Someone is going to make a gajillion dollars with these. I love how these are offered as some sort of no-compromise alternative for busy people. Like you're so busy you can't put on real pants. The new face of America: These, some crocs, and a Tub sized slurpee.
I presented this first at the Berlin School in August 2009, so it was time for an update. Specifically, I have added a few more examples (Quirky, Local Motors, Stocktwits and ZocDoc) and an update on our Mass Collaboration projects at Mutopo. The SOUR video is missing form the deck, but you can see it here.
I presented this first at the Berlin School in August 2009, so it was time for an update. Specifically, I have added a few more examples (Quirky, Local Motors, Stocktwits and ZocDoc) and an update on our Mass Collaboration projects at Mutopo. The SOUR video is missing form the deck, but you can see it here.
January 11, 2010 - Formerly the frontman of the jazzy experimental rock band Soul Coughing, singer-songwriter and guitarist Mike Doughty cut his first solo record, Skittish, while that group was still together. Soul Coughing disbanded in 2000, but Doughty's 2005 album Haughty Melodic spawned his hit "Looking at the World Through the Bottom of a Well."
We have some news, people. Dave Winer will be named a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for 2010. He will assist the Studio 20 program, which I direct, as Technical Adviser. During the academic year Dave will also curate a speakers series at NYU on the intersection of technology and journalism, which of course is the running theme of our Rebooting the News podcast.
Crowds Machine helps you find the items that would interest you amongst all the blogs, websites, Twitter streams and so on that you read.
You might think of it as your own Digg or Reddit, that includes only users that you pick.
Here's how it works: Sign in with your
account to create your first crowd. Then, populate this crowd with sites that you read
(an easy way to start is to upload an
OPML of all your Google Reader feeds).
Add as many sites as you like - the more the better, as long as these are sites you're interested in.
Crowds Machine will then monitor these sources every day for recurring links.
When it finds links that appears in more than one site, it will add them to the "Current Items" list.
Snap! Photography and the Culture of Instant GratificationTesting Content ConceptsTesting Your Own Designs ReduxBeyond Anecdotes: HCI 2009 Tutorial ReviewCameras, Music, and Mattresses: Designing Query Disambiguation Solutions for the Real WorldNeeds + Resources + Location + Schedule + Budget = ScopeUsability Testing with Time Constraints | Remote Usability TestingOptimization: Applying Moore’s Law to User ExperienceUXnews
I'm still watching sites like The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Serious Eats, Gawker, Techcrunch and a slew of others. They've really pioneered a modern publishing model that can provide a bunch of best practices for all of us interested in what comes next.
We recently received issue number one of Fire & Knives, a new print quarterly of "new writing about food" out of the UK. In their own words: "We give established writers a place for work that would not be published elsewhere; new writers a place to show themselves and experts in other fields an opportunity to write about our favourite subject." It's a rather handsome and inspiring publication, lovingly-designed, all in a format (smaller, thicker stock than your typical magazine) that eschews the glossy.
We recently received issue number one of Fire & Knives, a new print quarterly of "new writing about food" out of the UK. In their own words: "We give established writers a place for work that would not be published elsewhere; new writers a place to show themselves and experts in other fields an opportunity to write about our favourite subject." It's a rather handsome and inspiring publication, lovingly-designed, all in a format (smaller, thicker stock than your typical magazine) that eschews the glossy.
Posterous group blogs make it easy for lots of people to all post and collaborate because all it takes is an email address -- no Posterous account is needed for people to participate and get right into it. Now we've brought that power to Facebook, Twitter, and wherever else you and your group have an audience.
