As many of you know, April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, I have a brand new project coming down the pike: 30. The concept is simple: podcast 30 short original poems in 30 days. Some of them will, of course, be better than others, but my general hope is to use this as a […]
I’m wrting this while sitting on a futon in the middle of my girlfriend Laura‘s apartment. This sentence is not in and of itself worthy of a Joey Lawrence-style “Whoa!” until I tack on the detail that said apartment is in Ise, Japan. Say it with me: “Whoa!” I’m having a wonderful time, and recording […]
In response to the writer’s block post from yesterday, here’s a couple chunks of raw content hammered out this morning. Be warned, it’s pretty rough. It began the year Jeremiah got shot. The caravan had ventured a little too close to the edge of the void that year, and Jeremiah had paid the tax. The […]
Today was one of those days that frightens me down to the tips of my toes. Ever since I came back from SXSW Ivan and I have been working like mad to get the new CMS site up and running, and now a v1.0 version is up at comparativemediastudies.org. I’m heading down to campus tomorrow […]
“In a world where the haystacks get bigger and bigger, how do we create bigger needles?” – Peter Morville
If there’s one recurrent theme to SXSW 2006, it would be who the hell are all these people? The last time I was here, in 2003, there was a lot of hand-wringing about whether or not SXSW would survive. Now the halls are clogged with people, many of the panels are standing-room-only, and there are […]
I’m currently sitting in a truly inspriring lecture by Adam Greenfield on his concept of everyware, from his new book of the same name. The big dea is ubiquitous computing, and this is both thrilling and intellectually sparkling. I have every intention of grabbing a copy of the book after the lecture, and I can’t […]
“Obscurity is the new fame.” – Brad Graham
Guess where I spent my Friday? More details to follow – right now I have to pack my bags to fly to Austin! I live a magic life.
This is the kind of wicked-cool thing that you get exposed to here at MIT: Japanese Device Uses Laser Plasma to Display 3D Images in the Air. How cool is that?!
