May 25, 2008
OKFN visualisation workshop
I'm writing this from the train journey back from the Open Knowledge Foundation's first visualisation workshop held at Trampoline System's offices in The Foundry, London.
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Apr 23, 2008
Decentralisation and the wisdom of crowds
I've recently been reading The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. It's an interesting book, and despite many America-centric examples the author uses (which I quickly started to skim over),I recommend it to anyone who's interested in the notion of 'crowd' intelligence. As a user and writer of Free Software, I was particularly keen to read the chapter on decentralisation, which uses GNU/Linux as an example of where decentralisation has been successful. On this subject Surowiecki writes:
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Apr 03, 2008
Tufte on 'Designs for the Display of Information'
" Design is choice. The theory of the visual display of quantitative information consists of principles that generate design options and that guide choices among options. The principles should not be applied rigidly or in a peevish spirit; they are not logically or mathematically certain; and it is better to violate any principle than to place graceless or inelegant marks on paper. Most principles of design should be greeted with some scepticism, for word authority can dominate our vision, and we may come to see only through the lenses of word authority rather than with our own eyes.
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Mar 28, 2008
Customisation, part I: Jamie Bullock's law of customisation
Customisation potential is directly proportional to wasted time
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Mar 07, 2008
Splash out!
Early this week I spent an hour or two adding a nice splash screen to Braun. I thought it would give the application a sense of polish and professionalism, and give the user something to look at whilst the app was loading. A day later I spent 10 minutes removing it!
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