Tag: Communication

A cool visualization of nouns

80 Million Tiny Images
Working with text analytics, I found this visualization of all nouns in the English language pretty neat. The coolest thing is the patterns you see emerging based on the semantic meaning of words.

Information R/evolution

This is a great video about the nature of information and how it has transformed in moving from paper to digital.

Ever-helpful error messages

I don’t know what happened, but one of my applications crashed and before it died, it gave me these helpful error messages:

How thoughtful of the developers to give me a preemptive notification that something was about to go wrong, giving me no options to resolve the problem. One has to wonder what the point of […]

Putting news to good use

It’s really amazing how many ways people find to visualize and use news. Here are a few of my favorites. (Click the pictures for more information.)
NewsBreaker

NewsBreaker is MSNBC’s version of the classic Breakout game that fetches articles from RSS feeds based on which block you hit. There is also a screen saver.
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eRiceCooker

eRiceCooker tracks Internet news […]

Preemptive notification

(flickr tag: annoying)
Twice today I received preemptive notifications of notifications.
First, I plugged in my mp3 player so I could update it. The first message I got was “Preparing to scan for tracks.” This was shortly followed by “Scanning for tracks.” Later, I bought a book from Barnes & Noble’s website. […]

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