Helvetica, the movie

Posted 08/03/2007 by jaimes

“Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.”

http://www.helveticafilm.com/about.html

What is epic?

Posted 08/03/2007 by jaimes

http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

Boundless: Community Wireless in Deptford

Posted 01/03/2007 by jaimes

Boundless is a community mesh wireless network in Deptford, S.E. London.

http://boundless.coop/?go=home

I have recently seen proposals for similiar projects on the same model in Hackney.

http://www.spacemedia.org.uk/Pages/BoundlessHackney.html

Here is an O’Reilly article explaining mesh networks and their possibilities for the developing world (including Deptford and Hackney!)

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2004/01/22/wirelessmesh.html

Microformats

Posted 01/03/2007 by jaimes

Microformats are community developed human readable conventions for embedding semantic information in HTML. Essentially this is a movement to combine human readable formats with machine readability, thus enabling all sorts of relatable goodness, without losing the flexibility that made Web 1.0 such a success.

http://microformats.org/about/

Particular ones I have been looking at are ways of combining RSS and SMIL to get standards based multimedia playback:

http://microformats.org/wiki/media-metadata-examples

A good, easily readable summary of what this is about is at:

http://theryanking.com/blog/archives/2005/04/07/an-evolutionary-revolution/