Hereâ??s a list of my recent bibliographic references: > Bibliography

From a discussion in my Signs of Life class I decided to explore a little more the concept of the prefix tele- in my thesis writing lab context paper: â??If we explore the word syntax structure of most communication tools prior to the Internet, such as telegraph, telex, telegram, and telephone, we encounter the constant presence of the prefix tele-. Tele is a greek word that means â??at a

Just bought the new book â??Creative Codeâ?? from John Maeda. Pretty interesting even thought itâ??s not about Maedaâ??s work but his considerations over other new media artists/designers. Concentrating mostly in the work developed at the Aesthetics and Computation Group at MIT Media Lab, the book exposes a few known names, such as: Yugo Nakamura, Martin Wattenberg, Ben Fry, Golan Levin, Casey Reas, among

Here itâ??s my first visual prototype shown at the mid-term review. The underlying concept was based on a major aspiration: nodes local stability and links global connectivity. What I tried was to position the nodes in a structured way, so they would remain fixed, and to some level, under control. The links, however, would be in constant change and the outcome would be highly random and

Exactly a month ago, on September 24th, Technorati hit the 4 million mark, and itâ??s currently tracking 4,379,577 blogs. Coincidently, 4 days before, Wikipedia Foundation announced the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia. Interesting coincidence.

This link contains very interesting statistics from LiveJournalâ??s blog community, tracking 4.918.064 blogs/journals. The age distribution results are not surprising but I was impressed with the majority of blogs (67.1%) being maintained by women, against menâ??s less then half percentage of 32.9%. The raw data is free to use.

Yesterday I went to the Chelsea Art Museum and I was happy to see Bradford Paleyâ??s Code Profiles project. CodeProfiles was written in August 2002 and commissioned by Christiane Paul, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. â??Code Profiles is a software that displays its underlying code and comments on itself. The code reads in its own source and displays it in a tiny font. As users

While in Austin for the InfoVis 2004 Conference I took some pictures of the city. If you're interested check this link: Austin Images

After two and a half months of a lot of reading and extensive research in complex networks visualization, which coincided with the conclusion of a parallel project developed at PIIM, I believe itâ??s time to delve deep into the production/design phase. As much as I like to research and analyze other peopleâ??s projects, Iâ??m eager to start developing my own concept. Iâ??ve been doing a lot of sketching

Geotime The first project showed at InfoVis 2004, on Monday 8:30 AM, was one of the most innovative. Geotime by Thomas Kapler is a project financed by NGA and it aims to analyze observations over Time and Geography, which is a particular hard task to visualize. I believe this project is one of the best that Iâ??ve seen in overlapping these two realms. For more information hereâ??s a link to the

I just returned from the InfoVis 2004 Conference in Austin, Texas. As the only Parsons student present at the Conference I feel the responsibility of exposing some of the projects shown there. This trip was sponsored by â??PIIM - Parsons Institute of Information Mappingâ?? where Iâ??ve been working for the past month as a design researcher. I went together with Takaaki Okada, also from PIIM. We

Thread Arcs is a fresh interactive visualization technique designed to help people use threads found in email. â??Thread Arcs combine the chronology of messages with the branching tree structure of a conversational thread in a mixed-model visualization that is stable and compact. By quickly scanning and interacting with Thread Arcs, people can see various attributes of conversations and

Radial Form of Organization Chart (1924) Alexander Hamilton Institute â??The radial form of organization chart, showed in the image, has not so much to recommend it as the block and line system. In the first place it is difficult to draw it so as to show lines of authority. It places the emphasis on the central authority, while making it difficult to ascertain the relations of the subordinate

My thesis assertion has always been the visualization of dissemin ation patterns in a particular scale-free network. How does a particular disease travel from point A to B, which nodes it affects in its course and how fast if contaminates a large cluster or the entire network. The path and duration of a certain fad, idea, or virus, in a social/biological or computer network has been, since the

Iâ??ve tried several open-source network visualization tools and seen hundreds of visualization examples. I think I found a critical problem. In most tools Iâ??ve seen, the user starts building its network from an initial node. The user places the first node in the cen ter of the drawing board and then, node after node, link after link, the network starts expanding. Since thereâ??s no preceding method of

"Complexity is a challenge by itself. Complex Networks are everywhere. It is a structural and organizational principle that reaches almost every field we can think of, from genes to power systems, from food webs to market shares. Paraphrasing Albert Barabasi, one of the leading researchers in this area, 'the mistery of life begins with the intricate web of interactions, integrating the millions of

â??TextArc is a tool designed to help people discover patterns and concepts in any text by leveraging a powerful, underused resource: human visual processing. It compliments approaches such as Statistical Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics by providing an overview, letting intuition help extract meaning from an unread text. TextArc represents the entire text as two

Complex Networks are difficult to visualize, but we don't need to make them more complex in the process of trying.

"Functio nal visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans." Matt Woolman Digital Information

Although I already knew about Refworks References.

Until now I was trying not to incorporate Ben Fry in my list of references or key thinkers, for the only reason that everyone does. Going through the MFADT Thesis Archive it is hard to find a project that doesnâ??t mention the work of Ben Fry. Anyway, I guess that, as much as I tried not to, I will have to refer his work, particularly in two projects that correlate with my thesis subject.

Interestingly enough I found several companies offering products focusing on social networking management. Donâ??t just get to the people you know, get to the people they know. Manage your friend-of-a-friend network in order to find the shortest path for whatever youâ??re looking. Here is a list of companies selling this kind of software: > Spoke Software (link) Visible Path (link) SRD (link)