What’s a blog? A green monster living in your toilet, says illustrator
What’s a blog, I asked the FILU illustrator box at the Frankfurt book fair. The illustrator box was a machine comparable to the Mechanical Turk, only more fun: You could slide in a request for a visualization, i.e. ask for an image of something (I asked “what’s a blog”); you’d put a coin in a [...]
Timeline of Internet Memes
Dipity lets you create timelines of all things internet. One of them I liked particularly, and that’s this timeline of internet memes:
Enjoy sifting through those classics!
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CNN introduces embeddable video
CNN just introduced embeddable video. The CNN behind the Scenes blog has the details:
We are very happy to announce our latest move in that effort with the introduction of the CNN.com embeddable video player, a stand-alone video player that can be virally distributed by using a code snippet to embed on almost any site or [...]
The sun is Constantly Setting (watch it)
Out of Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino’s lab comes Constant Setting, a beautiful Flickr-based mashup. Constant Setting shows us photos (released under Creative Commons, tagged on Flickr with sunset and a location), from those places where the sun is setting right now. So what happens is, you get to see a never-ending flow of sunset photos from all [...]
Photographs changes video as we know it
The header seems somewhat to enthusiastic you say? Well, judge for yourself. A piece of software called Photographs from Washington University looks like it might seriously change the way we deal with video for good by combining video with high-resolution photo shots. Says Gizmodo:
Essentially, you shoot some crappy, low-rez video of a still scene. [...]
The Big Picture: Stories told in photos by Boston Globe
I don’t know how I could have missed The Big Picture, the Boston Globe’s amazing photo blog. (It has been around since June). The Big Picture tells stories by featuring stunning, awesome, sometimes scary (and always: huge, i.e. 990px wide) photos, put in context by a paragraph of text.
Waxy interviewed Alan Taylor, the programmer [...]
Aurora shows future user experience for the web (which rocks)
Aurora is Adaptive Path’s take on a possible future user experience for the Web. As you can see in the video below, it rocks.
Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
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Traditional media goes mobile streaming: Gannett & Mogulus?
As Techcrunch announced today, video streaming service Mogulus just got a big of extra cash ($10 million). What interesting here is who that money is coming from: Gannett, a major U.S. based publisher and very much a traditional media outlet:
[Garnett] publishes 85 daily newspapers, including USA TODAY, and nearly 900 non-daily publications. (…) The company [...]
Obama Berlin speech word cloud
Tim Bonnemann (Plansphere) ran Barack Obama’s Berlin speech through Wordle. A neat way to visualize the speech:
Netiquette in one picture
A lot of smart stuff has been written about netiquette and behavior in social networks, blogs etc. But when all is said and done, it boils down to this:
Photo by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (aka Designswarm)