The Sunlight Foundation, support by among others Ebay founder recently published this visual describing the history of public access to federal governmnet information. The graphic uses an interested segmented time line, which can be disorienting on first exposure. The inclusion of text highlighting technological advances is a helpful secondary level of information that aids in contextualizing the primary content.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
100 days press conference
Screenshot of new interactive feature from the New York Times of President Obama's 100 days news conference. This feature allows readers to search and browse the video and transcript. The inability to search and scan video text continues to limit, and this is step toward a more useful video system.
Online at
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/29/us/politics/200900429_OBAMA_100DAY.html
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Recovery.gov
The White House attempts here to communicate a series of ideas with this visual, embedded in an iframe here.
The most detailed graphic, represented in the still to the right, is titled “Transforming Federal Building Into High-Performance Green Building. In the middle of this graphic is a representation of a “High Performance Green Building.” The graphic suggest a flow from left to right that involves money. This left to right action is, of course, a priority in English language reading. The stack of bills on the left is labeled a federal distribution. Readers must infer the nature of this distribution. Presumably, it is for “transforming federal buildings.” Such an inference emerges from the title of the graphic and the names associated with the items surrounding the stack of bills. The money on the left then flows into the building, but also flows out to 6 additional sources. These other 6 sources are a mix of specific projects such as U. S. Courthouses and more general expenditures such as “Space Rental.” Flowing out of the “High Performance Green Building” are three items. A deep reading is required in order to understand the relationship between the centerpiece building and the three items on the right. The relationship is ultimately mathematical. The items on the right sum up the 4,274M cost of the “High Performance Green Building.” Essentially, this graphic functions as a blow up of a single project in the overall distribution of funds for federal government environmental building renovations.
The most detailed graphic, represented in the still to the right, is titled “Transforming Federal Building Into High-Performance Green Building. In the middle of this graphic is a representation of a “High Performance Green Building.” The graphic suggest a flow from left to right that involves money. This left to right action is, of course, a priority in English language reading. The stack of bills on the left is labeled a federal distribution. Readers must infer the nature of this distribution. Presumably, it is for “transforming federal buildings.” Such an inference emerges from the title of the graphic and the names associated with the items surrounding the stack of bills. The money on the left then flows into the building, but also flows out to 6 additional sources. These other 6 sources are a mix of specific projects such as U. S. Courthouses and more general expenditures such as “Space Rental.” Flowing out of the “High Performance Green Building” are three items. A deep reading is required in order to understand the relationship between the centerpiece building and the three items on the right. The relationship is ultimately mathematical. The items on the right sum up the 4,274M cost of the “High Performance Green Building.” Essentially, this graphic functions as a blow up of a single project in the overall distribution of funds for federal government environmental building renovations.
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