Waiting to read the best-seller: Book Demand Visualized

NB. How long is the wait for these New York Times best-sellers at the Omaha Public Library [compare: a. people waiting for Omaha library copy; b. number of copies; c. estimated wait if requested today]


http://www.artdiamondblog.com/images/WorldIsFlatLibraryWait.jpg

[Source of the graphic is page 1 of: MICHAEL O'CONNOR. "Library may help turn borrowers into buyers." Omaha World-Herald (Saturday, March 4, 2006): 1 & 2. ...]

See also on the same shelf:

• Add your name to the Popular Reading waiting list

  Have you been waiting to catch the latest best-seller on the popular reading shelf, but someone else seems to beat you to it every time? A new feature has been added to the online catalog, allowing you to request popular reading books. Previously, patrons had to ask Library staff to request these books for them.

  If the book you request is available on the shelf, Library staff will hold it in your name for one week at the Circulation Desk. If the book you request is currently checked out, your name will be placed on a waiting list, and the Library will e-mail you when the book is available for you.

Mapping the Unmappable: Visualization continues to advance

Quotable quote of the year: 16 years ago today the word "Internet" first appeared on af ront page or cover of the major media: Wall Street Journal, Page One, the story about eBooks -- 29 Oct, 2007. Thus said: Michael S. Hart, Founder Project Gutenberg

• Researchers Create Map of the Net By Anick Jesdanun, USA Today, Oct 2007 [info courtesy: Dr. John Jaeger, Dallas Baptist University]
• Mapping the Unmappable: Visual Representations of the Internet as Social Constructions by .Adam B. King SLIS-Strategic Leadership in Information Science Indiana University Center For Social Informatics Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi

See in same shelf and aisle:

• Visualizing the Innernet or Visual Display of the Website's Infostructure
• metaphors and misconceptions
• Putting up Internet borders Nov 05, 2007 04:30 AM Michael Geist Toronto Star

A looming legal crises on the Internet, MICHAEL RIGLER, The Western Star

Blog Copying Visualized

NB. Copying and reproducing with permission, is one--I try my best to follow this path. But, do so without any permission, is another and concerns many in the blogosphere--see links, below, many bloggers are discussing this issue. I am not sure if RSS feeds' or any other feeds allow you go on with this for ever (without you noticing, or being aware)?

I googled, and the result of this search was astonishing (because my Blog's content was simply being reproduced word-by-word @ www.visualizationblog.net) And, the author / owner is replaced by: Written by admin on October 5th, 2007:

Information Visualization: Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to ...
..akbani.blogspot.com/2007/08/thought-of-day-intelligent-metadata.html - 40k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to ... - 9:12pm
Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization … The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization ...www.visualizationblog.net/.../ - 18k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Much more...
The Human Mind: What Gives? (10.5.2007)
http://www.visualizationblog.net/2007/10/04/square-pie.../ (10.4.2007)
Visual Design as an Information Design tool (10.4.2007)
http://www.visualizationblog.net/2007/10/04/information-visualization.../ (10.4.2007)
Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math (10.4.2007)
Visual immersion using Web Analytics (10.4.2007)
Don’t Make Me Think! Just use the Microsoft Expression (10.4.2007)
Browse articles visually with WikiMindMap (10.4.2007)
IEEE InfoVis 2007 (10.2.2007)

See whois www.visualizationblog.net

And, a reverse IP (@ whois shows, the possibility of at least 134 Websites / bloggers getting equal treatment....): Reverse IP: 134 other sites hosted on this server.

