The Red Arrow Project by Jennifer Fisher and Christian Cerrito uses floating 4′x4′ kites to remind viewers to stop, explore and engage with their surroundings.

In a move that aims to better recreate the experience of browsing through a print publication, Google Labs has introduced a new tool named Fast Flip.

Grant McCracken wrote a salient blog post recently that discusses the difficulties of keeping up with all the information there is to keep up with. He voices the need for better “knowledge architecture” – new services that can discover, aggregate, filter and organize information in ways that are relevant, and make sense for individual users.
Grant talks about this need for better knowledge design:
The upshot of this conversation for me was that a market in the information space is emerging.  I won’t pay anything for access to the New York Times.  This is an interesting aggregator, but it’s way too chunky [...]

Social media expert Chris Brogan shares an interesting observation – he noticed that USA Today looks kind of like an offline version of a micro-blog. He marveled at the paper’s ability to scale down to essential, quick data points, and says he’s been motivated to possibly re-design his site based on USA Today’s example. It may seem odd getting new ideas from such an “archaic” thing such as a newspaper, but it goes to show – you never know where inspiration will strike.
Brogan explains:
If you squint, and remove your “purist” filter, USAToday looks like a microblog. The paper has little [...]