MetaFilter posts tagged with information and web

Google for Google's Sake

armoured-ant — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:55:14 -0800

Data Visualization on the Web

nthdegx — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:00:44 -0800

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches is a Smashing Magazine article examining a variety of increasingly popular or novel information visualization employed on modern websites.

Sparklinkes Web Service

signal — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:39 -0800

A Bright, Shiny Service: Sparklines A web service implementation of Edward Tufte’s sparklines idea, in Python.

Animating Wikipedia Histories

Tlogmer — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:45:51 -0800

Waxy's contest to design an interface for animating wikipedia histories has already borne fruit.

HIV/AIDS information portal in OK

sheauga — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 09:04:22 -0800

CHAIN: Oklahoma's Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Information Network. A prototype web portal, designed to provide one-stop access to AIDS information for a state with a lower HIV infection rate. Funded by the National Library of Medicine. The concept is that people in small towns or rural areas can access information and contacts without leaving home. Web designers and MetaFiltrans - does the concept work? Seen anything similar in your community?

adrianhon — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:36:10 -0800

"The Web, left to its own devices, would be the exact opposite of that: It's like a giant city with no neighborhoods; it needs these kind of meta-filters, these second-level kind of things, whether it is Yahoo or Google or Slashdot, to rein in that chaos and turn it to something more organized." From the second page of an interview with the author of Emergence, Steven Johnson (also co-founder of Feed).