I had the opportunity to participate in a discussion on CartoTalk today about the way in which information (and, more specifically, geography and maps) can be skewed and distorted to fit one’s own world view. If we, as designers, tend to be _______-centric, the images we will create can often-times reflect those views and [...]
For those of you who know me well, you know that when I am not working to market and design maps or putting on my Superman t-shirt and “saving the internet” with our GraphicsOptimization venture (Ha!), you’ll probably find me out on a disc golf course somewhere in Southern Minnesota. A passion for a [...]
My map design firm (mapformation) has recently become more and more friendly with a company based in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) named CellMap. CellMap is a mobile map distribution service that gives individuals the ability to download and use maps right on their cell phones. It is the perfect compliment to our firm’s existing ability [...]
One of the web hosting services I have had a great deal of success with over the past few years has been ipowerweb. Their service utilizes two data centers in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), over 800 servers and half a Petabyte of storage.
ipowerweb has been good to me, but I have often wondered if more could [...]
I came across a new and very interesting service today on the ‘net called Snoop. Snoop essentially is a new service in beta which “streams website and blog events to you live, in real-time.” Looks very interesting…and something a person such as myself (who is practically religious about monitoring the traffic on my various web [...]
A member of the [uwebd] listserv posted a great link this afternoon to a new eyetracking study, published by The Poynter Institute, entitled Eyetracking the News. Poynter also has a Flash-based web site they have built that is devoted to the study: http://eyetrack.poynter.org/.
I personally don’t care for Flash-based web sites from the standpoint [...]
I recently was watching network television (something I am finding less and less time to do these days), and I noticed that NBC was running promotional spots for a web site entitled www.greenisuniversal.com. Being one of the biggest “tree-huggers” I know, I thought I would visit that web site and take a look at what [...]
In continuing with my exploration of .png imagery embedded as a part of software applications this week, I decided to look under the hood of Adobe’s (it’s STILL strange for me to not say “Macromedia”) Dreamweaver 8 application on my PC laptop. A total of 261 .png files come along with that software program, all [...]
Last night, I actually found myself in the highly-unfamiliar position of being caught-up in my work! I think I was in my 20s the last time that happened (I’m 36)! I thought that would be an excellent opportunity to start to experiment more with image optimization as it related to the software on [...]
One of the tremendous opportunities which exists related to image optimization which many people do not often think about relates to 360-degree panoramic photography. This type of imagery, such as IPIX imagery, has a “cool factor” that is hard to rival with static, traditional photographs related to wayfinding and virtual reality. However, I always try [...]
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