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Search Patterns - A Visual feast for students of SEARCH

I have just read Search Patterns, a collaboration by Peter Morville of Semantic Studios, and Jefferey Callendar of Q LTD in ebook form from O'Reilly Books. The print version will be available soon, but it's worth buying the print/ebook version to get a first look at what Morville and Callendar have wrought.

Search Patterns is a comprehensively written and beautifully illustrated compendium covering every aspect of SEARCH filled with original art and copious screen-shot examples that make this book a treasure trove of valuable insight and commentary from Morville's perspective as a well-respected Information Architect. As the author opines in the book:

"Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of discovery while serving as a practical guide to help us make search applications better today."

I intend to accept the author's cartoon invitation below to learn more at their companion website. Search Patterns: Design for Discovery:

Search Patterns: Design for Discovery: "Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of discovery while serving as a practical guide to help us make search applications better today."

Marc Ngui | Drawing - Art

Marc Ngui | Drawing - Art

what makes good information design?

The infographic designer, a brit named Mcandless riffs on the subject - The Venn diagram is possibly useful in mapping the subject. Here's his profile picture from the blog - looks a bit evil, doesn't he?

Click here to see a larger image and a few comments by the artist.

Interesting, Easy, Beautiful, True? | Information Is Beautiful

altus' Ted Cocheu and Robert Scoble.

A voice from my past experiences at the eLearning Forum several years ago brought alive in a recent video interview of Altus CEO Ted Cocheu by Robert Scoble. = great explanation of the altus dynamic knowledge repository service.If the video is on the Altus knowledge base, it would represent an opportunity to add a meta level graphic user interface of a scribed recording of the interview.

Carl Jung’s Red Book - The Archetypal Philosopher in search of his soul

Carl Jung had a real mid-life crisis - the loss of his soul. The Red Book is his personal recording in art and calligraphy done over the 10 years from 1910 to 1920 during which he sought inwardly for the soul he had lost. The book lay in a safe deposit vault in Zurich for several decades and was just released to the public in an exhibit at the Rubin Art Museum in New York Here's what blogger The Beautiful Brain said about the exhibit:

'The magic in this exhibit is in its reminder to the contemporary viewer of the powers of introspection, the sense that there are vast worlds within each of us that await the curious traveler.'

REVIEW: Jung’s Red Book Unveiled in Manhattan�|�The Beautiful Brain

Be sure to watch the video embedded below. It is is a thrilling glimpse into the digital capture of the Red Book for broader publication. View the video in full screen for maximum impact. I intend to read the Red Book to see how Jung found his soul after scouring his inner mind for guidance.

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CONTINUOUS PARTIAL ATTENTION - AGAIN

This image from VisualsSpeak artist Christine Martell shows how I feel when I consider the CPA dilemma of my digital lifestream. I mentioned Linda Stone's coinage of the term CPA here Thoughts Illustrated: Who is Linda Stone and why should we listen to her?

Christine places this image in her Options portion of the VisualsSpeak image gallery. Take a look - you might find just the image you need from her expanding collection, mostly from her own artistry.VisualsSpeak LLC

IGN Video: My Personal Trainer with IMG Academies and David Leadbetter Nintendo Wii Trailer - Interactive Golf Trailer

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Armano scores again

Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr

The Value of Visual Thinking in Social Business

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rypple - find out what people really think about you

John Kelleher from Rypple on Vimeo.

This testimonial video is a strong example of the use of Vimeo and also an introduction to Rypple - a social networking tool of real value.

Leveraging your presentation power

Image by SlideShare via CrunchBase

I have been an avid fan of SlideShare since it launched - it has all the elements of DonTapscott's Wikinomics: Open, Peering,Sharing, Global. IMO Slideshare for Business is a brilliant commercial move for the company.

Rashmi Sinha(shown here) is the genius behind the company.

Check out this SlideShare Presentation, which exemplifies Presentation Zen it its style and will give you another way to unlock the value in your presentations.

Introducing SlideShare Business

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Finally! a formula for valuing internet startups

At last we have the formula for valuing internet startups! Here it is:

"In order to determine the valuation of companies, Bhatnagar typically applies the following formula: [(Twitter followers x Facebook fans) + (# of employees x 1000)] x (RSS subscribers + daily page views) + (monthly burn rate x Google’s stock price)2 and then doubles if it they use Ruby on Rails or if the CEO has run a business into the ground before. Bhatnagar admits the math is mostly a guess but points out that “the press eats it up.”

Thanks to Jason Freid for his priceless sense of humor.

PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT - (37signals)

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web meetings on my iPhone

Image via Wikipedia

I just got a new iPhone - and my first use will be a Virtual Visuals test using the Webex meeting app. View the video for a taste.

to Tweet or not to Tweet

Image via CrunchBase

I am not a Twitterer and I have resisted the pressure to join the mob - since I was first introduced to Twitter over two years ago by the biggest Twit of them all - Robert Scoble Thoughts Illustrated: Lunching with Scoble and by my then working colleague Critt Jarvis.

So I was enlightened by this recent "study" Twitter Study Reveals Interesting Results - 40% is "Pointless Babble" | Pear Analytics and downloaded the Pear Analytics White Paper pdf from this link. If you are the least bit interested in Twitter - get the White Paper for yourself.

This all started up again this morning by a tweet from Critt, whom I have been mostly out of contact with, and a link to his blog Why Scoble's Twitter valuation is correct... | Critt Jarvis where I get Critt's "i told you so!" treatment.

