June 17, 2009 | By Kenny

Wordle

Word-based visualization at its funest. Wordle generates word clouds from text that you provide. It enables you to see how frequently words appear in a given text. You can tweak your word clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Above is an excerpt I generated from Bryan Lawson's book, How Designers Think.

More on information visualization, visit ManyEyes. Launched by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas from IBM's Visual Communication Lab, Man ...

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May 26, 2009 | By Kenny

June '09, New Yorker Cover

Painted by Jorge Colombo using iPhone Brushes App. You can check out a video of how it was done here.

April 21, 2009 | By Kenny

Total Recall

I read a article in FastCompany about 3 years ago about a guy who carried around a video camera and recorded every waking moment of his day and had done so for several years. He could literally, at any time, reference exact conversations he had, places he went, things he saw, people he met—to the second. Essentially he had an external HD brain that, unlike the human brain, had precise memory recall at any moment.

We might not be at "every second of the day" yet but Evernote seems to be a step in that direction. ...

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