDA food pyramid and suggests some alternatives.
http://slate.com/id/2117642/

Design Process Animation

2005-05-06T07:16:00.000-07:00

An animated gif that shows a blog being built and "styled":

http://mboffin.com/stuff/designline-openair.gif

See a blog entry and some interesting comments about this animation at http://mboffin.com/post.aspx?id=1619

AT&T "You Will" Ads

2005-03-13T07:40:00.000-08:00

The AT&T "You Will" Ad Campaign is online at
http://ad-rag.com/114815.php.

Schriver Tax Form Redesign

2005-01-26T15:14:00.000-08:00

An article published Communication Arts, January/February 2005, discusses Karen Schriver's redesign of the 1040 tax form. An online version can be found here:

http://www.commarts.com/ca/coldesign/johE_261.html

Semiotics for Beginners

2005-01-19T07:30:00.000-08:00

The online version of Daniel Chandler's Semiotics for Beginners.

Newspaper Front Pages

2005-01-15T06:53:00.000-08:00

There are a number of sites that display newspaper front pages. Here are some of them:

General

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Special Events

The Orlando Sentinel's collection of newspaper front pages about the Columbia shuttle disaster.

http://www.newsdesigner.com/archives/000269.php
Front pages about the 2004 Florida hurricane season

http://www.poynterextra.org/extra/gallery2002/
Front pages about 9-11

Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think"

2005-01-15T06:30:00.000-08:00

The Atlantic Monthly apparently now charges for all of its archival articles, but "As We May Think" is available at this URL, with permission http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~dduchier/misc/vbush/awmt.html

Online Ad Archives

2004-12-19T06:30:00.000-08:00

On the cultural studies list a while back, someone posted a query about ad archives. Here are some of the ones people offered:

The Gender Ads Project has 3,000 or so ads, all focused on issues of gender (http://www.genderads.com).
At http://www.coudal.com, you'll find a link to the museum of on-line museums (http://www.coudal.com/moom.php), featuring links to various quirky
collections.
70s ads for grownups:
- mpgs (http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/video/video.html)
- audio files (http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/adulttv/adulttv.html).
The Wayback Machine and other Internet archives can be found at http://www.archive.org

InfoVis.net

2004-12-17T17:26:00.000-08:00

Well, here's something I found by accident! It looks like an interesting site, with an e-zine that leads with an article about bar graphs. Net echoing life, once again.

http://www.infovis.net/index.php?lang=2

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Coverage of Karen Schriver's IRS 1040 Revision

2004-12-16T19:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.jsonline.com/bym/your/apr04/222255.asp

When the FreeP Altered the Detroit Skyline

2004-12-16T19:29:00.000-08:00

Here's the article that describes it, with a link that compares the original photograph with the altered one.

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/super10_20040210.htm

World Trade Center Coverage from NYT

2004-12-16T19:21:00.000-08:00

This page includes some of the design ideas for rebuilding the site.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/index.html

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

2004-12-14T19:17:00.000-08:00

This site includes instructional and technical visuals that the compiler thinks are weird. A lot of the weirdness comes from the captions added by the compiler.

http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/hall/

Landscapes of Capital

2004-12-14T16:32:00.000-08:00

From the intro to the site:

This is a project about public, commercial representations of Global High-Tech Capital. We are interested in how space/time (speed), capital and globalization are represented in corporate television advertising.

http://it.stlawu.edu/%7Eglobal/pagesintro/scapehome.html"

Includes many TV ads in a keyword-searchable database.

The Ad*Access Project, at Duke University

2004-12-14T15:56:00.000-08:00

This site is interesting for its searchable archive of historical print ads.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

Poynter.com

2004-12-12T08:10:00.000-08:00

Poynter.com is a site for journalists, but I find it incredibly useful and generative.

http://www.poynter.org/.

I especially like the Design/Graphics and Photojournalism sections for their relevance to work that I do.

Just today, the main story in the Writing/Editing section is about using punctuation to control pace and space--how fast or slow a reader reads. This is relevant to the work I'm doing on editing functions in new media products.

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75398

Hurricane Cartoons (from Slate)

2004-12-11T06:05:00.000-08:00

The following is a compilation of cartoons comemmorating the 2004 Florida Hurricanes.

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/HurricaneCharley/main.asp

Medical Illustrations

2004-12-10T13:06:00.000-08:00

My interests seem all over the place. Here's my favorite site for inspiration concerning medical illustration. Heed the copyright agreement that comes up when you link to the Medical Illustration Sourcebook.

http://medical-illustrators.org/

A dictionary of information graphics

2004-12-10T13:03:00.000-08:00

This site, although not designed so well, has some interesting examples on it.

http://cccw.adh.bton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/LInfDes.html

Information Design Sites

2004-12-09T05:37:00.000-08:00

Nathan Shedroff's site http://www.nathan.com/

An online information design journal http://www.informationdesign.org/

AIGA's Design Forum http://designforum.aiga.org/
Check out their cross-cultural design link.

Online Tech Comm Handbook

2004-12-09T05:32:00.000-08:00

Mayfield Publishing online tech comm handbook by Perelman, Paradis, and Barrett.

http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/tsw/home.htm

The link was posted on the ATTW-L e-mail list this morning by Leslie C. Perelman.

U of Iowa Visual Comm / Visual Rhets site

2004-12-08T06:31:00.000-08:00

The University of Iowa's Department of Communication Studies hosts a set of visual rhetoric links. I was there looking for publication ideas for a paper on my grandma's family photographs.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/visual.html

Dana Lipp

2004-12-07T07:56:00.000-08:00

Dana Lipp is a photographer who creates scientific images.

His site is at http://www.danalipp.us

Among my favorite images is this one, because of the way the words "In God we trust" and "Liberty" intervene in my ability to see the image as a "neutral" illustration.

http://www.danalipp.us/scientific/scientific%2011302.htm"

Introduction

2004-12-06T11:56:00.000-08:00

I've been plagued by forgetfulness, by scattered bits of brilliance, by lost resources. A blog, I thought, would allow me conveniently to keep all those lost and scattered fragments in one place. Thus, I began. And my first post is a link to http://historywired.si.edu/index.html which is a nifty interface at the Smithsonian. At some point, I may say more. Right now, I just want to see whether and if so how this all works for me.