Links for 2008-04-22

In Links on 22 April 2008 with no comments

• GameCamp | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  Wish I could attend this unconference on games and play. Tickets go on sale today. Guess I’ll just keep an eye out for the online fallout.
  (tags: gamecamp conferences london games play)
• cityofsound: The Personal Well-Tempered Environment
  Dan Hill on applying social software and infoviz to tackle sustainability in the home. I like this for the way it uses different sketching techniques to visualise the design. The gaming dimension could use some more attention w.r.t. player motivations.
  (tags: informationdesign sustainability architecture socialsoftware interactiondesign danhill)
• Bug Labs
  “BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function.”
  (tags: modular customization physical tangible computing prototyping)
• Waterhog
  Perhaps I should install one of these on my balcony when I move back to NL.
  (tags: water rain sustainability modular)
• Virtual Water – a double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations
  Very pretty and insightful poster on how much water is used up to produce all kinds of stuff.
  (tags: water informationdesign posters graphicdesign sustainability)
• LA Observed: LAT editors are back from retreat
  I like the fact that the output of a retreat at which LA Times editors tried to figure out how to deal with the future of news is not just a written memo, but also a poster that was apparently sketched live by a ‘graphic facilitator’. Via the AP blog.
  (tags: sketching posters visualization future news)
• German secret service taps phones, bills buggees | The Register
  Bookmarking for reference w.r.t. my The Web and Beyond 2008 talk. Amusing and at the same time scary anecdote about mobile phone surveillance by German secret service (apparently this is going on at a large scale in NL too).
  (tags: mobile surveillance privacy security)

Related posts:

1. A Game Developers Conference 2008 Postmortem