See also: What is Plagiarism? Don't Know, Click here or read here: "Passing off someone's work as your own is known as plagiarism. Individuals who plagiarize material deliberately are committing an illegal act and it is unethical at best! It's ok to use pictures and paraphrase text but be sure to cite the source of your information. Thank you. (Info from http://www.personal.psu.edu/)"

Bloggers Concerns:

• Guide for Proper Use
  19 Oct 2007 by Ashok kumar My content is written only for my Websites and do not allow anyone to republish in any website or Blog. Copying means you are stealing not only articles and also my hard work. Eblog4every1 - http://eblog4every1.blogspot.com/


• Blog plagiarism — Steal this blog!
  28 Dec 2005 by Mathew Is wholesale blog-copying wrong? Obviously. Is Google making money from the AdSense ads that run on such sites? Yes. But I don’t think that means Google needs to police the problem, as Jeff Jarvis and some others believe. ...mathewingram.com/work - http://www.mathewingram.com/work


• Further thoughts on plagiarism
  19 Apr 2006 by Beth If I ran a blog copying the thoughts and writings of a hungarian writer, only translating it into english, probably no one, not in 10000 years, would ever realize the cheat. Screeeeeeeeem. The more you think about it, the deeper down ...Grand Mental Station - http://confessionalpoet.typepad.com/grand_mental_station/


• How to Approach Content Theft by Fellow Bloggers & MSM


• PLAGIARISM - SHOCKING !!!


• what this blogger says about penalties.... etc. on plagiarism
  http://myworksh0p.blogspot.com/2005/11/index.html


• Copying blog entries
  12 Oct 2005 by Nishi Read this entry about "copying blog entries without permission." via, Instapundit.Nishi's Blogosphere - http://photophunk.blogspot.com
• Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search
  by Alex Walker


• And Google it

Visualising Complexity & KM Communications Strategy: Mind maps

PS. The following info. is from Green Chameleon and Straits Knowledge Website.

• Visualising Complexity

For those interested in visualisation of complex information, or the visual power of mapping networks, here’s a wonderful resource unearthed by my iKMS colleague Kong Heng Sun.

• How to Plan a KM Communications Strategy

This concept map catalogues all the elements of a KM communications strategy that we’ve found useful, with some ideas for messages, media and audiences. Download the pdf version formatted for A3 size printing for easier reading!

Web Analytics and Qualitative Insight: Listen.See.Smell.Taste.Touch

PS. In the following is an attempt by an expert to demystify Web Analytics. While most often heard is why or the quantitative and that which tends to excite, herein is what or the qualitative insight--i.e., the other side of the coin.

"2 Simple Steps to Finding Your Website's Voice" @ GrokDotCom: byHolly Buchanan

Posted in Branding and Advertising Rants | Persuasive Online Copywriting | Articles | Persuasive Copywriting | Customer Experience | Copywriting | Relationship Building

"When you have a conversation with a human being (as opposed to having a conversation with a cat, which if you've ever owned one, you know how well that goes) you get a sense of that person's personality. The clothes they wear, their tone of voice, how they move, the words they use - all of this gives you insight into who the person is.

Every website visit is a conversation. Think about it. The web is an interactive medium. Every time you click you ask a question. You interact with the company or brand. What kind of answers are you getting? Do you get a sense of whom you are talking to? Do you have any sense of who the company/brand is?

I'm hearing a resounding answer of, "Not so much."

Your design, images, and copy all combine to convey your company or brand's personality. Of all of these, I would argue that copy is perhaps the most important element for conveying your website's personality or voice. As a copywriter, there are two things you must do:

1 - Have a clear understanding of your personality, brand or voice
2 - Convey that personality, brand or voice to your audience

Here are suggestions for how to accomplish this.

Step One: How to clarify your company's personality, brand or voice ...

Step Two: How to convey that voice in your copy ...

click here and continue reading

IEEE InfoVis 2007

October 28 - October 30, 2007

Join us Sunday, October 28, through Tuesday, October 30, 2007, in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization 2007 Conference and IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium in Sacramento, California.

The conference program is now set. Please click here for a schedule of conference events.

