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Jack Kerouac’s diagram of “The Ten-Year Spiritual (or Psychological?) Circle of ‘An American Passed Here,’” from the manuscript of the novel that would become The Town and the City , 1945.
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At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them. Sansumbrella | “Drawing Water is a constructed landscape shaped by the relationship between where water falls and where it is consumed within the United States” | Visualisation Flowing Data | Profiling the ‘Spotlight on movie profitability’ visualisation submission to the Information is Beautiful Awards | Visualisation
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Electric City Printing Installs an HP4600 Friday, April 06, 2012 Press release from the issuing company Electric City Printing, a Consolidated Graphics, Inc. company based in Williamston, SC, recently installed an HP4600 digital press in order to facilitate a growing demand for the company’s printed race number capabilities. The new HP4600 will supplement output from the printer’s existing HP4050, which serves a similar function. Electric City is the world’s largest printer for competition media, providing entry packets, racing numbers, brochures, signage, and integrated technology to…
Open Knowledge Foundation is an important promoter of open knowledge, data and content. I think it's time to show some appreciation by highlighting some of their initiatives. Read more Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books. Read more Another big event in 2012 has just been announced: Resonate New Media Festival combines talks, workshops, panel discussions by concerts, DJ sets and performances with some of the leading digital artists.
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This is the fourth article in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into the field of visualisation from the different perspectives of those in the roles of designer, practitioner, academic, blogger, journalist and all sorts of other visual thinkers. My aim is to bring together these interviews to create a greater understanding and appreciation of the challenges, approaches and solutions emerging from these people – the visualisation world’s cast and crew .
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Just about every book I’ve read over the past few years I’ve read in electronic form, either on my iPhone or on my iPad. But for a recent weekend getaway, I bought a paperback copy of George R.R.
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Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia
As Doc Searls recently put it, Wikipedia is, like the protocols of the Net, "a set of agreements". A Web protocol defines the way in which computers communicate with each other and make decisions to ensure successful transactions. Wikipedia policies have the same purpose, but instead of transactions between machines, they regulate human decisions.MAPS