Books
Lev Manovich. The Language of New Media
Edward Tufte. Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Reas, Fry. Processing
Fry. Visualizing Information.
Neil Gershenfeld. FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop — From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

Articles/Publications
"The Deam Factory" Wired, 2005.
Wired
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Blogs
O'Reilly Radar

Organizations
FabLabs

I recently came across the work of Stefanie Posavec, who created a remarkable set of visualizations based on Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. She went through the manuscript line by line and analyzed for sentences, words, punctuation, themes, etc, and then created some really innovative ways of showing that.

I want one aspect of my thesis work to deal with the idea of visualization, particularly in finding interesting ways to show or explain the basic concept of technology and the web. I'm going to use this category to collect interesting examples of this type of work, even if they aren't completely related to technology.

One of our first exercises was to work through a personal vision statement, as a way of guiding us through the thesis exploration, as well as a way of generating a topic that we might actually want to work on for the next year and a half! I want to post mine here, so that I always have it to look back on as this site progresses.

personal-vision-as-presented.pdf

Can the abundant data online be utilized in such a way that it becomes a tool to explore an identity? a community? can it inspire action in the real world?

I'm starting this blog as a place to collect images and ideas that relate to the development of my thesis. My current grad seminar class is forming the major structure of this process right now, and in the course of my reading and investigating I want to put things here that stand out to me as significant or useful to my topic. When I get to the point of having to write my final document, I want to be able to look at this site and see how things evolved.