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Textual visualization

By slawrence • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Project Management, Systems, design, music

I am a huge fan of data visualization. Here is a nice overview of some interesting textual visualization techniques. Other than tag clouds this rather new to me. Personally, I find this literary organism maps rather aesthetically interesting.



RoR Project management tool

By slawrence • May 24th, 2008 • Category: Business, Project Management, Systems, Technology

Redmine http://www.redmine.org/



YouTube as instructional medium

By slawrence • Nov 27th, 2006 • Category: Business

It just occurred to me how easy it would be to convert any PowerPoint or other instructional material to video and upload it to YouTube. Any organization could then create channels for different training, presentation, or procedural materials and disperse them as they saw fit. I need to write this down.



Borders and Wishlists as gift registry

By slawrence • Nov 27th, 2006 • Category: Business, Operations, Optimization

For the life of me I can not understand why Borders doesn’t give customers the ability to access their amazon wishlist. You don’t even need to allow them to login, all you need to do is search for it. Not only could you look up other people’s wishlists for gift ideas but you [...]