17th
February
2004
“Put yourself in the place of the reader: Step away from your reporting and research, before you undertake the writing or editing (this is important), and ask: ‘If I were a reader, what about this story would I like to be shown, rather than told in text?’ Sometimes it will be a photo or illustration, but often it will be a simpler, text-only pullout, with at-a-glance information that may draw the reader into your subject the way the inverted pyramid might not.”
posted in Journalism | Permalink |
17th
February
2004
“Richard Carpenter is mapping every mile of America’s railroad system as of 1946. By hand. ‘It’s a story,’ he says, ‘that needs to be told.’ …What Dick Carpenter has engineered is A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 , an encyclopedic work that is as audacious as it is artful. Carpenter aims to draw every mile of railroad track that existed in the United States in 1946. Volume one, published last summer, covers six mid-Atlantic states and more than 23,570 miles of active track. All of which raises a small question and a big one: Why 1946? And why at all?”
posted in Mapping | Permalink |
17th
February
2004
“I spend a lot of time helping clients conduct task analysis to form mental-model diagrams. When teams first start analyzing the interview transcripts theyíve collected, they often run into a confidence issue. ‘How will we know if we get the task groups right?’ This question usually arises because the team doesnít have the kind of details it needs to identify clear tasks.”
posted in Information architecture | Permalink |
17th
February
2004
“Weblog visualisation uses spatial metaphors like that of the world map or the underground lines of a city. Something so apparently unlinked to localisation requires it in order to establish a reference(?)… Weblog visualisation deserves a certain amount of attention since it presents some specific features. An interesting aspect of this type of visualisation is that of the city bloggers (blog creators that live in a city), that are grouped in the visualisation according to the underground stations of their city.”
posted in Weblogs | Permalink |
