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People address me with "Sir" (instead of "mate"), cars are bigger than my living room, and there is a high density of males with pony tails and beards. I must be in the US, and at the SIGGRAPH conference. While the last 2 days were quite interesting and inspirational (hopefully more about that soon), the main question of today was whether the keynote talk from Steve Duenes , Graphics Director at the New York Times , would fulfill the high expectations from the information aesthetics crowd present here. He heads a team of about 30 people, for the print media as well as all the interactive work. First impression: Steve is the only person in the huge ballroom, actually probably in the whole Convention Center, who seems to be wearing a suit.
SIGGRAPH'09: Steve Duenes (NYTimes Graphics Director) Keynote Talk - information aesthetics
Can Data Revitalize Journalism ? | Monday Note
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Using Google Maps Image Viewer to Post Large Images without Resizing at EdTechPost
Apparently within the geography community (and I expect some other places) this trick is well known, but it was new to me and so thought it worth sharing. Using the free Google Maps Image Cutter developed at University College London you can cut up very large images into ’tiles’ and then use the standard Google maps viewer interface to pan and zoom on it. The default is for the picture to wrap, but if you look at the source of the HTML page, change one value prevents this, as can be seen in the example I tested it on here . Many of the pages I readpointed out that a service like Zoomify already does this. True enough, but a) other than for the most basic package, that is a paid for service b)Zoomify is a Flash-based approach, sometimes that’s not what you want c) this seems to me to give me more control, and can you ever have enough options on how to do things like this?