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MIke and Shawn and I are at South by Southwest until Thursday, soaking in the sun and the barbecue and one panel after another. Mike’s put together a good list of tools to get in touch with him; I’m a little less organized this time. Luckily, so are the conference organizers; my talk (“Interactive Infographics”)...

Ben took our show on the road yesterday, speaking about live data visualization at the Webtrends Engage conference in New Orleans. I really like the format that the presentations were in: twice as wide as a normal slide deck and right behind the speakers, so Ben could stride the boards, point at interface elements, walk...

Dopplr co-founder, blogger and all-around smartie (as well as Stamen advisor and pal) Matt Jones has posted a talk he gave as part of Umeå Institute of Design’s Spring Summit 2009. It’s chock full of interesting material, includingsome Stamen projects, as well as the Archimedes Palimpsest, Kevin Kelly’s Quantified Self, data patinas, Bruce Sterling’s keyboard,...

We’re having what we hope will be the first of many semi-regular Friday happy hours at our studio tonight from 6 to 9; if you’d like to come, please RSVP here so we know how much Zubrowka to lay in.

I’ll be giving a talk with Kevin O’Malley of Tech Talk this Wednesday, November 12 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. It’s a new kind of venue for me — Kevin describes the Club as more downtown San Francisco than South Park — and I’m really looking forward to getting some of Stamen’s ideas out in front of...

Following on the heels of my illustrious colleagues, I’ve put up my slides from the Ignite session I did on Monday. The slides are online here. It was an interesting format to try and get ideas across in; 5 minutes is not very long, and 15 seconds a slide doesn’t give you much room to...

Where2.0, Tonight: I’m doing an Ignite session tonight at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame. I’ve never done an Ignite before: the idea is you have 20 slides and 20 slides only, and they auto-advance every 15 seconds, and 15 seconds only. Usually when I talk, I start warming up after the first 10 minutes,...

Well, the Web 2.0 Expo is here in San Francisco this week, extending its delightfully O’Reillyesque tentacles into every nook and cranny of town — including a takeover of South Park — epicenter of the first round of Internet hilarity back in the late ’90s. The town is full of nerds and marketing types alike, City Hall is all...

Tom and I are heading down to San Diego tomorrow for O’Reilly’s ETech. We’re both speaking, but on separate mornings: Tom’s running a workshop and I’m giving a brief morning keynote. Tom’s taken on the demanding task of doing a three hour(!) workshop and providing a comprehensive review of what we’ve been up to for...

I’m in Vancouver for the next few days at Web Directions North, where I’ll be talking about Information Visualization as a Medium Blurb: “Information visualization is becoming more than a set of tools and technologies and techniques to understand large data sets. It is emerging as a medium in its own right, with a wide...