I'm currently a product innovation manager with experience in product management, user-centered design, usability engineering, brand management and visual design.
Note: This is a personal blog containing personal opinions about research, innovations and experiences that I find interesting and informative. It is not associated with my employer in any way, shape or form.
The strength, consistency and reach of the network says something about the built environment where it is set up, as well as reflecting the size and status of the host. Small, domestic networks in old apartment buildings flow into the streets in different ways than the networks of large institutions. Dense residential areas have more, but shorter range networks than parks and campuses.
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The BBC has launched an interactive visualization site called BBC Dimensions. It provides overlays of historical and scientific information onto a postal code.Careful with that link as it'll cost you at least 10 minutes of your life.
Anyway, the BBC Dimension site got me thinking about another large number we hear a lot about these days: the U.S. budget deficit. Right now, it's hovering around $12 trillion dollars. When we hear that figure we typically hear things like,"If that were a stack of $1 bills it would stretch all the way to Alpha Centauri" or whatever. But that's still abstract because I can't picture how far Alpha Centauri is.
So I thought, I wish someone would put that into perspective with small units, something I can relate to. Then I figured I'd just try.
So here goes:
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Via radical cartography (and kottke) comes this view of the world's population by latitude and longitude. Nothing surprising here, but this is another good use of overlays to clarify data.
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I'm a sucker for these vision videos. With the temperatures slowly rising and summer just around the corner, this video, which shows a vision of the future of emergency response management seems timely at least for the West coast. As with all vision statements, this one's probably more in the future than in reality and it's got a lot of extra fluff in there that probably won't make the cut in the target state, but it's still interesting to watch.
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Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance — not to a simple-minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing off en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole. The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations.
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