Moving Blogs
In the midst of attempting to port over all my historical posts since 2005 from connectingthedots.typepad.com to here. Hopefully the move will be a success. If so, there should be posts … Continue reading
“Occupy” Wall Street
As with most recent scaled protests, Occupy Wall Street has a virtual presence. The simple wearethe99percent tumblr highlights and aggregates stories of individuals in the movement. Moving beyond story sharing, some … Continue reading
Digitally Mediated Snail Mail
A few months ago, I tried a snail mail to email experiment. It stemmed from a backyard bbq conversation on how with cell phone texts, email was becoming snail mail, … Continue reading
Websites Missing Steve Jobs
Huge corporate websites rarely feel human and emotional, nor aware of other corporations. Steve Jobs inspired the landing pages of Apple and Google to momentarily feel so. Google linking directly to … Continue reading
Digital Meets Physical Mashups: New Dawn of Sharing
After a long posting hiatus, semi-back. To paraphrase Bre Pattis, “You need to have more than one parent for your digital designs.” I was happily surprised when a series … Continue reading
Fabricating Ourselves
When 3D printing meets Kinect meets humans’ love for Polaroid portraits, we witness how Insta-selves could be a future common crowdpleaser. With custom software developed using openKinect and openFrameworks, Be Your Own Souvenir by … Continue reading
Paths Making Sounds
Walkers, subway riders, and drivers often listen to songs as the soundtrack to their journey. Wonder what it would sound like if my commute actually made music for me — … Continue reading
Pulse of the Nation and Hackability
Delayed hearting of this time lapse video of Twitter data visualizations. The dynamic “pulse of the nation” was generated from mood coding over 300 million tweets collected over three years, … Continue reading
Mashup Breakdown
Unlike some of my musical friends, I'm horrible at identifying specific samples from songs. At least for Girl Talk's All Day (372 song samples), I can look at Mashup Breakdown. … Continue reading
Tableau: Wanting Digital to Be Physical (and Rustically Hip)
Tableau is a nightstand that bridges the physical and digital. It drops photos it sees from its Twitter feed into its drawer for its owner. Similarly, images placed in its … Continue reading
