Author: Christopher Fahey
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Olympic Special Effects as Information Design
I am not much of a sports fan, but I am always impressed with the information design on many TV sports broadcasts. I love the little icon in the corner of many baseball broadcasts that quickly sums up the current game status: score, inning, who’s up, who’s on base, etc. And of course, the virtual…
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Entrepreneur vs. Athlete
I am going to enter some bicycle races this year. I’m learning, however, that training to race can require a massive, life-altering level of commitment. Specifically, it requires huge amounts of time, time that a person like me might not realistically ever have. Is it possible for a business owner/entrepreneur to also be a competitive…
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History Revealed Through Cross-Referencing
There is a great new series on PBS called African American Lives, in which Henry Louis Gates, Jr. interviews nine high-profile African Americans (including Oprah Winfrey, Chris Tucker, and Quincy Jones) about their family histories. I’m enjoying both the historical aspects of it and the technological inspirations I get from it. Documents and photographs have…
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Google, Information Liberator?
It occurred to me that of all the different ways that Google makes money, none of them include charging us, the general public, for access to information. There is no “Google Premium”, no “walled gardens”, no subscription or pay-per-view service. All of their revenues come from selling inclusion within that information space, but not access…
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My New “Disk” Wheels
I bought a wind trainer about a year ago but I’ve never actually used it because I was always afraid my adventurous little cat Nike would stick her paw in my back wheel. When I noticed a neighbor was throwing out a large roll of carbon fiber, my mind clicked: Disk wheels! So this weekend…
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Déjà Vu
MoveOn has a new ad comparing Bush’s constitutional scandals with Nixon’s, and it contains one of the best morphs I’ve ever seen. Not technically the best, not even all that conceptually inventive, but somehow still it’s pretty amazing. I spent a few minutes trying to find juuuust the right frame at which the face seems…
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Inventing the Mouse
There’s something about 1950’s and 1960’s black and white video recordings that I find hypnotic and deeply compelling, particularly when they document important or interesting people and events. From the 1969 moon landing to the Eichmann trials, these videos mesmerize me. Every frame has an eerie, spectral glow, making faces and people a little bit…
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Hello World! !dlroW olleH
Today is Feb 1, 2006, my first day using my own blog. In addition to the traditional blog convention of posting in forward chronological order, I will also be posting older material going way back in time. Posts dated before today were in fact written on the dates they’re listed, but weren’t “blogged” until later.…
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About
Hi! I’m Christopher Fahey and I’m a user experience designer. I live in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York with my lovely wife Peggy (aka tinydiva) and two nearly-identical looking cats, Nike and Perseus. I was born and raised in Philadelphia and Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, where I built model castles, airplanes, and rockets, wrote my own…
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An Information Architect will be CEO
There is a post-Information Architecture career growth path emerging in the web industry, with people growing out of the job title “Information Architect” and becoming more powerful players in their companies and in the industry. They are growing into “Product Managers”, “Business Process Consultants”, “Holistic Designers”. Some even start their own companies, becoming “Entrepreneurs”. In…