Welcome, the entire land
Hieroglyphs where used for over 3000 years by the Ancient Egyptians. Luckily, they are still studied and researched today, otherwise I couldn’t enlist others’ help in my crazy follies.
Þjóðfundur 02009: data mining a government
On November 14th, 02009, 1200+ Icelanders came together to discuss their vision for the future of their nation. As they spent the day discussion and jotting down their ideas, all of their data was catalogued and index. This information has been made freely available to anyone to further augment, visualize and mine it for more information. So we did.
7 Stages of a Mythic Adventure
As we build more and more products revolving around a community and a base of loyal customers, how do you turn first-time users into experts without losing them along the way?
One way to create an engaging experience is to formulate the ideas as a journey where the customer explores and slowly becomes an expert. This is just one model of a possible journey broken down into 7 mythic stages.
PST is the new GMT
Before the adoption of the prime meridian time and time zones were very imprecise. This week is the anniversary of codifying these time zone offsets which in an instant made the world a smaller place.
The Albatross Necklace 2.0
Place was the theme for the second issue of Scroll Magazine. This article was my first attempt at discussing Place and how it effects our lives. The article that was run was very different than this, but here it is in it’s original form in all it’s nonsensical glory.