Over the past year the Movable Type team and community has gone from playing with FastCGI to recommending to everyone to use it. Why? Because running Movable Type under FastCGI can yield up to a 15x performance increase. And now,...

an architectural night time installation consisting of 8 large-scale projections around the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art in New York) museum & on its facades. the moving images explore the constant flow of life & energy in New York, & enlives the architecture with noctornal journeys of 5 city inhabitants: a bicycle messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man & an office worker, as they awaken in the evening & make their way into the city.

see also interactive facade & kinetic flow & spots berlin & bix facade.

[link: creativetime.org|via coolhunting.com]

a visualization of browsing statistics "shown as easily perceptible pictures" in a computer game metaphor. the behavior of German internet users during surfing is projected in a 3D-world. different topics (e.g. computers, politics, sex, sports, environment, economy) are described by the external appearance, behavior, & the sounds of an avatar. the stream of data creates a virtual population, which thus shows a mirror image of the Net society

for instance, in one scenario, avatars feel attracted by specific topic islands to which they belong & stay close to them, so that it is possible to recognize relative proportions of online activities.

see also packet garden.

[link: echtzeit.m05.de & aec.at|thnkx Michael]

I have had many questions from publisher who have noticed that the new competitive ads policy no longer specifically states that you cannot run other contextually targeted ads on the same page. This change was made as part of the...