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The Anatomy of a Viral Tweet

Here’s the crib of my 140#conf NYC talk, given on June 15th at the 92nd st Y:

I’m here to talk to you about my work on digital audiences, with a focus on information flows. I’m sure that to this crowd I don’t have to stress the potential that social media is unlocking. Whether you’re a [...]

Seeing your Invisible Audience

::Making Sense of the Ebbs and Flow of Social Data

Below are notes + slides of my presentation at the BRANDSconf. I’d like to acknowledge Hunter Whitney. Portions of this content were based on a discussion and an upcoming article he is writing on this topic (link coming shortly):

I’m extremely passionate about data analysis and design. [...]

Aerogel Installation at TEDActive

I was fortunate to be invited this year as one of the contributing artists at TEDActive. This is the simulcast event that happens in Palm Springs at the same time that the main TED event takes place in Long Beach. The organizers frame it not as “TED jr.” but rather a more intimate version of [...]

Seeing a Twitter #Hashtag Spread

#CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike is a hashtag created by @mattsly the morning of October 26th. He submitted the following snarky message – ‘Go Phillies. #CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike hoping investment bankers get really huge bonuses of at least 8 figures‘ – hoping to entertain his friends, and possibly get others to participate. Matt had 182 followers at the time, not sizeable [...]

Twitter Visualization: MTV VMA Tweet Tracker

New Twitter visualization of the MTV video music awards by Stamen design. I enjoy using the well-designed interface for “re-experiencing” the series of events as they evolved that evening. I like the simplicity of the timeline at the bottom, and just how easy it is to navigate between times. What I also really like is [...]

Flickr Clock

There’s something really wonderful about using the flickr clock interface to browse through people’s moments from around the world. The clock displays only video content and lets you lean back and just click <next> to view another short clip which someone uploaded somewhere around the world.

flickr clock

I love the horizontal timeline below the image [...]

Making round DIVs

Here’s the image-based method I used to make rounded DIVs. Use the following HTML code along with the CSS properties and .gif files. The results are a lot of fun and look quite good:

[tags]html,code,programming,round,div,css[/tags]

Solid Smoke – my interactive installation in the Swiss Technorama museum

Solid Smoke is an interactive installation I’ve built in collaboration with the Pasadena based artist, Dan Goods, of directedplay. The installation has been recently installed in the the Swiss Technorama science museum.

The installation triggers colored patterns projected onto aerogel, a unique low-density material in which the liquid component of the gel has [...]

Ma’ariv Site Redesign

Ma’ariv, one of Israel’s most popular newspapers (both print + web), has gone through a comprehensive site re-design. Its about time they changed their horrid color palette (reds and yellows), to a much cleaner set (grays) with a well structured UI, which actually feels somewhat like nytimes.com.

[tags]hebrew,news,web,design,nrg,maariv [/tags]

Visual Delights for Browsing

Whoa. In the past couple of days I’ve discovered fresh web-based visual effects that give a lot of joy:
1) I am a big supporter of Gmail labels and filters. Since it is my main email box, I use it to subscribe group lists, bills, google alerts as well as receiving personal emails. Labels and filters [...]