Monthly Archives: October 2008

Book review: The Ghost Map

  • Renee Anderson
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

My review


rating: 4 of 5 stars
While “The Ghost Map” by Steven Johnson has been described as a study about the…

Presentation from Web 2.0 Expo Europe on Checking the “Feel” of your UI

Josh Damon Williams
  • Josh Damon Williams
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I’m just back from Berlin, where it was my privileged to speak at the Web 2.0 Expo Europe earlier this week. The presentation was developed by Peter Stahl (eBay’s lead designer on our project) and myself, and it was largely based on a methodology we concocted together…

Join me at WordCamp Hawaii

Holly Hagen
  • Holly Hagen
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Hey all… if you are in Hawaii this week (and I know you all wish you were), help me wind down Geek Week at PodCamp + WordCamp Hawaii. I’ll be speaking on Saturday about how you can reinforce your personal or company’s brand by doing simple…

Jumping for Serious Play

Laura Haertling
  • Laura Haertling
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This year?s Art Center Design Conference was about Serious Play.

As guest program director Chee Pearlman explained, ?the tradition of play has evolved through the playful experiment of Charles and Ray Eames, who professed, ?toys are not as innocent as they look, they are often