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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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? [...]

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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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Inspired by barack obama is your new bicycle as well as a few remixes of the same idea (e.g. McCain, Hillary, Steve Jobs) I felt like the meme was ignoring the elephant in the room. Hence, George W. Bush Wrecked Your New Bicycle
Note that (not unlike GWB’s presidency) the link doesn’t go anywhere. That [...]

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Kiva is so overwhelmed with lenders that its limiting loans so everyone has a chance.  Microfinance FTW!

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“What is Web Design and Where’s Its Canon?” seems to be the meta-meme of the moment: Bokardo replies to Vit, and Zeldman checks in too.  There may be a ways to go until a positive definition comes about (Zeldman attempts it, and he’s halfway there, but something feels like its missing), but its encouraging to [...]

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The remarkable thing isn’t what Miss Teen USA (South Carolina) says so much as the way she says it: as if she’s making any sense at all. There’s something almost inhuman about the way she mangles grammar without appearing to notice the violence she’s doing to language.

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