Web Sites for Music Playlists and Baby Blogs
by Duncan
April 22, 2004
NY Times> Trixie is 8 months old, and though I’ve never met her, I know when she is asleep, how much formula she’s had today, and her lifetime diaper usage (going on 2,000). She’s also cute, but that’s beside the point. The Trixie Update (www.trixieupdate.com) brings baby blogs into the information-design era. The core of the site is Telemetry, a graphical system for tracking Trixie’s eating, sleeping and, er, digestive habits. It was created by Ben MacNeill, a designer and stay-at-home father, to automate the scraps of paper that littered his home as he tried to grasp his daughter’s routine, or lack thereof. read more>