Core 77 has written a review of “Art”, Rubi McGrory’s MFA thesis show. It combines some of my favorite things — critique of consumer culture and the analogization (it’s a word now!) of inherently digital things. Check it out.

via Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Video on TED.com.

Christoph Niemann has done a wonderful series of conceptual Google Maps on the NYTimes site. These are like a cartographic version of Jessica Hagy’s  Indexed.
 

May 11, 2010: Post updated with the video of my talk.

Dot Dot Dot “The Tablet”: Alexis Lloyd from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo.
I’ve gotten some great feedback on my talk last week at SVA’s DotDotDot lecture series on designing for the iPad, so I thought I would take the time to write down some of [...]

I can’t imagine a news site I’d want to use less.

My talk from Interaction ‘10 is up on Vimeo:

Alexis Lloyd - New Interactions with News from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.

People have been predicting that electronic books will become the primary literary format for quite a while now, but it’s only recently that the path to a predominantly e-book ecosystem has become clear. E-readers like the Kindle and devices like the iPad that are optimized for reading are still nascent technologies, but already we’re seeing [...]