Keynote and Capstone speakers set. Two dynamic invited speakers, Matthew Ericson of the New York Times (IEEE InfoVis keynote) and Stephen Few of Perceptual Edge (combined IEEE InfoVis capstone/IEEE VAST capstone) will be presenting talks.

click here for more info

AT&Ts Case Studies in Information Visualization Research Problems

AT&T's Information Visualization: Case Studies:

The following application case studies illustrate how information visualization research solves real-world problems.

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Software Visualization for Vplus+ (VoIP/CallVantage prototype)

continue reading

See also AT&T's information visualization:

Main Research Areas

• Visual data mining
• Algorithms for graphics, computational geometry and optimization
• Graph (network) visualization
• Large-scale database visualization

Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia

"A new visualization Bruce Herr and I recently completed is being featured in this week’s New Scientist Magazine (the article is free online, minus the viz). They did a good job jazzing up the language used to describe the viz–’power struggle’, ‘bubbling mass’, ‘blitzed articles’–but they also dumbed down the technical accomplishments. I guess not everyone gets as excited about algorithms as I do. "

Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math

In many ways the Internet has many similarities to direct marketing. It requires consistency and persistence.

Can you make money selling a $1.00 for only 85 cents? NO! Yet, this is exactly what happens at many Ecommerce web sites. Why? A failure to:

control overhead costs;
understand the cost to acquire a customer.

continue reading: Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math

See also my previous posts:

Visual immersion using Web Analytics

Pay but don’t touch – Security, Satisfaction, and ...

Add Sense to your AdSense: Visualizing the Return on Investment?

Square Pie in the Eye @ Juice Analytics

"The New York Times—normally a source of clear and interesting infographics—produced the following graphic over the weekend."

Continue reading Square Pie in the Eye @ Juice Analytics

Visual immersion using Web Analytics

Practical analytics: persuasion scenarios
@ immeria - An immersion in Web Analytics,
by S.Hamel

A typical site is composed of several conversion objectives: registering to a newsletter, purchasing something, finding the nearest store, or any activity that represent a positive outcome for the user and the site owner. As Brian Eisenberg puts it, those represents the "conversion points" of a "persuasion scenario":

continue reading:

Practical analytics: persuasion scenarios

See also my previous posts:

Eye to I: Visual Literacy

Add Sense to your AdSense: Visualizing the Return on Investment?

Look and Feel of Browsers and Websites

Concept Mapping Technology - Tool to create HTML pathfinders?

Visualizing the Innernet or Visual Display of the Website's Infostructure - AHAREF

Don't Make Me Think! Just use the Microsoft Expression

The following is a product review. It is hoped that Microsoft Expression (ME) will be a better tool for information visualization:

The next generation of web development
Nikhil kumar, Deccan Herald » August 15, 2007
"Microsoft Expression Web is a professional design tool to create sophisticated standards-based Web sites that deliver compelling user experiences, says Mr. Tarun Gulati, General Manager - Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft India."

How better is MS Expression compared to MS Frontpage?
Microsoft Expression is a suite of tools for professional designers building web and Windows client applications and rich media content.

Expression Studio provides an end-to-end tools platform for teams of creative designers which boosts collaboration with developers in the delivery of next-generation user experiences for Windows, the Web and beyond.

The Expression studio suite include Expression Web, Blend , design and media, together all of which allows the developers and designers to deliver visually rich content for various type of media.

Microsoft Frontpage is discontinued and its functionality is split between two different products; Microsoft Expression Web & Microsoft Sharepoint Designer. Expression Web is targeted at professional Web designers who build broad reach HTML Web sites. Continue reading

Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization ...

The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization solves both ‘back-end’ information integration problems and ‘front-end’ Business Intelligence bottlenecks. continue reading

Visual Design as an Information Design tool

NB. Design, Visual perception and Web Sight all go here hand-in-hand

This is what an information architect @ Yahoo, Abhishek Kumar says, and I quote

Visual Design or Graphic Design as people might call it; has been mostly associated with the Experience and Look n Feel part of design. But Visual design is tremendously powerful tool when it comes to information design / information architecture. I personally feel the real power of this has not been truly utilized on the web. With usage of the age old “Gestalts Law” information can be presented in a very interesting manner. The kind of tools that Visual design uses are – Typography, Color, Placement, Layout, Texture/patterns, etc. continue reading

Browse articles visually with WikiMindMap

via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on Jul 09, 2007

Web site WikiMindMap turns complex Wikipedia articles into a visual representations of ideas (i.e., a mind map) to give you an overview of the important concepts and topics related to an idea.

