Jim England Inc.

Visualizing Information: Nixon Approval Ratings Through Watergate

This semester, I am enrolled in Visualizing Information, my first Cleveland Institute of Art course.  For our second project we were tasked with visually displaying a timeline of events that told a story.  What better than Watergate and the intriguing downfall of the thirty-seventh President of the United States?

I overlayed significant events of the Watergate scandal to the Gallop national approval ratings with JQuery and a plug-in called ToolTip.  Check it out.
http://jimenglandweb.com/projects/impeachment/nixon.html

There is also a page for President Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, but the data did not show much of a story because public opinion did not rise or fall significantly.

It begins…

Well, I suppose that all good things must come to an end.

It seems that Facebook profiles are becoming exploited in order to post spam on the walls and in the inboxes of their friends.

Obnoxious spam was a main reason why users left in droves from MySpace to Facebook. While I doubt this spam will significantly affect Facebook (where else would users turn to?), it does put a damper on all the advances Facebook has been making in the past year.

CorkShare

Well, Startup Weekend is over and done with, but that doesn’t mean our startup project has ended.

Introducing:

CorkShare will be a visual way to share your favorite web content online.  More details will be coming soon, but our poker hand will be close to the vest for the next couple of months.  Stay tuned.

SWC Project: CorkShare

So we are here in Columbus, and Startup Weekend has begun! For the next three days, we will be working at TechColumbus literally starting a company from the ground up. We pitched an idea for CorkShare, an online cork board and virtual space for sharing media and info with your friends. After two rounds of voting, CorkShare had enough support to squeeze into the development phase. This is what we are thinking:

A user has a web page that serves as their cork board. The creator can post anything from links, to videos, to photos, to notes, and these objects get pinned up onto the board.

The key thing that makes this special is the ability to share your board with your friends or colleagues. Not only can they view it, but if you allow them, they can change what is on the board as well! That means that you can create a community board for your circle of friends or your circle of co-workers, and they can post up the stuff they like and take down the stuff they don’t.

Eventually, we’d like there to be widgets that you can pin up on your board. They could be photo album viewers, RSS feeds, twitter updates, weather, etc. CorkShare is essentially a visual, online dashboard that you and your friends can see, edit, and experience together.

We are super excited about this, and are finding many more possibilities as we delve into the development. Stay tuned for updates all weekend long!