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I’m excited to announce the start of a new kind of project for Stamen, working with the geolocation experts at Quova to explore the opportunities for visualization of their truly ginormous dataset — geographic information on all of the IP addresses on the internet. What’s new here, for us, is that we’ve agreed to publicly blog about...

One of these days I’ll get around to updating the maps section of our site, ’cause things’ve changed since theCalifornia Stimulus Map (although I still think the Robert Louis Stevenson quote is pretty good, it’s basically 1/2 of our whole business plan). In the meantime I wanted to share a few things that Mike Bostock,...

Mike & Sha just left the studio for LA, where they’re putting the finishing touches on a twitter visualization for use during MTV’s Hope for Haiti telethon tomorrow. More on this as it progresses, but I’m very excited about this one. We’re going to be visualizing live activity around the world during the telethon, similar...

I’m in Boston today with Deborah, Tom & Ben, where the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight News Challenge, has just announced that Stamen is one of the winners of this year’s Knight News Challenge grant. The grant is funding the development of City Tracking, which will present digital...

We paid a visit to the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles this past weekend, where Eric, Sha and I spent the weekend producing and supporting an on-line/on-air visualization of live Twitter traffic about the stars and movies featured in the show. This was the most recent high-profile use of our recently-launched Eddy platform, and...

We’ve been working with our friends at CNN for almost a year on a project that is live as of today, a mapping of coalition casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan called Home and Away and live on CNN.com. The project is a sobering look at the human cost of two wars in the Middle East,...

So that, among a large number of other things, I can spend more time blogging and thinking and creative directing, we’re hiring an Executive Producer for Stamen: It’s time for us to bring on a full time Executive Producer to reduce the silence in the studio. Our growing field of opportunities and active projects means...

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”)...

So from time to time I kick myself for not being as disciplined as, say Matt Webb, who seems to be able to effortlessly kick out a weekly digest of his studio’s activities. It’s important, I tell myself. It’s a great way to get your ideas out there, I say, with some guilt. Writing things...

One of the great things about being involved with projects like twitter visualizations of the Olympics is being able to look back at an event that basically the whole world is paying attention to, and seeing the way that attention was focused at events that make their way into culture and our collective memory. Sunday’s...