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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags research & presentation

December 2006

Edward Tufte home site

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lots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."

Gene Pool

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a science game: "a virtual Darwinian aquarium .. you initiate a primordial soup, and .. check up on what Virtual Mother Nature is up to - about every 15 min. (or every few days)"

November 2006

soundtoys.net -

ejournal; interactive web soundtoys, artworks and related texts

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

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very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

Visual thinking school on Squidoo

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basic concepts broken down into useful small steps, with many visual examples to guide process. Web 2.0 in that it provides for interaction and author's introduction to sections.

StumbleUpon

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Firefox extension offers an addictive way to search via categories or keywords or happenstance; you train it, with thumbs up or down on sites, so it learns your tastes; I prefer searches on keywords so far, and have had little desire to "network"

October 2006

graphic illustration of data about US

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I learned new search terms for visualization: infosthetics or infoviz.

June 2006

BlogBib

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An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs...