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March 2008

markerbored

“We’re roommates. We make call-and-response baroque scenes on a dry erase board. They usually have nerdy characters from nerdy things in them. We’re Pat Barrett and Todd McArthur.” (Thanks Drawn!)

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Archived in Comics, Sketching & illustration, Visual thinking | Comments Off



Muxtape / keaggy

So… here’s my muxtape.

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at 8:44 am
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We heart it / Visual bookmark for everyone

Like ffffound (for the rest of us): “We Heart It is a social bookmarking tool for images and videos. We see many great images on blogs and websites around, and now you can put everything you saw and liked on the same page to look again whenever you want.” (Thanks Chris Glass!)

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Archived in Art & architecture, Graphic design, Movies & motion, Photography, Sketching & illustration, Typography, Web design & dev | Comments Off



The Social Life of Visual Media

Web page for Prof. Nancy Van House’s course at Berkeley: “This course brings together several approaches to visual media, with two goals: first, to use the resources of a variety of fields to understand (and perhaps anticipate) changes in the production and uses of personal photographic images (loosely defined); second, to examine the possibilities of multi-disciplinary approaches to new media and new technology. Our organizing topic will be personal photography, but that will be the springboard for discussions about new media and developing information technologies and ways of understanding them.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Archived in Photography, Visual thinking | Comments Off



The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs

“There is no way to accurately put a value on blogs and blogging companies. All are privately-held and, as is true with many content businesses, the value of the company is based on what a buyer will pay. The figures we have put together look at advertising revenue and income from related businesses like conferences. We have not included blogs affiliated with larger media companies.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at 8:37 am
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VizThink: Visual Thinking Workshops in NYC (5/2) and CHI (5/7)

“Are you a visual thinker? Do you want to hone your visual thinking skills? Do you want to learn from some of the best in our industry? Then the Visual Thinking Workshop is for you! VizThink is offering a series of one-day workshops all around the United States. These workshops will help you improve your visual thinking skills. The first workshop series will be run by Dave Gray and Karl Gude.

Apparently separated at birth, together they will show you how to visualize your ideas so you can think and communicate with greater clarity and effectiveness. Working individually and in small teams, you will learn and practice visualization techniques that have been successfully used to improve innovation and accelerate change at some of the world’s leading companies. After completing this workshop you will have a toolkit for thinking and presentation effectiveness — your presentations of complex information and strategies will never be the same.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Archived in Visual thinking, XPLANE news | Comments Off



RunMyProcess > On demand business integration and process management (BPM)

“RunMyProcess is a SaaS Web 2.0 integration platform which allow to automate, without any programming, the exchange between your internal information system, your partners or your software…”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Archived in Internet, Software & technology | Comments Off



Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism

“I have tremendous respect for Paul Graham. His essays– repackaged in the book Hackers and Painters– are among the best writing I’ve found on software engineering. Not all of them are so great, of course, but the majority are well worth your time. That’s more than I can say for 99.9-infinitely-repeating-percent of the content on the web. He’s certainly a better and more authoritative writer than I.

But lately I’ve begun to wonder whether Mr. Graham, like Joel Spolsky before him, has devolved into self-absorption and irrelevance. Consider his latest essay, You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss, which opens with this distasteful anecdote…”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 7:30 am
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Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload

“These days, it seems everyone has an opinion about how to deal with information overload, especially when it comes to email management. There are numerous methodologies, best practices, tips, and tutorials available, but are any of them really effective? Well explore that question as we delve into the top five email management methodologies.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 7:28 am
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Extensis Typecaster – Fonts find true love in this modern world.

“What;’s your true type? What type do you click best with — and which types spell doom? In five quick questions, we’ll decipher your identity.” (Thanks Design Observer!)

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 7:24 am
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Kronos video

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Check out this video we made for Kronos to help celebrate International Women's Day, 2011. Learn more in this xBlog post or jump over to YouTube and watch it there.

Azure poster

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XPLANE | Dachis Group developed a A vibrant, engaging poster showing how Microsoft Azure enables developers to run applications and store data on Microsoft servers. The poster recently took top honors in the American Business Awards.

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