Contact forms are a terminally broken technology. Humans who fill them out have little faith that anyone will receive or answer them. As a result, they often don’t fill out the form and take to some other medium like Twitter or Instagram or TikTok or the current social flavor of the day. Or worse, they […]
Category Archives: Making Things
Loadband, an information design pattern for showing intensity of real world factors
This article is part of the Syndromic Surveillance and Covid-19 collection on Thoughtfaucet. While working on my “Estimating Future ER Load” information design I wanted a way to show how many cases of influenza-like illness an emergency department was capable of handling over a given time.
Napkin sketch: A news business model free from advertising
(Originally published in Sept 2015 but sadly still relevant.) We know that advertising in all its forms is cluttering and degrading our experience of the web. Great stories and bits of news are accompanied by six-packs of “26 gay celebrities, you’ll never believe #4!” and “Stop bellyfat with this great tip to end credit card debt!” […]
100 Days of Bass. Day One Hundred.
Here it is, last day of 100 Days of Bass. Hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as I’ve enjoyed making them! https://soundcloud.com/thoughtfaucet/100-100a?in=thoughtfaucet/sets/100daysofbass
100 Days of Bass/Day 99
One more day to go. Letting the Creston fretless sound like a fretless in today’s 100 Days of Bass entry. https://soundcloud.com/thoughtfaucet/100-099a?in=thoughtfaucet/sets/100daysofbass
100 Days of Bass: Day 98
A little more synthbass before 100 Days of Bass draws to a close. https://soundcloud.com/thoughtfaucet/100-098a?in=thoughtfaucet/sets/100daysofbass
100 Days of Bass: Day 97
Only three more days left in 100 Days of Bass. https://soundcloud.com/thoughtfaucet/100-097a?in=thoughtfaucet/sets/100daysofbass
100 Days of Bass: Day 96
Here’s the Glockenklang sounding clean for 100 days of bass. https://soundcloud.com/thoughtfaucet/100-096a?in=thoughtfaucet/sets/100daysofbass
100 Days of Bass: Day 95 with some bowed double bass
The 100 Days of Bass thing has eaten into my bowed bass practice time, as evidenced by this entry. But I figured I should put some in before we finish! https://soundcloud.com/thoughtfaucet/100-095a?in=thoughtfaucet/sets/100daysofbass
100 Days of Bass: Day 93
Gliding into the final week of 100 Days of Bass. https://soundcloud.com/thoughtfaucet/100-093a?in=thoughtfaucet/sets/100daysofbass