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Historical Character in Dana Point Town Center
June 20, 2009
Dana Point Town Center Computer Rendering
Dana Point California has big plans to renovate its commercial town core. Several years of collaborative, public planning have been translated into a comprehensive plan by the urban design firm ROMA Design Group.
The plan has been finalized (click here to see the PDF file), approved by the City Council, and approved by the California Coastal Commission. The City of Dana Point’s Public Works department is in the process of planning the construction work on the streets and sidewalks and is gathering bids from contractors to do that work. (more…)
Information Pollution
June 16, 2009 — 1 Comment
Information Pollution is, as you can easily imagine, contamination of the core meaning of a piece of information with any form of distraction (like redundant, unsolicited, irrelevant, unclear or low-value pollutants).
Jakob Nielsen, the computer interface usability guru, popularized this concept beginning around 2003 (though the idea certainly had been floating around before
Photo credit: Jim Linwood, http://www.flickr.com/photos/brighton/
that), and designers, editors and communication professionals have been talking about it extensively since then.
Sometimes, Information Pollution takes the form of poor writing or obtuse messages. Today, though, let’s talk about Information Pollution in web interface design.
The Orange County Register Online
Specifically, consider the Orange County Register, the main newspaper of Orange County California. I love newspapers in general and have a particular affinity for my local papers. So, I have conflicting emotions about writing this blog.
Free Mobile Health Clinic South OC
June 10, 2009
iHOPE Orange Clounty, iHOPEoc.org
If you need medical attention and cannot afford it, or are lacking health insurance, come to the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in San Clemente on Wednesday June 17 between 5-8:30 pm.
If you know any homeless or working poor who need medical attention, please take a minute and pass along this information.
Even better, if you can, offer to drive someone there and back.
From the iHOPE organization’s website:
iHOPE is a grassroots organization dedicated to providing basic services to the homeless and working poor in South Orange County, with a mission to:
- Provide basic services without judgment to all homeless and working poor in the community.
- Alleviate unnecessary and unacceptable social conditions.
- Raise awareness in the community of our neighbors in need.
- Empower community advocates.
iHOPE sent out this information about the event:
If you can’t afford to see a doctor…
If you need health insurance…
Come to the:
Free Mobile Clinic
Wednesday, June 17, 5-8:30 p.m.
Where:
Saddleback Memorial Medical Center—San Clemente
654 Camino de los Mares, San Clemente
In the Parking Lot • First come, first served.
Services Available:
- Medical Care
- Referrals to insurance and clinics
- MSI applications (free adult health insurance)
- Mental Health Counselors and referrals
- Public Health Nursing consultation
- Health Education
Si tu no puedes pagar para ver un doctor….
Si necesitas aseguaranza de salud….
Ven a:
Clinica Mobil Gratis
Miercoles, Junio 17, 5-8:30 pm
En el estacionamiento de abajo de
Saddleback Memorial Medical Center—San Clemente
654 Camino de los Mares, San Clemente
Se atendera a las personas en el orden que vayan llegando
Los Servicios que se ofrecen son:
- Servicios de Medical
- Aseguranza MS I
- Informacion y referencias de los servicios sociales
- Consejeros de Salud Mental
- Consultas para el cuidado de salud publica
Contact info:
Interfaith Homeless Outreach Project for Empowerment
e-mail: info@iHOPEoc.org
TEL: 949.212.4420
FAX: 949.498.2331
iHOPEoc.org
Gee-Whiz Stuff 002
June 1, 2009
Things that made me go “sweeeeeeet!” this week:
Twitter Charts
http://www.xefer.com/twitter
Enter a Twitter username and this will map out a scatter chart indexing time of day and day of the week for that person’s twitter postings. It gives you a picture of exactly when a person tends to be using Twitter.
Twitter Charts
BioMapping
http://www.biomapping.net
Map emotional responses to architecture and environments. Volunteers wear a Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) device, which provides an indication of emotional arousal correlated to exact (GPS) geographical location.
Check out the various maps of cities around the world, each using a different visualization. Very cool. If only Donald Applegate had lived to see this stuff.
People re-explore their local area by walking the neighbourhood with the device and on their return a map is created which visualises points of high and low arousal. By interpreting and annotating this data, communal emotion maps are constructed that are packed full of personal observations which show the areas that people feel strongly about and truly visualise the social space of a community.
BioMapping.net
DoodleBuzz
http://www.doodlebuzz.com
Draw Your News. Enter a search term and start doodling like a 4 year old… let the casual pleasure of doodling influence the way you browse and explore news. Never underestimate the power of combining play and work; creativity and learning.
Doodle Buzz News Viewer
TagGalaxy http://taggalaxy.com
Enter a search term and this site will find all the photographs on Flickr with matching tags, then cluster similar or associated terms, rendering your main search as the biggest planet at the center of a galaxy and the associated terms show up as nearby planets.
Tag Galaxy, search term "Dana Point"
Move the planets around as you want, then click on any planet. It will gather all the photos from Flickr and paste them on the surface of the planet. Spin the planet to browse all the thumbnails. Click on any image to preview.
Tag Galaxy, preview of one picture on planet "Dana Point"
“Sweeeet.”