web Stop making pincushion maps! Originally posted at The Cassowary Project. There has been an explosion in the use of maps to visualise data, prompted by the rise of the "data scientist", available open data, and
academic Publishing PhD theses PhDs take years, are an "original contribution to knowledge", and are generally paid for by the taxpayer. They are then generally read by a handful of people -- generally a supervisor
sound Rethinking Sound and the Web: Part 3 This idea which I've blogged about previously was worked into a bid for a British Library Labs competition. My submission was unsuccessful but here's where I'm up to for another date. This article
sound Sounds and the Web Don't Work Generally speaking, I think the web handles audio very badly. By comparison, photos and visual data are handled very well, with automatic thumbnails, lightboxes and the light being de-rigueur on the modern web.