links for 2008-04-29

• Random Etc. – Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About
  (tags: infoviz visualization blog design data)

links for 2008-04-27

• 45 Best Freeware Design Programs
  I have smashed 45 Freeware Design Programs among literally thousands and thousands. It was a great quest, and it was worth it.
  (tags: Freeware design software programs graphics)
• 85+ Free Killer Resources Every Designer Should Know
  (tags: design resources graphics free)

links for 2008-04-23

• BAVC PR: April 2008
  Nine documentary teams have been chosen to prototype innovative interactive, mobile, multimedia, and game projects to engage and build audiences for their social issue storytelling during the 2008 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies taking plac
  (tags: documentary interactive AlternateReality)

links for 2008-04-22

• Sincerely Ours from Stream – the online magazine for filmmakers.
  We have a deal with Amiestreet.com, a music site. They came on as a partner fairly early on, because the community we’re trying to reach is the same as the community they’re trying to reach.
  (tags: self-distribution)
• Sports films thrive on Internet – Entertainment News, Anne Thompson, Media – Variety
  Gannon and Sarner went straight to DVD via Amazon’s online self-distributor CreateSpace in Nov., 2006,, launching a hectic and intense marketing effort out of their living rooms.
  (tags: dvd self-distribution)

links for 2008-04-18

• Wired 12.09: Scientific Method Man
  By night, as an intellectual exercise, he has been researching one of the world’s great oddities: the Voynich manuscript, a hand-lettered book written in an unknown code that has frustrated cryptographers since its discovery in an Italian villa in 1912.
  (tags: voynich)
• http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/
  Database of Archival Collections and Manuscripts
  (tags: library books images reference archive)

links for 2008-04-17

• The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Peter Greenaway’s Mediatic Journey through History by Heidi Peeters
  The Tulse Luper Suitcases is Peter Greenaway’s most recent work, [1] but, at the same time, it is still very much in progress, ever under construction, ever expanding to new domains and new corners of media.
  (tags: peter-greenaway tulse-luper alternatereality ARG)

links for 2008-04-15

• Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Conclusion: Interdisciplinarity is Dead
  Where I teach, the keyword has been interdisciplinarity, but it’s only lip service that often devolves into clumsy, politically fraught, contentious projects that maybe get completed..after a few years.
  (tags: education interdisciplinary JulianBleecker)

links for 2008-04-13

• Giant Mice » Alternate Reality Gaming – A Quickstart Guide
  So, you’ve discovered the world of Alternate Reality Gaming and are completely confused by it all. You are not alone! Hopefully this little guide will answer a few of your basic questions and direct you to places to learn more.
  (tags: ARG howto gaming)
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 PDF Tricks
  Hit the jump for our top 10 list of techniques for converting, exchanging, sharing, managing and editing PDF documents.
  (tags: pdf tips lifehacker)

links for 2008-04-10

• Net: Storyboards As A Business Plan
  Since most businesses are like a developing story – wouldn’t it be easier to use the storyboard as an example of visualizing you business plan?
  (tags: presentations powerpoint business-planning)

links for 2008-04-07

• Feynman’s Talk
  What I want to talk about is the problem of manipulating and controlling things on a small scale.
  (tags: fenyman physics nanotechnology)