The upshot of all this Twittering is the recognition, seldom revealed to infrequent Twitter users, that the combination of a tweet with a link to a more in-depth post of some consequence to the recipient of the tweet does have value - as I mentioned here a year ago Thoughts Illustrated: from twitter to youtube - nice segue from Garr Reynolds

All of which once againn proves that you can eat up a lot of time on Twitter even if you rarely use it. Preparing this post which resulted from Critt's tweet has taken me back to my TI archives and an elapsed time of 23 minutes stolen from my continuous partial attention stream this morning.

Did I learn anything useful in reading the Twitter Study? Did you? Was it Pointless Babble or a weird extension of a dangling conversation that started more than two years ago? What it did do is make me review my blog "memory" to recall the thread on Twitter started in March of 2007 during my lunch with Scoble.

Scoble, Critt and I have gone our separate ways since then, but this morning's tweet brought it all back - and presented me with a reason to reconsider Twitter as a social media tool of value.

Visual Gisting - How to Improve your Return on Attention (ROA).

The theme of this blog: Thoughts Illustrated -- is based on the old adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words"

In this post, I will give you an example of the value of that old adage.

If you listen to a standard speech with no long pauses it would be about 70 words per minute
( source WikiAnswers)


click on the image for a bigger version.



Yesterday I listened to a 45 minute YiTan call-in conference conversation between Jerry Michalski and Doug Rushkoff , author of Life Inc. (Estimated word count 3150 words, elapsed time 2700 seconds)

The image above is a "visual gist" created by my partner Joe Sterling as he listened in to the call. IMO it contains the essence of the conversation and can be scanned in less than 10 seconds to get the gist. ( 3150 words= 270o seconds, gist =10 seconds - ROA 270X) Also, you can select
certain "objects" from the visual gist , and , in the very near future we will enable"hot spots" on these images so that when you "mouse over" an object or text item in the visual gist, you will be linked directly to a brief snippet from the full audio track saved in the YiTan archive, and if you find the snippet(s) interesting, you can then download the full audio podcast into your iTunes playlist for later listening as a part of your personal knowledge library.

OR, you can learn more about Doug's book from from Amazon and.......

• watch a 9 minute video of Doug promoting his bookAmazon.com : Entertainment : Douglas Rushkoff on "Life Inc."
• Buy the book in hard copy form Amazon.com: Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back (9781400066896): Douglas Rushkoff: Books
• Download it to your kindle Amazon.com: Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back: Douglas Rushkoff: The Kindle Store
• or, order an audio version from Audible .com Download Life Inc. (Unabridged) | Douglas Rushkoff | Life Inc. (Unabridged) Audio Book unabridged | Audible Audiobooks | Audible.com

ROA analysis:

1. The visual gist can be scanned in 10 seconds, and you can ( when we have it activated) link directly to the snippet of the audio podcast from YiTan and listen just to that snippet( 30 -60 seconds) So far: Total elapsed time 40 seconds.
   
2. You can continue the snippet process from #1 above to link to other audio clips related to objects on the image, or you can save the full podcast to your audio library on iTunes (30 seconds)
   
3. The visual gist can be "played back" in synchrony with the podcast, so that you will SEE the visual unfolding along with the audio stream. Or you can turn off the sound and just watch the picture play forward. (This is not a great ROA, but it might suit your viewing/listening style)
4. You can share the visual gist with any one and soon you will be able to annotate the image with tags and hotspot links of your own, including other resources on the internet that relate to the visual gist
5. By saving your visual gists into a gallery of images, you can easily scan your collection of visuals quickly and link from the gallery to the full multimedia archive of your knowledge library.
   

So, to summarize,visual gisting is a powerful way to gain Return on Attention. To bring this powerful visual capability to anyone, anywhere, any time, we are training a cadre of master visualizers to use new digital tools that can link them to any webmeeting, or audio conference to do what Joe did during yesterday's YiTan call.

If you want to know more about how you can employ visual gisting in your webmeetings or conference calls, please leave a comment or visit Home Page

Tom Wujec - BigViz Revizited

In this brief TED talk, Tom Wujec shows how the brain works visually to create and share meaning. The video track segment from 2:00 to 4:30 provides the gist of his talk. Click below to play.



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The Future Internet from the European Union

Anticipating that every idea, thing, person, process in the world is becoming linked on the net 24/7, the EU is investing in the Semantic Web as a solution for the overwhelming flood of data.

This short, animated whiteboard video clip offers a timely look into the what the EU calls the Future Internet.

Hat tip to Rob Kruse of Venlogic for the link

Click below to play

"He's Barack Obama" --a cool "sendable"from JibJab

JibJab leverages the Obama "brand" to promote its e-card Sendables and offers a behind the scenes look at how they produced this cooool Sendable.

I am going "backstage" to see how JibJab does it and will post my findings on their "secret sauce".



Click on the arrow to play and enjoy!

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Semantic Web Marketing explained - by Scott Brinker -

Here's a sneak preview of a presentation that Scott Brinker, an SEO marketing guru will be presenting at the Semantic Technology Conference on June 16 in San Jose.

I post it here for 3 reasons:

1. It exemplifies the best practices of Garr Reynolds Presentation Zen Thoughts Illustrated: Ah So! PresentationZen - a book every presenter must read
   
2. It describes a difficult concept ( Semantic Marketing) in a simple, powerful way
3. It defines an early adopter business model for "semantic savvy" devolopers.

Kudos to Scott and to Rob Kruse of Venlogic for the link.

You may want to click on the slideshare logo to get a full screen version of the presentation which is embedded below:

Data Web Marketing

View more OpenOffice presentations from sjbrinker.

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Game Web 2.Over? - "crossing out" the Web 2.0 dropouts

a neat way to show the dropout rate of previous Web 2.0 companies - cross out their logos. For the full article click here:

Game Web 2.Over? - meish dot org: life, unfolding

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