Thanks to WebProNews and Abby Johnson, who shot this interview at Blog World Expo 2008 following my “Microjournalism” panel with Doc Searls and Robert Scoble

A picture tells… oh I’m a little too under the weather today to count up just how many words. We soft-launched the new website this weekend because of the New York Times Magazine article. When BusinessWeek, CNET and Web Worker Daily all included me today, the writing was on the wall to just announce the new venture…

We’ll be growing it all together right out here in public. I hope you’ll join us, and I hope you will find lots of value in what we have been building behind the scenes.

Warmly,
Pistachio

PS — Logo contest, anyone?… Continue reading

There’s a lot about Google’s overall UI/UX that bugs us, but this “comic” explaining the rollout of their new browser is really nicely done.

Mind you, it’s long. But even just sampling the first few pages I got a pretty convincing sense of what pains they’re solving and what Chrome does differently.

Play with storyboarding as a tool to flesh out your messages. Really great presentation decks have a lot in common with a storyboard. It’s a model and development tool to seriously consider…

There’s a WHOLE lot going on behind this here green curtain, and multiple announcements on the way in the next few weeks and months.

Sorry I’m not being very transparent about it at the moment. I promise all will be revealed, including this here blog in a whole new form that lets you choose whether you want to follow along on presentations stuff or on social media stuff as my work continues to shift going forward.

In the meanwhile, lavish thanks for your continued interest, and a promise to get back to more, and more consistent, content output in the near future…

Much love,
Pistachio…

Fascinated by the complexity captured in this map:

PresidentialWatch08 » Map

The circles represent political sites and blogs, color coded by category (political lean) and sized by authority (# of inbound links) or the magnitude of unrelated sites linking to it. This Map Key explains the methodology in detail.
The PresidentialWatch08 map is composed of the 533 most visible and influential websites and blogs - out of a complete dataset of over 4000 sites - using Linkfluence™’s proprietary crawl technology.

The map includes both social media and mainstream media outlets. The sites are divided into four different categories, or communities (manually labelled):

* Conservative
* Independent
* Infopit
* Progressive

Infopit are conversation starters, they can set the agenda. Most of them are mainstream media but a growing part is composed by social media.
Good information design should… Continue reading