Links of the moment:
- Statistician Nathan Yau's Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story is a timely post on the value of narrative (and personality) in information design. The text touches on the New York Times, Jonathan Harris and Hans Rosling's Gapminder project (pictured above).
- On the topic of the New York Times, yesterday Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web posted about the arrival of the New York Time's API. Marshall astutely points out how this is a benchmark development in the ongoing retooling of the newspaper industry - "The newspaper is far better prepared to organize raw information, and perhaps offer complimentary content, than any individual blogger or small news publisher".
- Earnest Cavelli's Life as a Disabled Gamer summarizes the author's experience gaming in light of his Cerebral Palsy. This illuminating text highlights how this disability has influenced the genres of games Cavelli has gravitated towards, his interfacing with controllers and his experience socializing in game space.
- Jimmy Stamp just posted a great interview with writer (and now director) Charlie Kaufman on Life Without Buildings. The discussion provides a great sneak preview of Kaufman's forthcoming Synecdoche, New York.
- A September post I keep coming back to is Hello World! by William J. Turkel at Digital History Hacks. The text speculates what the physical manifestation of a "Hello World" program might be in light of emerging fabrication and prototyping technologies.
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