Here are the default life-events categories. Right now they’re just icons, but I thought they needed titles so I invented my own. Self-improvement: This timeline category is for bragging about how awesome you are. Adversity: This category is for things to include in your college application essays in order to demonstrate you’ve had a rough [...]
I’m sitting here testing out Facebook’s new timeline feature, and a couple things jump out at me: 1. For a platform that has, for years now, promoted a false sense of ephemerality in order (I’m assuming) to get us to share more, they are now actively trying to reinvent themselves as a personal narrative platform (think [...]
Here is my recent talk at the DIY Citizenship conference.
I’m really interested in this notion of “hacking contexts.” This seems aligned with what I’ve been thinking about as ‘ritual design’ (in contrast to platform design). It feels like an area that’s calling out for a more clearly defined methodological tool kit, so I’m excited by Grenzfurthner’s explanation of his approach. And I love his [...]
Elephant in the Relationship from Joshua McVeigh-Schultz on Vimeo. A game that I’ve been working on with Andy Uehara, Michael Annetta, and Casey China was just accepted to the Game Show NYC exhibition. We’ve been working on this concept for over a year now and are thrilled to have a chance to show it off.
Here’s the talk I mentioned in my last post. I couldn’t find Wesch’s talk from OVC online yet, but this seems to be the same material at TEDx.
Lindsay Grant recently posted a provocative argument about the purpose of redesign over at the HASTAC blog. In work for the Beyond Current Horizons project, Gunther Kress argues that contemporary conditions call not so much for taking a critical stance towards media, but an approach of re-design. Rather than analysing and deconstructing media artefacts, re-design [...]
This semester I’m excited to be taking Henry Jenkins’s new Civic Media course at USC. As one of our first assignment, we’re reading a few of the recent white papers that focus on new directions in civic media. These included: The Center for Social Media’s Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics, The Knight Commission’s, Informing Communities: [...]
Just saw this nice summary of the event over at HASTAC. The Mobile Design Boost is a hosting a 4-day entrepreneurial design workshop. Looks like its part of a partnership between Startl and IDEO. Nancy Kimberly explains.
Following up on NPR’s ear-stabbing economic coverage, here are some interesting comments from Brad Delong in response to David Weigel’s firing. I think they apply equally well to the kind of obligatory false balance that has become par for the course from NPR. [They] never wanted to be perceived as impartial in the sense of [...]