Links for August 22nd through August 31st
Fleshmap: Studies of Desire this is a new art/dataviz project by martin and fernanda from ibm research. i gotta say i was a little surprised by the content, and design-wise it's a little, uh, cheesy. but the visuals and the data are still fascinating. totally press/blog/digg fodder, which is probably at least part of the intention. also cool they have evidently moved to javascript for a lot of the interaction here, which seems like a step forward.
Emotionally}Vague: A research project about emotion, sensation and feeling. via arikan and kjhollen. survey project asking people to associate colors, words, and self-depictions with various emotions. cleanly designed, and the results are interesting to look at and more touching than i expected.
Tech Making Traditional VCs Obsolete From huned, a cool Wired article on the shift from traditional tech VC to angel 'micro' investing. "classic V.C.'s simply have too much money under management, and too expensive a talent pool, to waste time looking at investing anything less than $10 million in a project. Meantime, no entrepreneur wants to give up equity by taking in more money than he absolutely needs. So, when it only costs a few million to get a serious new company off the ground, how can the V.C.'s really play?"
JSC Digital Image Collection great nasa photo/image archive. i like that it includes pictures of people plus images from orbit.
www.24postcards.co.uk music designed for ringtones. i want this. from the record label: "An attempt an exploration of the ringtone as a vehicle for music performance , ‘24 Postcards…’ is an experimental work made up of 24 classically-composed ringtones, set to be premièred in various gallery spaces. The première is intended to be in the form of a series of installations where pre-registered audience members switch on their phones to receive SMS messages, each message alert playing back one or more of the tracks, so making up the performance. In tandem with this release, will be a micro-website hosting 24 photographic images, one accompanying each track."
Brad Neely’s JFK incredible genius brady neely goodness
Veer: Products: Type: Burgues Script beautiful script typeface. i like the opentype variations.
SpaceCollective pretty incredible set of images, but i don't quite understand the site/collective. ffffound fodder for sure.
OpenCalais Heard about this from Dan Schmidt. This Reuters service analyzes text and parses out entities! if this works well this is huge. "The Calais Web Service automatically creates rich semantic metadata for the content you submit – in well under a second. Using natural language processing, machine learning and other methods, Calais analyzes your document and finds the entities within it. But, Calais goes well beyond classic entity identification and returns the facts and events hidden within your text as well."
A Fundraising Survival Guide "There will be a tendency, as a deal progresses, to start to believe it will happen, and then to depend on it happening. You must resist this. Tie yourself to the mast. This is what kills you. Deals do not have a trajectory like most other human interactions, where shared plans solidify linearly over time. Deals often fall through at the last moment. Often the other party doesn't really think about what they want till the last moment. So you can't use your everyday intuitions about shared plans as a guide. When it comes to deals, you have to consciously turn them off and become pathologically cynical."
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