CogBlogged Tagged ‘travel’

I’m coming off of a fantastic closing session at the NMC Symposium by the Future by Ruben Puentedura on Of Maps, Systems, and Stories: Visualization for Sustainability (we are still processing the recorded audio but there is a gold mine in his slides). Ruben’s examples and ideas on visualization have me inspired to carve up some time and get down to learning to use processing. Until then, I went back to my RSS feeds in visual design/info-stuff-matics and within a post or 10, found a reference to Hipmunk, which provides a fresher, visual way of doing flight planning as opposed to the list views we see elsewhere: We make it faster and easier to find the flight you want. Most flight search sites haven’t changed in years. They have an intimidating search page and endless pages of flight results. Finding the right flight often takes all afternoon—or all week. At [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by ejhogbin Calendar data has always stumped me- on one hand it seems rather structured — something (data) happens on a date (data) maybe at a place (data) but it is something people much more savvy than I struggle with as it gets more complex… but I am not writing about the micro issues of micro data. In the last few years of many travel trips, I’d dabbled with two web based calendar services, which at some level are very similar– both dopplr and trip.it allow you to add events without the manual typing in of things to form– very elegantly by forwarding via email your airline, car rental, hotel reservations — that is oh so smart. For a while I was using both, but ran into some issues with dopplr accepting a second email sender address (I get travel stuff sent to both my [...]

I’m not even home yet from the CogDogBlog Asia tour and I am remotely buying tickets for a new adventure in November. A few weeks ago a friend sent me an email from someone he knew who needed someone to house sit and watch their dog for a month. Ahhh, not any house, but this one is the home of architect. Since the house has high speed internet, it is no problem for me to work from there. Ahhh, but not just any architect’s house…. this one is in…. Iceland! I’ll be somewhere out in the country an hour from Reykjavik with promised great views of the Northern Lights. It shall be a camera fest.

Going Where I Have Been by cogdogblog posted 3 Sep ’08, 12.36am MDT PST on flickr This is in the last hour of my 1700+ mile jaunt to Denver and back, a 6 day road trip with only loosely defined plans– mainly just to spend some time not glued to a laptop (ironically, I was glued to a steering wheel). There is so much that is magical about a road trip, especially to counter the aspects of living out of your car, but mainly the freedom of choosing directions, where to stop, where not to, what kind of horrible non nutritious food to ingest. My preferences is secondary highways, and only resort to the bland interstate when time is short. As I rode along many familiar roads, I kept wondering what it would be like to see myself go by in years past; when I first drove west n I-40 [...]