backwards and forwards in time

The Gaurdian have created this super timeline about the Arab Spring - manipulating content forward and back as well as left to right - very nice work - made in flash dammit.

So many amazing clever google maps

Guess this was made by Thailand tourism for the Japanese market - thanks to Chrome i can at least make out what’s going on with the text - however the googlemaps functionality and look is very fine…

Find out who’s pumping out the most Greenhouse gasses in the USA care of the EPA.

The Carbon Calculator is an innovative online tool that informs about the potential contribution of any selected area in the world to climate change mitigation by providing initial estimates on the amount of carbon currently stored inside, as well as the amount of additional carbon that could be sequestered through restoration.

 California takes climate change info and makes it interact on this selection of google maps.

play with the population dataset on this 7billionactions.org site

Timeline controlled map - using scroll up/down feature - really cllever way to tell a story using google maps over time.

History in these streets - In the summer of 2011, the Bay Area Video Coalition’s Factory filmmaking program for teenagers partnered with the Mozilla Foundation and four Bay Area non-profit organizations to create web-native social-justice video projects. A web-native video is a story that can only be experienced fully on the Internet. It takes advantage of the Internet’s capacity for engagement and connectivity to create an experience that allows the viewer/user a heightened degree of control and interactivity.

These projects were made possible through Popcorn Maker, an open source tool by Mozilla. Popcorn Maker is a program that allows filmmakers with only a minimal grasp of HTML to integrate the limitless resources of the Internet into new film experiences. 

Created using popcorn js this guided tour around the RIT campus is a fine example of putting html 5 to good use…

Can’t think of where to go for food? WTF - just try this little google mashup…

open source timeline creator

The Knight News Innovation Lab has just announced the release of a new, free and open-source timeline tool developed by Zach Wise, a multimedia journalist and faculty member at Northwestern University (where the Knight Lab is a joint program of the journalism and computer science programs). You can check out the tool at KnightLabTimeline.com.

src: PBS medialab

TCM Summer Under the Stars

Summer Under the Stars is an annual event on Turner Classic Movies held throughout the month of August where the feature films of a different star are presented each day. Illustrator Michael Schwab created custom illustrations for each star. His illustrations served as the primary imagery and the secondary nav (the main nav is a dignified footer consisting of the dates of the month in Clarendon); clicking on the image leads to a full view of the schedule for the star and in-depth content including background, video clips and photos.

Get the full experience.

Orchestrating information - Philips obsessed with sound

DDB produced this clever flash site for Philips - explore the individuals that make up the Metrpole orchestra. You can also enter a competition where you could have the orchestra play your composition…