March 2009
1 post
Yes, We Plan: How Altruism and Advertising Could... →
February 2009
1 post
Comprehensive excoriation of ebook stupidity -... →
Croy’s explanation of the Ars article is dead-on:
“Ars Technica’s John Siracusa, a veteran of early ebook startup Peanut Press, does a fabulous job of cutting through the fuzzy thinking, excuse-making, bad history and missed opportunities of the past decade’s worth of ebook ventures. This is a must-read essay for anyone thinking about the future of books and reading....
January 2009
11 posts
Create your own social issue game with nonprofit's... →
Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That... →
What will you miss about newspapers? - Boing Boing →
DIYcity - Boing Boing →
This is basically Age of Participation.
Hands on: Storytlr lifestreaming tells your story... →
National Endowment for the Arts Report Finds... →
Five Things Google Could Do For Newspapers |... →
Total Immersion’s Augment Reality at CES: Coolest... →
"Citizen videos" spread online showing BART police... →
It’s hard to beat the summary presented on BoingBoing, but in short: a BART officer apparently executed a man on New Year’s, and was videoed doing so from multiple angles by onlookers (along with photographs as well). When officers attempted to confiscate at least one of the recordings, they failed. As a result, all of these videos are now online, circulating.
The news isn’t...
Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds launch... →
Dead Trees: Times Finally Runs Display Advertising... →
December 2008
3 posts
Brain Smarter Than We Are: Scientific American... →
Along the lines of Blink, this talks about the advances in understanding how humans make ‘educated’ decisions.
"Inaugural" Video Game Puts Players in Obama's... →
Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed:... →
Clearly connected to his new book, “Outliers”, Gladwell’s article talks about how to identify someone who is likely to succeed, and how that isn’t as intuitive (ironically) as we might think.
November 2008
7 posts
Drop.io file sharing service redesigns, gets more... →
Study shows messiness leads to behavior decline -... →
Americans don't know civics - USATODAY.com →
Second wind for muni WiFi? Mesh-networking startup... →
Camcorders: Flip Cam Gets a Hi-Def Upgrade With... →
Spot.Us Launches Crowd-Funded Journalism Project |... →
Wired is covering the News Challenge winner Spot.Us and its launch of crowd-sponsored journalism.
Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying... →
October 2008
18 posts
Main Page - Ballotpedia →
Ballotpedia brings together information on the various ballots around the country, enabling a quicker, easier understanding of the questions you face as you approach election day.
GeoCommons Maker! →
Maker is a tool to create map-based mash-ups of data. The website includes plenty of examples, e.g. overlaying the prevalence of cyclists in less obese states.
High Earth Orbit →
A blog by Andrew Turning, a “neogeographer” working on projects related to the “geospatial” web, i.e. connecting the web with physical space.
PopTech: What Facebook and Steroid Use Have in... →
CSC Study Identifies Emerging Wave of Disruptive... →
Project Management: Co-op Helps Small Groups Stay... →
Portable Audio: Improv Everywhere Creates Epic... →
Disney got it right: the world should be magical. There’s a sophisticated feedback loop between us and our surroundings, such that we conform to the spaces we fit into. By making our world more magical and whimsical, we interject that attitude into our lives as a whole.
Traditional Media Won't Die -- For Another Five... →
E-paper: Samsung Demos Carbon Nanotube-Based Color... →
E-paper Displays: KDDI Develops Color, Wireless,... →
e-ink is the future of print, period. It’s not a question of if, but when: when will e-ink displays be cheap and versitile enough to convince consumers to just keep an e-ink display with them (i.e. a personal viewer) or to buy a new one periodically (e.g. a ‘magazine viewer’ you buy at the airport, load with a dozen magazines, and return or toss later).
What's Next After Web 2.0? Here's What You Told... →
Augmented Reality Makes Commercial Headway:... →
Print Is Dead: Newspaper Savior Gives Up On... →
Free WiFi? That's So 22nd Century | Epicenter from... →
Miller-McCune | Article | Lose Your Job, Lose... →
Nate Silver: Baseball Stat Geek Knows Exactly How... →
Traces of Hope →
One area that Knight has considered for years for development is video games: how can philanthropic groups tap into the use of video games in order to spread civic engagement, education, etc.? Here, the British Red Cross has released a game that aims to educate players about the humanitarian crisis in Northern Uganda.
Field of Light : Nikolai Tesla Meets Lenny Kravitz →
The world should be magical. Aesthetics are important.
September 2008
12 posts
Google Moderator →
A new tool by Google Labs, this lets you quickly set up a poll in a meeting with nothing more than the email addresses of those in attendance.
Of course, everyone need have a google-compatible device, e.g. laptop or iphone, but that’s hardly a limitation anymore.
Politics: Obama or McCain - Who's Leading In Xbox... →
If the Xbox Live survey has a larger sample size than Gallup by such a significant amount, is it more valid? Or is the XBox Live userbase too skewed?
Review: Political Machine 2008 Makes Politics Fun,... →
This is the full version of the game linked below.
Free Game Lets You Run Your Own Obama, McCain... →
What's next for Android now that the Dream is a... →
Advertising: Cities Will Only Survive If... →
There are roughly three ways to think of public space: (1) it should be unadorned, but beautiful, (2) it may be adorned, but only by limited commercial speech, or (3) Blade Runner.
In Michigan, and some other places, it seems we’re moving towards number 3.
For pure capitalists like myself, this is just the market adjusting. If people find they don’t like the aesthetic cost of this...
Ideablob FAQs - Ideablob: where ideas grow →
Amazon.com: True Enough: Learning to Live in a... →
When Stephen Colbert re-coined Truthiness, did any of us realize how vital it already was to the way society is running, much less how influential it would become?
We live in an increasingly anti-intellectual, anti-elitist world that perceives facts as subjective. “True Enough” is about living in this world.
Plastic Logic's Reader Is Thinner, Less Ugly Than... →
Is this the e-ink/e-paper device that breaks the $200 barrier?