CTOForADay.comThe Professional Journal of Gregory BlockStreet View goes live- May 30, 2007 Congratulations to the Street View team, they've done a brilliant job. I can't tell you how excited I've been about this, and for how long - it's got such huge potential, in terms of the wealth of features it makes possible. This is a really, really important step in mapping - it connects the road maps of the world with the landmarks we see and think in when we move from place to place. Have a look at the team that made this possible, and give them a virtual hug..http://www.ctoforaday.com/articles/000077.html The Art of Separation: Emos In Motion- May 19, 2007 I've come across one of the most beautifulsadstrange sites I've seen in a long time. Meet The Dumpster, a visualization tool whose data set is a collection of 20,000 breakups posted to Internet blogs during 2005. Lev Manovich, at the Tate website, describes it thusly: But if we simply limit ourselves to describing the work as it appears visually, we will miss the crucial characteristics of the social data browser constructed by Levin. We need to consider how the data presented in The Dumpster.http://www.ctoforaday.com/articles/000076.html |