• Popcorn Taxi – CORY DOCTOROW Debates the Digital Future
  Date: Wednesday, April, 19th, 2006 Where: Greater Union Bondi Junction Who’s coming?
  (tags: Popcorn-Taxi Cory-Doctorow DRM film)
• Wayfaring
  Another of those social mapping sites, like Platial, which I reviewed earlier. They seem to be v popular don’t they… I wonder if its a passing fad.
  (tags: maps SocialNetworks Social travel web2.0 mapping)
• Where’s The Search? Re-examining User Expectations of Web Objects
  In 2001, Bernard determined that users were able to form a schema for the location of web objects on informational websites. The current study investigates whether users’ expectations have changed since the 2001 study. Changes were found in the expected l
  (tags: usability interactiondesign search)
• Does Search Need to be in the Upper Right? (UIE)
  in which Jared Spool argues that research that shows that users expect search to be located in the upper right side of a website doesn’t mean that its any less usable positioned elsewhere
  (tags: usability search interactiondesign)

argh. I can’t believe its 19 March already! Hope you all had a great weekend :)

Just one little link for you today, continuing some earlier thoughts on tag clouds and their potential for non-evilness.

• Tag Cloud Usability Guidelines
  a few guidelines for tag cloud usability, arrived at by playing with a number of tag cloud implementations. These are all fairly straightforward derivations of common usability heuristics.
  (tags: tagcloud usability tags)

• Sparkline PHP Graphing Library
  Sparklines are “intense, simple, wordlike graphics” so named by Edward Tufte. Great visual device
  (tags: design informationdesign tufte visualisation sparklines)
• Particletree · Lightbox Gone Wild!
  lightbox can be used to provide additional info, show an image or present a form for user input, makes it easy to extend a web application’s interface without having to add clutter.
  (tags: interfacedesign Javascript demo)
• the unseen video – milosh – you make me feel
  The Unseen Video is much more than a normal, static music video. It is a video that is affected by the weather and local time from the position of the viewer. V nice. V cool.
  (tags: dynamicVideo ambient flash music visualization inspiration)
• Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays in a book | munterbund.de
  A collection of essays is collated for readers with visualizing graphics. The graphics should both serve as a thematic and structural overview of each text, and pose the essay in question in relation to the other essays in the book.
  (tags: visualisation design informationdesign)
• The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press
  why have I not looked for this earlier?! (actually, its a little underwhelming, but,.. its still Tufte and we love him)
  (tags: Tufte visualisation informationdesign)

• Functional specs subvert the hierarchy of nature – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
  more on the ‘func specs are evil’ discussion… commentary to follow
  (tags: agiledesign gettingreal 37Signals methodology documentation)