http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/05/01/awash-in-information-time-for-a-bit-more/ Welcome to Techlife, where the crossroads of Technology and Life intersect. The syndicated print column is published exclusively from this blog, a form of Digital Ethnography. Comments may appear in print. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:02:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/05/01/awash-in-information-time-for-a-bit-more/comment-page-1/#comment-20441 Techlife » Life Poster 2.0 - SeaDragon: The Global Photo Collage on Techlife TV Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:21:29 +0000 http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/05/01/awash-in-information-time-for-a-bit-more/#comment-20441 [...] Blaise presents the fact that our current interactions with visual data is very limited. He feels the future of data will allow quicker navigation and more complete views. I like the way he shows off an entire Charles Dicken’s novel and is easily able to zoom into a single letter from the whole book. This type of data interaction is clearly what Professor Wesch meant with Digital Ethnography. But clearly the demo’s pinnacle is the Notre Dame Cathedral shown from any angle using only images from Flickr. [...] [...] Blaise presents the fact that our current interactions with visual data is very limited. He feels the future of data will allow quicker navigation and more complete views. I like the way he shows off an entire Charles Dicken’s novel and is easily able to zoom into a single letter from the whole book. This type of data interaction is clearly what Professor Wesch meant with Digital Ethnography. But clearly the demo’s pinnacle is the Notre Dame Cathedral shown from any angle using only images from Flickr. [...]

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