I’ve started writing for a tech blog called LiveDigitally.com and my first post is up! It’s incredibly nerdy. Go check it out!

Eavesdropping on the Metro North conductor chatting with an old-timer:  “I wouldn’t go to a game if you gave me free tickets.  I watch it on TV, but all they’ve got for me is overpriced merchandise and expensive food.  And the corporate guys get boxes with $1000 seats.”  The old-timer’s trying to talk him down, but he’s having none of it. Professional sports are just about over as the pastime of the working- and middle-class.

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.

I’d like to add that I’ve recently found a highly cogent rationale/alabi for posting this raw, sloppy, first-draft-of-history note-taking in Clay Shirky’s notion of “first publish, then sort”.See? Its not just that I can’t be bothered to edit…it’s the 21st century way!

080623 Personal Democracy Forum

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Wow.

Notes from the 24th installment in AIGA’s Fresh Dialog lecture series, In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed.

THE VISUAL ETHICS REQUIRED IN INFORMATION GRAPHICS INCREASE THE DESIGNER’S BURDEN FROM FAITHFUL EXECUTOR TO EDITORIAL ARBITER.

How do design choices affect the integrity of the data being portrayed? Can information graphics and the designers who create them ever claim pure objectivity? John Maeda, newly appointed president of RISD, world-renowned designer and innovator, will engineer a conversation with three designers who specialize in visualizing information. Steve Duenes guides the New York Times graphics group in print and online; Andrew Kuo cleverly quantifies feelings through his meticulous charts and diagrams; Fernanda Viégas explores the social side of visualization at IBM. Together they will examine a range of current and anticipated trends in visual journalism: judicious simplicity over seductive complexity, data- and story-driven visuals, and the increasing demand for dynamic versus static information visualization.

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I want to keep an eye on what my friend Becky is posting over at the CraftZine blog, but the feed is a little too high-traffic for me. It only took about 2 minutes to whip up a Yahoo! Pipe that filters out all the other authors posts.

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.

080315 BarcampNYC3 Day 1

How to Fund Yr Startup 1230

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I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.

080229 Clay Shirky Book Release for Here Comes Everybody @ ITP

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I attend all sorts of lectures & conferences and have taken notes for years, but never get around to posting them. Because I find the useful myself, & because I hope they’ll be useful for others, I’ll be releasing them here under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States license.

These notes should be regarded as primary sources. They’re quick, rough, often verbatim accounts of whatever held my interest about a given speech, panel, or lecture. I occasionally go back and neaten them up a bit, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. The structure, quality& fidelity of these notes vary widely. Enjoy.

Posting notes that were taken years ago poses an information architecture question: should the notes be cataloged by the date recorded, or the date posted? I’ve consulted with a few library-science-friends, who made the point that the date posted is really only of interest to someone studying my laziness. Therefore I will post the notes under the date recorded, with a notice of the date posted and a link to this explanatory note.