Comments on: Backbars: How ambient visual data can make news sites user-friendly http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/backbars-how-ambient-visual-data-can-make-news-sites-user-friendly/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:09:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dynamic Diagrams : Information Design Watch : Your Data is my Distraction http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/backbars-how-ambient-visual-data-can-make-news-sites-user-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-91367 Dynamic Diagrams : Information Design Watch : Your Data is my Distraction Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:07:56 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=6400#comment-91367 [...] recently ran across a still-fresh 2009 Nieman Journalism Lab post on “ambient visual data” — a good term for the practice of graphically incorporating metadata into a content-delivery [...]

[...] recently ran across a still-fresh 2009 Nieman Journalism Lab post on “ambient visual data” — a good term for the practice of graphically incorporating metadata into a content-delivery [...]

]]> By: links for 2009-10-14 : The ChipCast || by Chip Mahaney http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/backbars-how-ambient-visual-data-can-make-news-sites-user-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-42881 links for 2009-10-14 : The ChipCast || by Chip Mahaney Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:10:46 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=6400#comment-42881 [...] Backbars: How ambient visual data can make news sites user-friendly » Nieman Journalism Lab (tags: socialmedia design news journalism visualization data) Category: Delicious [...]

[...] Backbars: How ambient visual data can make news sites user-friendly » Nieman Journalism Lab (tags: socialmedia design news journalism visualization data) Category: Delicious [...]

]]> By: Online News Design » Blog Archive » When does information turn into distraction on a news page? http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/backbars-how-ambient-visual-data-can-make-news-sites-user-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-29802 Online News Design » Blog Archive » When does information turn into distraction on a news page? Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:18:13 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=6400#comment-29802 [...] interesting, and one way of doing is to ‘add ambient visual data’ to the page says this Neiman Journalism Lab post, referring to the experiment of a designer to redo the layout of a page of The Economist [...]

[...] interesting, and one way of doing is to ‘add ambient visual data’ to the page says this Neiman Journalism Lab post, referring to the experiment of a designer to redo the layout of a page of The Economist [...]

]]> By: Ted Coltman http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/backbars-how-ambient-visual-data-can-make-news-sites-user-friendly/comment-page-1/#comment-28698 Ted Coltman Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:34:33 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=6400#comment-28698 The Digg example exhibits one of the possible pitfalls of the Backbars script (at least in its current form) -- the presence of thumbnail photos with some, but not all, of the headlines, means that the bars in the bar graph have different origins, which makes *visual* interpretation of the data very tricky. Other than those kinds of wrinkles, this seems very imaginative and useful. The Digg example exhibits one of the possible pitfalls of the Backbars script (at least in its current form) — the presence of thumbnail photos with some, but not all, of the headlines, means that the bars in the bar graph have different origins, which makes *visual* interpretation of the data very tricky. Other than those kinds of wrinkles, this seems very imaginative and useful.

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