Thinky.org is the personal blog of Zach Pousman. I am a designer, researcher, and strategist at the intersection of people and technology. Here you'll find a collection of stuff from my travels around the internet. I like info graphics & visualizations, well-designed goods and services, effective advertising, and novel interaction techniques.
Nice new blog from an NYT graphics department reporter and data-journalist, Kevin Quealy. Lots of cool ‘behind the scenes’ work on how data gets into a graphic that gets onto nytimes.com or the paper version.
Local No. 12, a collective of some of the best minds in game-design and “play” generally, created Backchatter. It’s a way to turn the twitter stream of your conference or event into a game! Here’s the installation guide to start hosting rounds of the game on your own server! As an example, here’s where CHI [...]
How does your gender and age influence how gentle or rough you like your sex? How about whether being a vegetarian is tied to your desire (perhaps just willingness) to give oral sex to your partner? Inquiring minds now know.
A social media consultant transcribed 1000+ television advertisements and made a tag cloud of each of “boys” toys and “girls” toys. The results are clear if unsurprising.
Link: South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive
Link: Maker Profile of Reuben Margolin
Link: Tip jars: David Sedaris versus Beggars This is always very interesting to me. As a matter of course, I always try to help people out, and so, I have been known to give money to people who ask for a buck or two. But it’s interesting that DS just put out a tip jar [...]
