I’m in the process of developing an online visual explanation SlideShare presentation about plastic water bottles and ocean pollution for my blog SaveTheOcean (and to share with other Ocean advocacy organizations). I’ve liked both Cliff Atkinson’s and Nancy Duarte’s presentation development methodologies, but for some reason have still felt the need to combine [...]

As a web and multimedia developer, I work with photos provided by clients to incorporate into websites on a daily basis. A common problem I run into is that a lot of people don’t understand some really basic things about digital images. For example, I’m often provided photos that are way too small for the [...]

Every visual thinking blogger in the blogosphere is going to be blogging about it, but it’s just so damn cool that I have to do it too. Information Architects have just released their Web Trend Map 4. Popular domains on the Web are mapped to the Tokyo Metro and [...]

At VizThink ’09, Ole Qvist-Sorensen challenged the audience during his general session presentation, “Survival Academy: Imagining a Better World with Visual Language, Thinking and Practice,” how we as visual thinkers could contribute to saving the world by putting our talents to work on global problems. That struck a chord with me, so one of [...]

At the recent TED conference, Pattie Maes presented Sixth Sense, a wearable device that projects images on the users’ environment, opening some really cool possibilities for data interaction with real life objects. Lots of people are comparing it to Minority Report, but to me it more closely resembles the world described by Vernor Vinge [...]

I brought along a tiny little video camera called the GoPro to VizThink and tried it out at Tuesday morning’s general session. It’s a wide angle lens camera with a limitation of 56 minutes of video and really limited audio. I set up the camera on the table during the general session [...]

Finally back home after family visit following VizThink in San Jose. Day 2 was a heavy hitter, packed with content from the start. The morning kicked off with general session, featuring some sponsor presentations followed by Ole Qvist-Sorensen presentation, Survival Academy: Imagining a Better World with Visual Language, Thinking and Practice. Ole asked us how [...]

Starting out on day 2 here in San Jose. Day one was a whirlwind of networking and sessions. Started out in the morning general session with Tom’s Table Scramble, chaos and commotion in the main conference room as Tom created networking opportunities for people along with a real-time live data visualization using the attendees ourselves [...]

VizThink 09 kicked off today with the opening reception in the lobby lounge, along with an Fairmont’s Oscar party. By my count about 60 – 70 VizThinkers congregated around the bar under the big screen broadcasting the Oscars. Lots of conversation, mingling and networking going on. A bit noisy and congested for my taste so [...]

Karen and I arrived to the conference hotel late Friday night and spent most of Saturday wandering around the neighborhood checking out restaurant options. More on that below.

The Tweet-up was scheduled for 6:00 in the hotel lobby and we arrived around 6:15- 6:30 and didn’t see anyone we recognized or any indication of a [...]