Saw a commercial for the Times Reader 2.0 on Hulu recently. Anyone out there taking advantage of it? Looks really slick. Soon ePaper will be upon us in a big way.
Current Times Reader subscribers get free access to Times Reader 2.0—powered by Adobe AIR. Now available for Macintosh, PC and Linux users, and full of new enhancements, Times Reader 2.0 is a smarter, more intuitive way to experience and enjoy the world’s greatest journalism: The New York Times.
I’m all for things like this. It doesn’t appear you can purchase it separately, though. I’d look into it if I had a little more time.
Times Reader 2.0
flame war down here!
This post was written by Kim Rees, a partner at Periscopic an interactive design firm specializing in data visualization and information presentation. VisWeek has come and gone, but you can still get your fill by finding most of the papers online. I was able to attend most of the InfoVis and some of the TVCG tracks, and was really excited by much of the work. While many of the research was focused on trying to "do something better," there was one paper that presented a novel, new type of data visualization. GestaltLines (PDF) by Ulrik Brandes and Nick Bobo of the University of Konstanz used balance to visualize dyadic relationships. Even in its most basic form, a ‘Gestaltline’ shows type, extent, and time of the relationship. Color is left as a degree of freedom to encode other variables. Using a sparkline or multivariate glyph approach, a gestaltline can easily be placed within text as a dataword. The technique seems like a very intuitive way of viewing relationships….
i like how people with no idea claim they no what is right. Wind power is bad for the grid, its power is limited to about 10% of the countries power. They cost loads, and push the price way up. Also what happens if the wind dies down. Or its cloudy (for PV). The only way its being built now, is because of the government funding it. With out these funds they loose money. Nuclear is potentially dangerous, but it is so much more efficient than renewables, if its managed correctly.