Monthly Archives: December 2009

How Many Books Do You Read Each Year? – GOOD Blog – GOOD I'm not sure how many books I've read this year but off the top of my head I think I could probably count them on my fingers. I've been talking to lots of people about books this year, both fiction and non-fiction. [...]

Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab (tags: social design stanford persuasion persuasive hci credibility computers technology research captology) Captology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Generally been thinking more and more about Captology recently; I guess it’s probably because the year is coming to end and this year has seen everybody talk about influence. I’m proactively in search [...]

Eko lights: an invention to end road rage? | Technology | The Guardian Excellent example of information design in practical use. The rev-counter style progress bar, circling around the active signal, really gives drivers a familiar signal indicating waiting times. What i like about this work is how dormant information: times between signal changes, has [...]

http://www.nielsen-online.com/emc/0901_forrester/The%20Forrester%20Wave%20Listening%20Platforms%20Q1.pdf (tags: social media monitoring forrester reports socialmediamonitoring nielsen data)

Map of Wikipedia article-density by nation Boing Boing Nice visualization of how wikipedia entries are edited by country. (tags: visualization data images) Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried Well content and link farms in particular are not new; over the last year I've had phone calls from numerous companies offering me [...]