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CSA - AuroraMAX Project - Live broadcast of the... →

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“Modernist abstraction was in some sense antivisual—reducing the diversity of...”

– Manovich, Lev. “Data Visualization as New Abstraction and as Anti-Sublime.” Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Eds. Byron Hawk, David Reider, and Ollie Oviedo. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2008. 3–9. Print. (via bradtober)

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visualizing.org →

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Online Passwords Could Be a Map

At least one computer scientist thinks there’s a better way to get access to your online accounts. At the New York Institute of Technology Cyber Security Conference, AT&T researcher Bill Cheswick described how users could memorize the exact spot on a satellite photo, with the longitude and latitude serving as the access code. Just clicking on that spot would let you into the website, no...

Sep 30th

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Sep 29th

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Notes from Playful10, London

Then Sebastian Deterding gave an insightful analysis of “gameification and its discontents”. He started by asserting that there’s a disease currently on the web: the “badge measle”, i.e. the pervasive presence of rewards such as badges. These are being given for tons of reasons ranging from posting a blogpost to watching a TV channel. It is as if points and other rewards were given to achieve...

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Journalism in the Age of Data →

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This is a news website article about a scientific... →

science: This tiny paragraph will, as per usual, attempt to describe the research in layman’s terms, perhaps sprinkled with a few topical wiki links. The description will lean heavily on the work of other writers, while somehow appearing to be original. Further, it will extrapolate some kind of philosophical or feel-good point that, if you think about it, isn’t really relevant to anything. To...

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Jan S. Krogh's GeoSite →

information about geographical places as enclaves, border points (also tripoints) and other interesting geographical places.

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