Browsing a Wikipedia article with WikiMindMap may seem a bit confusing at first, especially if you don't regularly use mind maps, but it offers an interesting way to get a broad understanding of a topic and explore some of the related topics.




see also:

Mind map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Using Mind Maps to Reach Visual Thinkers

Mindmapping as a tool for assignments

Information Visualization @ Google News: Image Version

Google's News results : Standard Version    Text Version     and now its Image Version. Browse:

The Human Mind: What Gives?

"I've often been interested in how our minds process information. How can two people look at the same situation and see something totally different?

Many of the topics we discuss here at MMI are things that people feel they need to take sides on. And everyone has an opinion.

One of my favorite shows to watch sometimes is Hannity and Colmes. I find it so interesting that people can see everything so differently. Much of it has to do with out backgrounds, our up-bringing, etc.; but still... how do people come up with such different ideas?..." continue reading @ Monday Morning Insight Weblog

See also related posts:

Mind your Faith....! Aa..ha! [Thinking Inside The Blog!]

Pay but don’t touch – Security, Satisfaction, and Expectation

Arby’s rolls out ‘contactless’ payment cards
By: Robert L. Mitchell
Computerworld (US) (08 Jun 2007)

Are Contactless Payment Cards Tickets to Wholesale Fraud?
By Jeff Chasney, CIO, CKE Restaurants, August 18, 2005

US heading towards cashless society - 01 May 2007 - Computing.co.uk

Key Changes Facing the Smart Cards Industry - the Contactless Payment Technology Opportunities, May 31, 2007, Business Wire

RFID Cards for New York Subway Tolls,
Filed in archive Contactless Payment Systems by Anita Campbell on March 21, 2006

Contactless Credit Cards: Privacy Holes? October 24, 2006 [Radio Frequency Identification news] RFID Gazette: Applications

'smart' city....what about citizens?

Eye to I: Visual Literacy

ACRL Arts Section / Instruction Section, 2007 Conference Program, ALA, Washington, D.C.
Welcome to the home of the virtual poster sessions that are being offered in conjunction with the ACRL Instruction Section/Arts Section program at ALA 2007 in Washington D.C. entitled Eye to I: Visual Literacy Meets Information Literacy. The poster sessions will be available through this site through December, 2007. Please use the links at the right to view the poster sessions that illustrate practical applications of the intersection of visual literacy and information literacy. We hope you will also plan to attend the program at ALA in June! continue reading

contact:Meghan Sitar
Instruction and Outreach Librarian
Library Instruction Services
University of Texas Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin

Microsoft Brings Computing to Tabletops

By Barry Levine
May 30, 2007 9:03AM

Microsoft's latest tech, called Microsoft Surface, can identify physical objects in addition to finger movements; for example, when a diner sets down a wine glass, Surface can automatically offer additional wine choices tailored to the dinner being eaten. "We see this as a multibillion-dollar category," said Microsoft's Steve Ballmer. continue reading

Silence Please: Mr. Bean, The Library

PS. The producers want to make clear that no real librarians were hurt in the filming of this skit [source: Law Librarian Blog] -- TV Series: "Mr. Bean" (1990).


