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Category Archives: Picturing
Generative iris fibres
I made the above in a collaborative project with Jonathan McCabe. If you check his Flickr stream you can probably tell that he’s an awesome coder with ideas-aplenty. The project was to build a generative system to model something from … Continue reading
What the federal government does – first steps
At Govhack a small team of folks started working on the idea of visualising all the activities of the (Australian) federal government, so that as citizens we are better positioned to identify where we’d like to intervene in government processes. … Continue reading
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Tagged government, gov2au, visualisation, gov2.0, wtfgd
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Going to the govhack fest
With some trepidation due to my lack of geek credentials, I have registered to attend Govhack. Keen to find out how I can contribute. I’ve also added a project idea to the wiki, based on this idea. As a conceptual … Continue reading
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Tagged government, visual thinking, tool, gov2au, collaboration, wtfgd
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Seeing how to get things done
This week I’ve invested some time in thinking about time and how to spend it well. I was prompted by someone dear to me, who is currently challenged by a peculiar combination of: a disruptive schedule – teaching 9 classes … Continue reading
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Tagged doodle, drawing, effectiveness, graffle, GTD, indesign, productivity, visualisation
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A Government 2.0 idea – first, make all the functions visible
Senator Kate Lundy’s Public Sphere forum this week was exciting, not least because amongst all the compelling presentations, the Government 2.0 Taskforce was announced. Its role is not only to help the government navigate into the future of greater transparency … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, gov2au, government, innovation, visualisation, wtfgd
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Seeing the whole archive
Yesterday I went to Dr Mitchell Whitelaw’s impressive presentation at the National Archives, about his Visible Archive project. First, he gave a great introduction to why visualisations are important and how they can help you get a handle on a … Continue reading
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Tagged archival records, archives, art, inspiration, technology, tool, visual thinking
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A tool I want
For some time now an idea has been simmering in the back of my mind. It comes from a gap I’ve noticed in the flourishing world of online tools. What I’d like is to be able to assemble data – … Continue reading
How Web 2.0 will change history
As an editor of archival websites, I’m interested in the tools available for historical publishing, research and interpretation. And the advent of Web 2.0 means that such tools are proliferating and becoming easier and more fun to use. Social software … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, diagram, paper, social history, technology
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