New York Times: Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data. The Times look at Many Eyes, site was created by scientists at the Watson Research Center of I.B.M. in Cambridge, Mass. Above is a visualization of Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, and below is a […]
Archives for August 2008
Steve Rosenbaum on Magnify.net
Steve Rosenbaum on Magnify.net from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 5-minute video interview I conducted with Steve Rosenbaum, a pioneer in the field of user-created video and the founder and CEO of Magnify.net. Steve talks about the explosion of thousands of channels on the service, such as Native American Tube, a channel that hosts […]
McCain: US as a debtor nation not a big priority
John McCain: U.S. as a debtor nation not a big priority from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s footage I shot of Sen. John McCain at Stanford University on Aug. 1, 2007, when he was still a longshot for the Republican nomination for president. In this 3-minute clip, McCain says of the United States’ dependence on […]
Ubiquity for Firefox: Mashups for regular folks
This is one of the best screencasts I’ve ever seen: It comes to us from Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. The screencast introduces Ubiquity for Firefox, a plug-in still in its early stages that will turbocharge your Firefox browser. As the Mozilla Labs blog says: You’re writing an email to invite […]
An experiment in youth engagement
An experiment in youth engagement from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the MIT Media Lab recently I interviewed Karen A. Brennan of the wonderfully named Lifelong Kindergarten program (description of programs here) about an MIT project called Scratch. In this 3-minute video she tells how youth personal engagement translates into adult civic engagement, bringing […]