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Imaging Beijing

Posted on April 11th by Shae Davidson.
John Craig Freeman's Imaging Beijing, part of the 2008 Mixed Realities exhibition at Turbulence.org, uses remote sensing technology and place-based narratives to examine the effects of electronic ...
Placeopedia

Wikipedia Walkabout

Posted on February 22nd by Shae Davidson.
Two websites give Wikipedia users a more immediate, spatial connection to data.  Placeopedia allows visitors to connect articles to locales, creating searchable maps linked to the original texts.  ...
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/apartment/image4.html

Architectural Parsing

Posted on December 3rd by Shae Davidson.
Cicero developed orations by assigning key themes and concepts to rooms in an imaginary villa, which he mentally navigated during recitations.  Centuries later, medieval scholars and university students expanded on the ...
How far can I go?

Visualizing Travel: How far can I go?

Posted on July 6th by Forrest Diamond.
How far can I go? is a travel site from Air New Zealand that offers travelers a unique perspective on their travel arrangements. Instead of finding flights based on ...

The Recycled Canvas Theme is now available! (v0.9)

Posted on March 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
If you are interested in becoming an experimenter, just download the theme+plugin and go ahead and get in touch with us. We'll give you access to our code repository and ...

CHI - Design of Spatial Applications nearly Full

Posted on March 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
If you are attending or thinking of attending CHI 2007 this year, my course offering "The Design of Spatial Applications" is almost full. If you think you are ...
Sugar

Sugar and spice for the $100 laptop

Posted on March 1st by Matthew Hockenberry.
I was reading this article from Business Week (.com) about the face of the $100 laptop. I've been spending a lot of face time with the laptop lately, as ...
Graphs around the web

[graph-watch] New Intersections

Posted on February 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Some nice graphs seen around the interweb lately. 1) The loveocracy, from creating passionate users showing what's good for users is what's good for business. 2) ...