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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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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I recently walked about Frederick, MD with a friend of mine and below are the results:
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Some stuff I once had on SmugMug, now back online, but now on Flickr:
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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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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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