Invisible Urban Social Networks Made Visible

29 July 2010
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Our virtual social networks are bits of data flying through cyberspace. We see them via our apps and Web interfaces. But what would they look like if you geo-tagged them and visualized the connections over a virtual map? Christian Marc Schmidt and Liangjie Xia examined these connections within the urban space of the greater New [...]

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The History of Nikola Tesla – an Animated Short Story

18 July 2010
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Nikola Tesla created white lighting and Alternating Current (AC), feuded with Thomas Edison, and contributed greatly to the development of wireless communications. Without AC, we’d have power stations every two miles, and I wonder if the Internet would have been able to develop the way that it has! Thanks to Tesla, we have the electrical [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Arctic Mountain Adventure

9 July 2010

Team Digital Preservation released the 4th animation in their hilarious series on digital preservation this week.
In this episode, the topic is preservation planning, one of my areas.

Digiman is baby sitting his niece and nephew for the weekend, but things go horribly wrong when he sends them out on an arctic mountain adventure. Never fear trusty [...]

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The Project Management Tree Swing Cartoon, Past and Present

8 July 2010
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The project management tree swing cartoon below is famous amongst those of us who have engaged in any kind of software project management. I first came across it in the late 1990s, when I managed small projects at a regional data communications company. I remember printing it out and hanging it in my cubicle, [...]

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Facebook: By the Numbers

5 July 2010
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The numbers behind the Facebook phenomenon are staggering. Users spend 500 million minutes per month on the site. Seventy different languages are used on Facebook. As of December 2000, there were an estimated 361 million users on the Internet; as of 2010, Facebook alone has 400 million users. As of this writing, the Facebook user [...]

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Is the Internet Remaking Us? Part II

29 June 2010
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Does the Internet make us smarter or dumber?
@smalljones dug up the following news articles in response to a discussion on this topic that will be held in our department this Friday afternoon. It is pure coincidence that the topic of the discussion is whether or not the Internet is remaking us — a topic [...]

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Is the Internet Remaking Us?

29 June 2010
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“We wonder, as the sum of all our knowledge and memories is uploaded, converted into bits, tagged and indexed, are we sacrificing what makes us human? Or evolving what it means to be human?” Jordan Clarke asks in his animation below, entitled Internet. The tagline for the animation is that it is “a visual metaphor [...]

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Data Envisioned as Flowing through a Cityscape

28 June 2010
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Or, should I say, a cityscape envisioned as data?
The animation below is called Data; it was created by Carine Bigot (@c4rin3). It shows data flowing through the streets of a city, with an accompanying futuristic soundtrack. As you watch the animation you will see the data flow from above and around the “buildings”, as [...]

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Visualization of the Metadata Universe

22 June 2010
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Jenn Riley, who is currently the Metadata Librarian with the Indiana University Digital Library Program, sent out a post to the DC-General mailing list yesterday, announcing the release of the wonderful visualization of the metadata universe. I will let her words speak for her; I have included the text of her email below. This resource [...]

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The Humanities Take on Data Mining via Google Books

22 June 2010
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The Humanities are “Going Google”, according to Marc Parry of The Chronicle, in a piece he wrote a few weeks ago.
The gist of the article is that some Humanities scholars are very interested in data mining the texts scanned in for the Google Books Project.
Why do they want to use Big Data mining techniques [...]

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