Best Buy A Bust

August 8, 2009
By Mike
Best Buy A Bust

I visited our new Best Buy store, here in Martinsburg, WV.  It was a very sad and sick joke.  As a Mac user, I was hoping I’d be able to shop locally for my hardware needs, including accessories.  It was pretty clear walking out of there that they didn’t want my money. No Macs.  Just...
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The Chart Make-Over Challenge of 2009

August 2, 2009
By Mike
The Chart Make-Over Challenge of 2009

As I mentioned in a previous article, I attended the Open Government conference in DC.  If you followed my tweets that day, you might remember this one: If you have to tell the audience in the back that it’ll be hard to read your chart, you’ve got a poorly designed chart. #ogi#ppt Well, here is the slide...
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Shooting Up Frederick

July 31, 2009
By Mike

I recently walked about Frederick, MD with a friend of mine and below are the results:
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Miscellaneous Photos

July 31, 2009
By Mike

Some stuff I once had on SmugMug, now back online, but now on Flickr:
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Lose the Lectern

July 26, 2009
By Mike
Lose the Lectern

Last week, I attended the Open Government & Innovations Conference in DC where thousands, it seems, of feds got together to pretend they’re out-innovating the private sector in the use of Web 2.0 and social media and the implementation of transparency.  The keynotes and break-out sessions all suffered from the same problem: detachment from...
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The Power Of the Metaphor

July 14, 2009
By Mike

All too often, when people are trying to do the right thing by creating a strong visual to represent an idea, they fall back on the literal meaning of the word.  This often makes it very difficult to find the right image to convey the idea and will often result in a visual that...
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