Over the weekend we released, for MSNBC, an interactive hurricane tracker. And just in time, because Hurricane Gustav is apparently “bearing down on Louisiana like a shotgun full of wind and rain.”

(cut and pasted from a mail that Mike sent out this evening):

Stamen is proud to announce that Cabspotting, our project with San Francisco’s Exploratorium, Scott Snibbe andAmy Balkin, will be part of an upcoming show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The exhibition,Design and the Elastic Mind…

Stamen’s work for LOCOG is ready for prime time, and viewable at http://london2012.com/storymaps.

Stamen’s new work with awesome real estate powerhouse Trulia (who’re going gangbusters btw) is live, at http://snapshot.trulia.com. It’s an interactive map (of course!) showing photos of homes for sale, and lets you browse across several vectors: most expensive, least expensive, newest…

I’m doing an Ignite session tonight at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame. I’ve never done an Ignite before: the idea is you have 20 slides and 20 slides only, and they auto-advance every 15 seconds, and 15 seconds only…

Following on the heels of my illustrious colleagues, I’ve put up my slides from the Ignite session I did on Monday.

The slides are online here. It was an interesting format to try and get ideas across in; 5 minutes is not very long, and 15 seconds a…

I’m in Vancouver for the next few days at Web Directions North, where I’ll be talking about Information Visualization as a Medium

Blurb:

“Information visualization is becoming more than a set of tools and technologies and techniques to understand large data…