The time-honored “convergence culture” doctrines of MIT professor Henry Jenkins. Henry’s a given in 2017. Design is seedy. Well, yeah. Vizio releasing 52″ 1080p LCD for $2,200. I wonder if that would fit on my new mantel? How microstock is used. I know I’m trying to use microstock whenever possible here at CMS. Trees in […]
This weekend I: Got a refund on The Wrong New Apartment. Put down a check for The Right New Apartment(?). Dinged level 29 with my new Dranei mage in WoW. Went to the midnight release party for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Started reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Finished reading Harry Potter […]
I’m writing this on my iPhone while waiting in line with Laura at the Harry Potter release at the Barnes and Noble in Burlington, Massachusetts. We’ve been here since around 9:30 and there’s gotta be about 1500 people here. It’s insane! There’s a bunch of girls in full garb near us that are singing bizarre […]
I was about to write something along the lines of, “Oh, poor weekend, we barely knew ye,” but then it dawned on me that no, actually, this weekend was incredibly productive. This weekend I got a price quote on the new glasses and contacts that I need, ran a batch of Singaporeans back to Costco […]
I’m settling into my new office here on campus, and it’s freaking amazing. Now, of course, my mind is turning to optimizing my workflow here in this new environment, and I’m contemplating using AIM as an interoffice communications tool. iChat is surprisingly evolving into a real staple of my day, much faster and friendlier than […]
It’s nice when I can make a little art over the course of my workday, such as the new illustration for the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Affiliations page.
Well, this is representative of the state of things in my life recently: I just grabbed five minutes to update my homepage. Now it actually says 2007 instead of 2006. Sheesh.
I’ve been trying to return to my writing lately, sitting down at the keyboard and banging away in the mornings before work. It’s been sort of working; although I’m still quite rusty, the things that are beginning to appear have some promise. This is what came out this morning. There are reasons, I suppose, why […]
Swiped from SarahScott: You both crossed the Rubicon yesterday. Which one of you chose the route no longer matters. Which is the ventriloquist and which is the dummy is now irrelevant. But that you have twisted the machinery of our government into nothing more than a tawdy machine of politics, is the only fact that […]
Web-based iPhone games begin to appear. This needs exploration. Official Apple iPhone dev docs. Also needs exploration. Shepley on the iPhone. iPhone: beyond sweet. More design-for-iPhone thoughts. A Nerd in a Cave. Exactly. AIGA: Is there a Doctor of Design in the house? PhD in Communication Arts? Design Fiction? Maybe that’s why I loved Pattern […]
