About Flash Cookies: the SharedObject class (0)
9/21/10 •
A recent New York Times article by Tanzina Vega (a former student of mine at CUNY) reported about the growing concern over so-called “Flash cookies”, code from Adobe Flash sites that can store and track user data. At the heart of the matter is how Flash cookies are independent of the “normal” HTML cookies that [...]
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Flash CS5 Professional Advanced Visual QuickPro Guide Resources (0)
8/13/10 •
Source Files Download the FLA source files for the tasks in the book, along with sample movies, images, and audio files. Study how they were put together, explore the ActionScript code, and use them as launching off points for your own experiments. Companion site with source file downloads Adobe Home Adobe’s corporate site features software [...]
Mapping Properties is a Core Interactive Principle (0)
4/15/10 •
One of the most important concepts in interactivity is the idea of mapping, or translating, the property of one object to the property of another. Nearly all interfaces are based on this principle: In scrollbars, the vertical position (y-property) of a slider maps directly to the vertical position (y-property) of a block of text. In [...]
The Data Visual: A New Blog (0)
10/28/09 •
I recently gave a talk, which is now up at The Data Visual. The Data Visual is a new blog from the Spatial Information Design Lab at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture. Its purpose is to document the way data is structured and visualized in contemporary society. The Lab itself has spearheaded a cross-disciplinary [...]
Story Analyzer and Visualizer (0)
9/20/09 •
In journalism, visualizing data often makes good stories. I wondered how stories themselves could provide data for visualizations. You often hear of ideal graphs of story structure; of the classic three-part story made up of the introduction to the conflict, the climax, and the resolution. This structure would be represented by a slow-rising hill ending [...]
