About Thisandagain
Thisandagain is the online personal space of Andrew Sliwinski, a User Experience Strategist, Designer, and Technologist living and working near Detroit, MI.
Andrew works at o2 Creative Solutions in Royal Oak, Michigan with a group of incredibly talented and dangerously smart designers, artists, technologist, thinkers and iconoclasts.
With a strong focus and background in user experience design, Andrew's work has been recognized by a wide range of media and professional associations including the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), International Design Alliance (IDA/ICOGRADA) and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
Clients / Partners
Scion
Ghostly International
General Electric
Hyatt
Toyota
The Ritz-Carlton
Lexus
Volkswagen
JetBlue Airways
Mos Def
Ford Motor Company
Global Green USA
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Saatchi & Saatchi
JWT / Team Detroit
Wunderman / Team Detroit
TBWA/Chiat/Day
Media / Lectures & Exhibits
New York Times
CNN
New York Daily News
Make Magazine
Gizmodo
Smashing Magazine
Graphic Exchange
Design Radar
AisleOne
College for Creative Studies
Innovation Economy Conference
Gizmodo Gallery
This Edition
This edition of thisandagain is a basic framework for the consumption and output of data from various different sources. Besides the XHTML and CSS-based GUI (and this column of text), the content of this edition is completely managed in unique data "nodes"
that have been aggregated using a variety of techniques. These aggregation components most notably include the use of the Yahoo! Pipes development tool.
As shown in the above aggregation example, this technique enables all data from the "Thisandagain Network" to be consumed in a standardized XML format, parsed and inserted into a database which is locally held for quick processing and reliability. In addition, all image-based content is read, converted, manipulated and saved locally for similar reasons. As the network is updated, content is automatically processed by the aggregators and consumption procedures and shown on the site in the format you see here.
