The idea of an information hazard overlaps with the idea of a harmful trend or social contagion. In it, knowledge of certain trends can result in their replication, such as in the case of certain viral trends that can be physically dangerous to those who attempt them.

"this sellout manual serves only the lazy and small. Those who bestow sellouthood upon their former heroes are driven to do so by, first and foremost, the unshakable need to reduce. The average one of us - a taker-in of various and constant media, is absolutely overwhelmed - as he or she should be - with the sheer volume of artistic output in every conceivable medium given to the world every day - it is simply too much to begin to process or comprehend - and so we are forced to try to sort, to reduce. We designate, we label, we diminish, we create hierarchies and categories."

c'est brillament observé ;)

yahoo projects

kind of makes you wonder in a kind of nature vs. nurture way, are people wearing Scarface t-shirts more likely to commit a crime, or just more likely to get arrested?

"Today, I'll be tackling the longevity and diversity of pop songs, and a look at which decades had one-hit wonders."

Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server).

microformats as proteins, webistes as finite-state machines, abstraction modifier drugs, etc...

qu'est-ce qu'ils nous réservent les petits coquinous ?

"On the map, white dots represent individual blogs, sized according to number of links."

"If you liked Yahoo Pipes, you might be interested in Teqlo, a new “make your own mashups” tool that just entered preview mode."

they say "2007", but it's, so far, rather a map of 2006 trends

by IAJapan > the idea : back to interactivity. // interesting, it's not like an article about the PS4 ;)

lot of crabs

article about web design trends

This is where I try to sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages, and identify the distinctive features that make a web page look fresh, appealing and easy to use.

I'll update this article over time as new features stick out.