23 August 2005

Most popular 250 tags, the bigger the text, the more active it is. : http://www.technorati.com/tags/

It makes compelling intuitive sense to apply spatial conventions to Internet navigation: after all, we understand how to navigating in the real-world so it should be a simple matter to transfer these competencies to online environments... http://www.a-website.org/mnemosyne/sitemap.htmlhttp://www.gvisit.com/record.php?sid=0e8020a1947a3458bd59e95858b727e7" type="text/javascript">put in HTML to generate http://www.gvisit.com/map.php?sid=0e8020a1947a3458bd59e95858b727e7

"But what ... is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music'; self.ql_skeyphrase='guitar%20music'; if(window.event) self.ql_sevent=window.event.srcElement; self.ql_timeout = setTimeout('ql_doMouseOver(1)', 1000); self.ql_isOverLink=true; return true;" style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 3px double; TEXT-DECORATION: none" onclick="if(self.ql_timeout) clearTimeout(self.ql_timeout); self.ql_isOverTip = false; ql_closeiframe(); self.ql_skeyphrase='guitar%20music'; window.status='Search for: guitar music';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; if(self.ql_timeout) clearTimeout(self.ql_timeout); self.ql_isOverTip = false; setTimeout('ql_closeiframe()', 1500); " href="http://www.qklinkserver.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=92&k=guitar%20music&st=1">guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes." - Buckminster Fuller
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein
"Instead o pouring knowledge into people's heads, we need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so that we can see the world in a new way." - J S Brown
"You see things: you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never are: and say 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw in Bak to Methuselah
"All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking." - C H Oakhurst
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." - Albert Szent Gyorgi
"Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it." - Raymond Kurzweil
"Half the failures in life arise from pulling on one's horse as it is leaping." - Julius Hare, 1795 - 1855
"There is no limit to what a man can achieve as long as he doesn't care who get's the credit" -- Bob Woodruff. Coca Cola
"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." - Doris Lessing
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up." - Oliver Wendell Holmes (All above from http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/quotes.php )

22 August 2005

GSV 1.0 (Giant-Ass Image Viewer) http://mike.teczno.com/giant/pan/ reproduces the same functionality as Google Maps, that is, draggable and zoomable images in your browser. It is a javascript on the client side and a python script on the server side which calculates which tiles are needed, cut them on the fly, and send them back to the client.
http://www.zoomify.com/ez/ uses a Flash approach.

GreatIdeas Map http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/TheGreatIdeas.htm must have been referenced in Yahoo Group TJEDinAlberta (141 Members, Archives: Membership required; for families living in Alberta, who wish to implement a leadership model of education in their home. The method is described in A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver Van DeMille.) : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TJEDinAlberta/

Illuminating the Path:Table of Contents (also available as a 200 page book from IEEE Press for $35). Preface (84K PDF)Executive Summary (346K PDF)1. Grand Challenges (500K PDF)2. The Science of Analytical Reasoning (1.9MB PDF)3. Visual Representations and Interaction Technologies (4.6MB PDF)4. Data Representations and Transformations (560K PDF)5. Production, Presentation, and Dissemination (4.3MB PDF)6. Moving Research into Practice (848K PDF)7. Positioning for Enduring Success (108K PDF)Additional Reading (84K PDF)

Supporting Coherence with a 3D Instant Messenger Visualization : http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/papers/2002/02-Carmen.ChiWorkshop/02-Carmen.CHIWorkshop.pdf

Explorers by period or region : http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/

Apparently there are 281 links to site : http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain%3A1-900-870-6235.com&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&fr=slv1-&b=61

Embed a live version of a website traffic map into your site : http://www.123count.com/add_map.cgi?user=count123&area= (requires a premium traffic account with them however).

"Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly, as when they discuss it freely." - Macaulay

12 August 2005

Yahoo! launches pay-per-call service : http://www.netimperative.com/2005/08/10/Yahoo_pay_per_call
Pay-Per-Call is billed as an alternative to traditional pay-per-click search advertising. .. The advertiser is only required to pay for the adverts that result in phone calls, in much the same way pay-per-click advertising only charges for visitors sent to a website. .. Users who have selected the retailer and offer, which best fits their needs, will be able to contact the advertiser directly by phone to make a purchase... The pay-per-call option will facilitate the development of personal customer communications and bespoke customer services through the internet.
Added Zooming functionality to "Happiness" and "Love" roll overs on http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/TheGreatIdeas.htm


HandDrawnMapPrint HandDrawnMapPrint, originally uploaded by rwild.
Need to blog all development URLs (for example http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/HandDrawnMap.htm ) to facilitate independent off-site access validation.

"If you could choose the easy way or the fun way, which would you choose? (Hint: Looking for the easy way usually means you're messing with the cursed how's. Besides, the fun way always turns out to be the easy way, no matter how things appear in the beginning. Although the reverse can hardly ever be said.)" - The Universe

11 August 2005

A mind map is a visual representation of ideas and concepts. The Emblaze mind map provides a snapshot of our entire company essence in a single visual map : http://www.emblaze.com/site/

A year old now --->
Labyrinths are thought to enhance right brain activity : http://www.labyrinthsociety.org/html/about_labyrinths.html
"A raft of new Internet sites and services is borrowing from hip-hop culture's mash-ups, which combine two tunes to produce an entirely new song. Likewise, hackers are combining the data and features of two or more Web sites, creating entirely new, independent Web mash-ups that in the best cases transcend either of their forebears (most mash-ups are free, noncommercial experiments by hackers who want to customize their own Web experience)" : http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/07/mashups/index_01.htm
"Map Sites a Good Place to Find Searchers (5 Aug 2005) Looking up directions and using map sites are among the most common online activities, reports eMarketer. Some 85 percent of internet users in the U.S. have searched for maps or driving directions online (at number one, 88 percent do so to research specific topics; at number three, 64 percent search for news about current events). Hitwise data finds that Yahoo and MapQuest are the leading map sites. For the week ending July 23, Yahoo was the most-visited map site, with a 41 percent share, followed by MapQuest ,with 33.4 percent. Google's new site accounted for nearly 10 percent. From http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2005/08/05/map_sites_a_good_place_to_find_searchers/index.php

"You have an in-depth knowledge of information architecture and business analysis methodologies, but are also a creative thinker, with a desire to experiment with new ideas and solutions." (= me) from http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/about/careers.html

10 August 2005

Google mapper: Take browsers to the limit : http://news.com.com/Google+mapper+Take+browsers+to+the+limit/2100-1038_3-5808658.html

Parthenon Graphics Timelines : http://chaos1.hypermart.net/PGHome.htm

"2. The James Burke hypermedia map
This is a single image with links to a variety of media sites all involving the author James Burke. Best known for the books and television series Connections and The Day the Universe Changed, Burke is the subject of this image map which presents a set of graphic links to outside content. (Burke did not create this site but it does fit well with his approach to writing 'connected' history of science material.)" From http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/wignall/idesign/03_1.htm

"Eric Grohe creates mural art that transforms the environment and communities as well." - http://www.ericgrohemurals.com/projects.html

From http://www.artknowledgenews.com/?q=quotes&from=18 ;
‘If you know where it’s going, it’s not worth doing." - Lee Strasberg (That’s the life of the artist.) "Here be dragons..." - Ancient map notation indicating threshold of the unknown.

"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down. That is the Artist's Way." - Julia Cameron
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." - Oscar Wilde
"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture." - Jean Cocteau
"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." - St. Francis of Assisi
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts." Sir Joshua Reynolds
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." - Paul Gauguin
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work." - Emile Zola
"I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it." - Steven Wright
"In life you don't even have to know how you got where you are, in order to get where you want to go." - The Universe
"Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic." - Dave Barry