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March 07 2012
1 day of Internet
Internet… that esoteric, futurist and amazing mesh of technology, content and things. THE thing that connects us all and it’s ever more pervasive and omnipresent in our lifes, we seem to not get enough of it… the proof? Something that stills keeps me amazed, by the sheer numbers of it, the information we produced on, say, 1 day of internet:
February 07 2012
Robot Readable World
As robots begin to inhabit the world alongside us, how do they see and gather meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us?
Read more about it @BERG
January 25 2012
March 09 2011
MIT Media Lab Identity
Richard The & “The Green Eyl” new visual identity for the MIT Media Lab its as brilliantly clever as beautiful!
Inspired by the community it comprises, the logo is based on a visual system, an algorithm that generates a unique logo for each person, for faculty, staff and students. According to Richards there’s even a custom web interface to allow each person at the Media Lab to choose and claim an own individual logo for his/her business card, as well as a custom animation software which allows to create custom animations for any video content the lab produces… amazing:
… more here.
March 01 2011
Immaterials: Turning the invisible visible
Just got back to Düsseldorf after an amazing weekend in Berlin for the single purpose of attending Cognitive Cities, a first round conference to discuss the future of cities in Germany and in the world in general. There’s a lot of notes and ideas that I’d like to share and record here at my blog, but I’ll start with this one which is the best example of how there’s so much to uncover around us in the cities we live..
Light painting WiFi is a film by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen. The project explores the invisible terrain imprinted by WiFi networks along urban spaces, for this they built up a a four metre tall wifi measuring rod which enables them to light painting WIFI signal strength in long-exposure photographs:
more photos Immaterials: Light painting WiFi @ Flickr and a full description of how they managed to get this amazing visualisation up and running.
December 03 2010
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January 13 2010
How much of your page goes unnoticed?
You’ll find a lot of literature and best practices when searching for answers on what goes beneath the fold of your website, so Google came to the rescue and just released the Google Browser Size, a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google, which you can customize to see how does this measurements fit you own website, pretty much as I did for the above screenshot.
Thankfully I’m working on the redesign of my own website for a couple of days otherwise much of what goes in here would go unnoticed 
November 22 2009
Virtual Autopsy Table
It’s not pretty, and certainly not for the fainted hearted…
But I can’t be nothing but amazed at this visualization project.
Some years ago it was the ‘Visible Human Project‘ that both socked us, but also amazed us and help us see and learn a whole lot about the contents of our bodies, today I came across The Virtual Autopsy Table, an interactive installation, where users can freely interact with stunning volumetric 3D datasets acquired via start of the art medical imaging technics of real scanned human bodies. The result is simply amazing:
November 04 2009
Complexity of our times
Seeing this today at XKCD reminded me of Steve Johnson book ‘Everything Bad is Good for You‘ and how we’re coping with more and more intricate narratives, involving multiple characters and distinct timelines… and the reason why that implies a change in the way our brains have been changing and the resulting effects upon society as whole..
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Open Declaration on European Public Services
Endorse the Open Declaration!
Let’s improve European public services together.
On November 19th, the EU governments will meet in Malmo to sign a Ministerial Declaration that will define the key priorities for e-government strategy in Europe for the next years.
A group of Web 2.0 enthusiasts launched an open collaborative effort to build an Open Declaration on European Public Services, which calls on European governments to embrace the values of transparency, participation and empowerment and so improve public services. The European Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the EU have accepted that we present the declaration in the official program of the Ministerial Conference.
We now need to collect thousands of endorsements in order to convince governments to fully embrace these values.
If you share the values of the Open Declaration, please add your name in this form. Together we can make a difference!
If you agree, you may sign it and then join the Facebook Group to start spreading the word.
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