Amsterdam Twestival 2009

Yesterday I had a great evening at the Amsterdam Holland Twestival 2009, meeting tweeple in real life, meeting new tweeple and party. The Twestival was being organised in 175+ cities across the world, all partying for a purpose for charity:water. The event was entirely organised by volunteers and a huge succes with over 200 visitors, probably much more. A lot of vistors were using their iPhones or Blackberry’s and twittering in public, making pictures which can be found on Mobypicture and Flickr. I tried to make some pics with my EEEpc but that only works with some light around.

One day later it’s interesting to find some messages and new followers on my Twitter accounts from tweeps I talked to in real life last night. I could use some more meetings like these. Let’s see what happens between the people who met last night and the new contacts.

Data Visualization I

Yesterday on the picnic 2008I ‘ve been watching a small lecture on the stream of Picnic of Aaron Koblin, he creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork. He started with a graphic of air traffic in America so the viewer could see when and where the most flights were taking place. Every flight was a thin white line and more flights meant a brighter and thicker line. Like between Washington and New York showed the most white and in the middle of the United States it stayed kind of dark. This visualization got my attention as at first It was unclear what this was about but the picture was strikingly beautiful, see for yourself;