WWW.Wow. Where else could you find TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, Yo Yo Ma, Herbie Hancock and ESRI‘s Jack Dangermond all in one place? It’s the WWW.WWW Conference, currently planned for September 18/20, 2012. The conference website describes it as: WWW.WWW will be a gathering of the greatest, most interesting & curious minds in the … Read more
Curiosities #1 (09/02/22): It seems that while updating my, by now back on WordPress, blog I discover and dust off this gem from eleven years ago. I am in the process of consolidating some of my writings into the new Blogger format. As much as I love the integration, flexibility and ownership of a self-hosted … Read more
I appear to be a late joiner to Google+, if the list of people in my contact’s circles are any indication. It appears to have pulled my info from LinkedIn and has features of Facebook and a very interesting what if discussion among designers going on. I expect it will be a similar experience to … Read more
(this article originally appeared at iainstitute.org on June 20, 2011) Last month in May, I had the pleasure of attending the Enterprise Search Summit East in New York City with IA Institute board member, Shari Thurow. Shari and I were on a quest to discover the role of information architecture in Enterprise Search. We didn’t … Read more
pollacks@fdny.nyc.gov Please join us at the 2nd Annual NYC Arc User Symposium on Friday, June17th, 2011 at the 26 Federal Plaza Conference Center! There is no cost to attend but registration is required. Please register at: NYCArc User Group Symposium – ESRI Registration http://events.esri.com/info/index.cfm?fuseaction=seminarRegForm&shownumber=14674 Registration is filling rapidly so please register soon! Doors will open … Read more
From Michael Crino: Hi Folks, Details on the upcoming NYS GeoSpatial Summit, to be held June 16th, 2011 at the Welch-Allyn Lodge in Skaneateles, NY are now posted on the Summit website at www.nygeosummit.org. Register online today to reserve your attendance at this very special event. Registrations will be limited to the first 200 people. … Read more
At the IA Institute Annual Members’ Meeting held in Denver on April 2, the Board of Directors presented a new framework for characterizing the relationships that the Institute will mediate going forward. The framework came out of a board strategy meeting that I attended in Iceland back in February. Read more in the April newsletter … Read more
Matt Knudson invites you to attend an upcoming lecture of the Mercator Society. http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2011/04/26/toward-national-cartography-american-mapmaking-1782-1800 For details and to RSVP, email Matt at or call him at 212-930-0562. Toward a National Cartography:American Mapmaking, 1782-1800Michael Buehler, of Boston Rare Maps, will address the development of mapmaking in the United States in the years immediately after the American … Read more
http://urbandesignweek.org/by-the-city/reports/submit By the City/For the City invites you to partipate in design for a better New York City. The Institute for Urban Design presents an application that maps ideas for the City submitted by individual website users. By the City/For the City is a “digital placemaking app” designed by PPS: Project for Public Spaces as … Read more
The New York Times’ Interactive Map of the Damage from the Earthquake in Japan: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/newsgraphics/2011/0311-japan-earthquake-map/index.html?hp I was able to locate the town where my friend Pia’s brother is teaching English (center of quake zone but far from the nuclear plants, very little structural damage, no casualties) and where my daughter’s camp friend’s family lives (quite … Read more
