Archive for March, 2009

Information Design Gone Wild

30Mar09

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Noth­ing of him that doth fade, But doth suf­fer a sea-change Into some­thing rich and strange. — from Ariel’s Song, The Tem­pest by William Shake­speare I loved the almost anal-retentive dis­play of data through a heads-up […]

Will Japan Take Off Because of Broadband Price and Speed?

28Mar09

I noticed a fas­ci­nat­ing cou­ple of graphs in an arti­cle on the blog World Pol­i­tics Review, Top 30 Coun­tries for Broad­band Inter­net Access. One of them showed Japan’s astound­ing aver­age Inter­net speed: Japan shows an impres­sive 60 megabits per sec­ond speed (I’m assum­ing this is for down­load as well as upload?) with Korea not far […]

Robert Fabricant says ‘Behavior is our Medium’

21Mar09

I was lucky enough to be in the audi­ence when the Exec­u­tive Cre­ative Direc­tor at frog Design gave a spec­tac­u­lar keynote with tons of fas­ci­nat­ing notions and exam­ples at the Inter­ac­tive Design Asso­ci­a­tion (IXDA) Con­ven­tion in Van­cou­ver last month. In fact, there’s proof I was there, at about the 19th minute, when the cam­era caught […]