[PS. Above info courtesy: David P. Dillard]
See also from my blogs:

Funny you should ask: Humor at the Reference Desk

Unusual Reference Questions - Globalism Visited

Seneca Library Holiday Song

The Technique of Song and Sound Visualization: Blogga Song of Librarians

Researchers Turn Web Blather to Books

A Blather defined:
"Blather is a user-contributed content website owned by and hosted on the new dream network (DreamHost). Words link to pages about other words, the difference being that nearly every word is a hyperlink. It serves many functions to its users, poetry and prose workshop, sharing ideas, political debates, or simply a message board. Blather has no implied or explicit purpose. Wiki"

By JENNIFER C. YATES, Associated Press Writer, May 24, 2007

A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online. Continue reading

Info courtesy: ALLEN Reynolds

All your favourites in One Page !!! . Too good to visualize and browse

Bottom Line: All My Faves Why Search?


A better clip can be viewed at Clipmark's Website

Web Analyst Interview: Apurba Sen

Looking for information professionals @ linkedin who can connect information visualization and Web analysis, I found an interesting resource person. This person is Apurba Sen, and he was interviewed in the area of Web Analysis or Web Analytics, by Anil Batra. Read the interview: Web Analyst Interview: Apurba Sen

Using Mind Maps to Reach Visual Thinkers

Posted by gail mcgovern on December 18, 2005 @ clioinstitute blog
Not only does the article, Seven Steps for Effective Problem Solving in the Workplace, present a clear and concise approach to problem solving, it also includes a link to a companion mind map that makes its concepts more appealing to visual thinkers.

Think about how you could use this type of technique to engage visual thinkers on your library's website.

Related posts from my blog:

Mindmapping as a tool for assignments

FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization

Concept Mapping Technology - Tool to create HTML pathfinders?

Add Sense to your AdSense: Visualizing the Return on Investment?

This post is regularly updated. Last update May 5, 2007

Thought for the day on Return on Investment (ROI):

If only things could talk, they could tell us who made them and where they'd been. If they were lost, they could shout, "Here I am!" If they were damaged, mistreated, neglected or expired, they could tell us that, too. They could tell us how to use them, repair them and dispose of them safely. Are you reading me? KEN HUNT, Globe and Mail, 11/04/07

Visualization is creating a mental picture of something in your mind's eye. Visualization techniques are important because they help make the future become more clear. Seeing yourself already achieving your goals makes your brain believe that attaining that goal is possible. Focusing consistently on any given goal will enable you to manifest it far sooner than if you do not focus on it at all; focusing brings the goal closer to you. Tips For Mastering Visualization Techniques, By Scott White Published 03/22/2007

See also:

google adsense sparklines,

Jenett, Marilyn. "Are You Visualizing "Out There" Or From Within?." EzineArticles 10 November 2004. 15 April 2007

Inserting adsense code in Postnuke article by nmjudy

Adsense And The Surfer, Ryan Smith Published 03/22/2007

Sense and Nonsense About Adsense, By Alex Newell Published 03/22/2007

Google AdWords plus Google Analytics: Market Manipulation and Possibility of Mischief? by Avinash Kaushik

Google and Behavioral Targeting Part III – Google Buys Doubleclick, Anil Batra

Pattern for Reading Web Content

Vijay Prabhakar (@ CSE494/598 Spring 2007 Blog) says:

Here's an interesting article on the Pattern for reading Web content, which tracks the movement of eye while viewing Web content.
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, April 17, 2006:

Summary:
Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.

See also from my previous post:

FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization

Look and Feel of Browsers and Websites

A visual Newsmap

Visual Search Plus

Concept Mapping Technology - Tool to create HTML pathfinders?

Mindmapping as a tool for assignments

Bryan is a senior manager who recently qualified as an MBA. During the course, he was given a very tough assignment - to analyze the business opportunities and related ethical considerations arising from cancer in society

See also:

Using Mind Mapping to plan an Assignment

Tool Helps Map Out Complex Subjects

Google for more and much more

PS. Thanks to Roy Grubb for the mapping info., and about ways that add fun to the learning process.

Technorati Tags

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Powerpoint bad for brains - Menace of slideware

7th April is the World Health Day. And, comes a health related alert--affecting business and their use of PowerPoint, in relation to human capability to visualize, store and retrieve information.

