From the ResourceShelf : Video: LC’s Deanna Marcum Speaks About the Impact of Collaboration For Libraries February 1, 2011 22:28 Deanna Marcum, the Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress and ITHAKA Trustee, spoke at the ITHAKA…
The British Library (BL) will be running a series of focus groups to gain a better understanding of how BL services meet the needs of Arts & Humanities researchers within the HE community on 15th and 17th February 2011. See the d…
We are pleased to invite you to the “Digital Transformations: New developments in cultural heritage imaging”, a workshop on digital imaging to be held at the University of Oxford on Friday, 25 February 2011. The details are as fo…
A position as Learning Technologies Officer is now available to work on a new Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Reading’s Institute of Education & School of Systems Engineering and the World Association of …
Even Bill Gates has an infographics section. In his 2011 annual letter, Gates focuses on Polio and vaccines, and uses graphics to highlight spots. Most of them have to do with the decrease in number of Polio cases and increase in vaccine coverage, but there’s one graph that I gave a double take. It shows [...]
In regards to a performance chart posted by Netflix, Andy Baio, who along with around 7 percent of men, is colorblind, explains why it’s so hard to read the chart. “When doing the right thing is this easy, it’s really disturbing when it’s dismissed as a waste of time.” [Waxy] Flow Chart Shows You What [...]
Every NBA Slam Dunk Contest Video Visualization [hoopism.com] breaks down every NBA slam dunk contest (1984 to 2010) by dunk, year, and score. In particular, the interface provides immediate access to the video footage of any dunk without having to se…
Almost exactly 25 years ago, on January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated seconds after lift-off. One of Edward Tufte’s most famous examples of bad charts are the ones used by engineers who argued against the launch, and who failed to …
[infosthetics@strataconf 2011 by guest blogger Collin Sullivan]
Greetings from sunny Santa Clara and the O’Reilly 2011 Strata Conference! I have been prepping for what are sure to be enlightening and challenging presentations here, and am looking for…
[infosthetics@strataconf 2011 by guest blogger Collin Sullivan] Greetings from sunny Santa Clara and the O’Reilly 2011 Strata Conference! I have been prepping for what are sure to be enlightening and challenging presentations here, and am looking for…
Mozilla Labs announced it will no longer maintain the Prism project. Attention instead will focus on the more general Chromeless project, which also is a ”task-focused layer” running on top of Mozilla’s XULRunner runtime environment. In a blog entitled “Prism is now Chromeless,” Lloyd Hilaiel wrote: “The final change we’re announcing today takes the form Read the rest…
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The second annual Digital Media and Learning conference “Designing Learning Futures” will be held between March 3-5, 2011 at the Hilto
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Long gone are the days when Clapham was a small, rustic village well beyond the gates of medieval London. Also gone, but less long, is the era of Clapham as a fancy suburb fashionable with the upper classes, whose rows of mansions skirted the win…
[Heather Bowlby is a NINES Fellow for the 2010-2011 year and a Ph. D. Candidate in English at the University of Virginia.] Like most new e-book users, I had to learn to use my Kindle when I received it. The reading experience as mediated through electronic devices is certainly different than that provided by traditional [...]
