Archive for the 'Visualization' Category

Information R/evolution

Published on April 27, 2008 in Research, Social Software, Technology and Visualization. 0 Comments Tags: video, web 2.0.

Another stirring video ethnography of the Web from Michael Wesch, anthropologist of mediated cultures and creator of The Machine is Us/ing Us.

This one looks at the material redefinition of information in the digital participatory age.

Put things in perspective

Published on February 10, 2008 in Visualization. 0 Comments

Perspective

Google hits the streets

Published on May 29, 2007 in Geo, Related sites, Social Software, Technology and Visualization. 0 Comments

Here are a couple of adjacent images from Google’s new ‘Street View’ in GoogleMaps.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Light at the End of the Tunnel

As of this writing, you can walk the streets of New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami–maybe more. The automated stitching of panoramas from different days and times makes for some high-tech surrealist photography. Continuing the twisted translation of reality into the Googleverse…. Just wait until these are fed by realtime surveillance/web cameras and the most-recent geotagged Flickr photos.