By John Oates → 4th April 2007, Register, UK
"Anyone who's been a victim of "death by Powerpoint" - that glazed and distant feeling that overwhelms you when some sales droid starts their presentation - will be reassured by Aussie researchers who've discovered biological reasons for the feeling.

Humans just don't like absorbing information verbally and visually at the same time -one or the other is fine but not both simultaneously." ...

"It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. But it is not effective to speak the same words that are written, because it is putting too much load on the mind & decreases your ability to understand what is being presented." ....

There's more from the Sydney Morning Herald here, or there's an abstract of Sweller's work (pdf) here.
Professor John Sweller is not the first to question the overarching power of Powerpoint. Edward Tufte is a professor emeritus at Yale and an information and interface design expert. His 2003 book The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within makes similar claims.® continue reading

FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization

Facetmaps (or Facet maps) are an interesting visualization through the world of facets or categories for information storage & retrieval.

"facetmap search visualization an interactive, query-driven data visualization technique for searching & browsing large, textual datasets, such as search results. the driving principle behind FacetMap is to show any size dataset in the most useful way, given the screen space constraints, the number of items, & the attributes (e.g. by time, by type, by author, etc.), of those items. for instance, when the dataset is too large to display all items within each facet at a useful size, FacetMap collapses individual items into oval bubbles representing groups of items that share common attribute values." continue reading @ information aesthetics

See a detailed study:

FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization, Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, George Robertson, Desney S. Tan [pdf] [html]

See my related posts:

Look and Feel of Browsers and Websites

A visual Newsmap

Visual Search Plus

Concept Mapping Technology - Tool to create HTML pathfinders?

Blogs and visual innovation

Thanks to the initiative Efios blog, for this creative visualization, this helps both personal and corporate bloggers increase their visibility. And a quote:
"Images can be used to elicit creative ideas from a group by tapping into the source of innovation, ideas that tend to be more holistic than linear, more intuitive than rational. Creativity is enhanced when people interact with images. Seeing is personal and draws on unconscious elements. When looking at the same image, everyone has a somewhat different interpretation of what they are seeing, based on past experiences..." continue reading

Google for more.
Previous posts from my blogs:

Look and Feel of Browsers and Websites

Visual Search Plus

Add a little more random to your product

Look and Feel of Browsers and Websites

Browsers, Web sites' (including content, design and visualization) have sites, sights and insights, courtesy: It is a numeric life Blog

Well designed web pages
An recent experiment demonstrated that tighter writing, more white space, and jettisoning unnecessary imagery helps readers read 50% faster and retain 34% more of what they've read. That explains why most people love Google's home page. Continue reading more: Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design, By Laura Ruel and Nora Paul

My previous related posts:

A visual Newsmap

Visual Search Plus

Visualizing the Web Infostructure I - Cites, Insights, Farsights

Concept Mapping Technology - Tool to create HTML pathfinders?

P.S. Thanks to Natalie for this lead. If any one has tried this, please let me know.


Concept Mapping Technology - Tool to create HTML pathfinders?
One of the assignments for my Knowledge Management class was a knowledge map. A knowledge map is a tangible representation or catalog of the concepts and relationships of knowledge. A knowledge map is a navigational aid that enables the user to find the desired concept and then retrieve relevant knowledge sources. Read more from Natalie's experiences

See also

Concept Mapping Tool @ Goolge

Google for more on "Concept Mapping Technology"

Google for: "Concept Mapping Technology" "knowledge management"

Visualizing Knowledge @ Google

Concept Map pathfinder @ Google

My previous posts:

Visual Search Plus

A Visible Pathfinder for Increasing Blog Traffic in 2007

Job Pathfinder - Join the race

SCAM FREE PATHFINDER in Librarians as Knowledge Managers

Add a little more random to your product

"You know the feeling: You follow a near-random trail of blog links and land on the post that solves your big business problem. You randomly flip through a physics book and find next week's sermon. You're shopping for discount dog food when you find your dream date. It's the powerful charm of the iPod Shuffle ("How did it KNOW that's just the song I needed to hear right now..."). It's serendipity. And maybe we should build more opportunities for it into our products, services, and lives...." Read full article: Add a little more random to your product Kathy Sierra

