Photo-sharing might be a good way to draft a photo essay--check this story out.

The Medium is the Massage inspired an issue of the multimedia magazine Aspen, an innovative publication from the 1960s.

Also at Aspen are four abstract films--relevant to the film assignment in this class.

This Fusionanomaly webpage has collected a number of cultural references to / appearances by McLuhan.

Joyce Chen at the University of Northern Iowa has remediated The Medium is the Massage with a set of web page excerpts from the book.

A book, website, and timeline relevant to visual culture and language: Technomanifestos.

I'm a little obsessed with InfoPorn right now--hope it doesn't get me fired.

I came across a piece of software called SmartDraw--I'll have to see if it helps me with timelines.

I got to Smart Draw from xplane.com--great information graphics, visual thinking company.

understanding visual culture requires a good understanding of oral, manuscript, and print cultures. Richard Clement's Books and Universities is a readable and informative history of the codex, its predecessors, and its development with the invention of the printing press. He makes the point that the codex was developed in the second century AD, and the invention of the printing press did not significantly change the codex, just the means of production.

He also explains how papyrus rolls and wax tablets existed alongside the codex, each having a specific role/function.

I've been searching for timelines, and came across a well developed collection by George Emery. He has been collecting since 1993. I haven't sampled very many yet, but am generally disappointed by the text-heavy nature of the ones I have seen. Where are the images?!

The website HyperHistorymakes execellent use of timelines--people and events placed on a timeline, with hyperlinks to a node of information, never leaving the main screen. Nice design!

The BBC has compiled timelines for British and Scottish history (others as well); a variety of approach to information graphics.