Transparency and Open Government have become buzzwords over the past few years that I fully support. President Obama’s Open Government Initiative has prompted many government organizations to begin releasing once private data. Today, thousands of records are being published on Data.gov and awesome projects are being built out of it by geeks around the world.
I like to think that this movement comes on the heels of the Creative Commons movement, which began in 2001. As a former information graphics designer, it’s awesome to see just how much has been added to The Commons on Flickr.
Here’s a really cool project by the New York Public Library Labs where you can transform historical stereographs from their collections into shareable animated GIFs: Stereogranimator.
You can create your own right now. Here are some I made:






