See also: Analytics on the Cheap: Six Free Stats Packages for the Startup or Small-Business Owner

Sight, Sound, Senses Visualized - Creative Innovations in Touch and Tell Spheres

[NB. Rest in the Waiting: smell, taste, touch]

Web site helps name that tune in your head [Sify.com]
Singapore: You know that annoying tune that you can't place or get out of your head? A US company has recently launched a Web site, www.midomi.com, that names most tunes that you can hum, sing or whistle a tune into your computer microphone. [Image source and more details: Website Lets Users Search For Unknown Tunes That Get Stuck In Their Head, Thursday February 1, 2007]

Librarians will see Margaret Atwood's Long Pen for the first time at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference's THE 2007 EXPOSITION, Feb 1 -2, 2007

Margaret Atwood's telepresence book-signing robot Clive Thompson, March 01, 2006
Wow: Margaret Atwood has become the first author to sign books in remote locations -- via a telepresence robot!



Last fall, she hooked up with a Toronto company called Unotchit (which sounds roughly like "you no touch it") that developed a device that works like this: Unotchit sets up its robot in a remote bookstore. Atwood logs in from home, and using a webcam, talks to people who are attending the far-off book-signing. She chats with 'em, asks what they want inscribed on their book, and they lay it in front of the Unotchit robot. Atwood writes on a screen, and the robot replicates her pen-strokes precisely, in real-time, on the book.

Previous posts in the same row and isle:

Guided Imagery / Visualization - Uses with the Cancer Patron

Infomedia Revolution Revisited

Visual Communication Vistas Revisited

Scientists and Artists: Who should design learning?

The Technique of Song and Sound Visualization

2007 Weblog Awards - Blog Of The Day Awards - Information Visualization

Top Blog Awards - Information Visualization

Blog of the Day Awards for Sunday January 21, 2007

Information Visualization at Seth's blog

I noticed two posts that add value to this blog

Turning your idea into a picture

David at Boingboing points us to: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.
I love the spectacular use of technology on this web page. I hate the twisted use of the periodic table (because the relationships between the types isn't natural or elegant the way chemicals are) but it's worth it, because it will certainly inspire you to figure out how to get out of your text rut.

Two kinds of people in the world...

NB. As a bonus to this visualization (not from Seth's Blog), see also: Writing Style, By Gender posted at Jerry’s Blog–Because Wit Happens

Here’s an interesting site where you can paste in some text and, based on a mathematical algorithm (there’s a link to the scientific paper), the text is analyzed and can generally make a pretty accurate determination as to whether the text was written by a man or a woman. (Be sure and scroll down after you’ve tried this to see which words you’ve used are considered “male” and “female”).

Technorati tags: Sethgodin

[image courtesy: Idle Advice]

Graphic novels being challenged by parents

Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 12/21/06
BY DAVID TWIDDY
THE CIATED PRESS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Amy Crump took over as director of the Marshall Public Library in central Missouri two years ago, she decided to build up the library's offerings for young adults by buying the literary world's hot new thing …graphic novels.

"The bulk of our graphic novels are for young adults and they're very popular,'' Crump said, estimating the library's collection has gone from only a handful to around 75.

Among the new acquisitions was "Blankets'' by Craig Thompson and "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic'' by Alison Bechdel, two semi-autobiographical accounts of the respective authors' turbulent childhoods that include ruminations on strict
religious upbringing and homosexuality.

The two novels touched off what Crump said was the first challenge of library materials in Marshall's 16-year history, as parents complained that the books, which include pictures of a naked couple, could be read by children, attracted by the comic book-like drawings. Continue reading the full story

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