Learning Aesthetics

Buried in what a take to be an questionable idea, classroom computers, it a remarkable paragraph: The tablet PCs, which feature 15-inch LCD with multi-point technology (not a touch screen, but the surface can pick up more than one stylus at a time), will cost less than $30 each to build, and incorporating them into [...]

My friend Nathan over on Phaedrus pointed me to The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism, and that to DigiActive; all of which are related in my mind anyway, to the latest post over on the SightWork node. Ethan Zuckerman’s CCToDA post is a must read long but worth it and if you don’t have [...]

It just takes a little exploring.. rosaB

The last post was a demo of ‘Deep Zoom’ from Microsoft Live Labs and if I interpret correctly Deep Zoom is based on the same Seadragon technology that you have seen in our demos and in the Photosynth preview.  For the first time, we are enabling individual developers to harness the 2D capabilities of Seadragon [...]

I’m working on getting images into this stuff, and as you may have noticed running behind on that too.  My implementation will be pretty basic for a while, but I’m hoping to get some coder friends involved because there is some incredibly cool stuff on the horizon.  Some posts to demo that first of the [...]

One of the ungotten to posts that’s been hanging about is this… InnerTwitter I’ve been using it for a month or so try it you might just like it…

Mark Miller sent us a pointer to  Zonbu which/who will sell you ‘perfectly adequate’ desktop computer for $99.  This sounds like a heck of a deal and it maybe, depending upon your taste.  You can read all the fine print here but to cut to the chase it’s $99 if you buy a two year [...]

As though I didn’t have enough to keep me over-extended I’m developing an interest in web-writing, if that’s the right word.  Grand Text Auto is a good place to start and they’ll lead you to places like Hypertextopia.

Flight Paths is billed as "a networked novel by Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph," though you’re welcome to join in the creation process.  The whole thing is an interesting convergence of WordPress, Commentpress Theme, and NetVibes which is what really sets it off.

My predictable duties include keeping track of interesting happenings in Second Life, but I also spend a significant part of my time as the Official ITS Accessibility Person.  In that role I’ve developed an interest in Universal Design; despite all that I still find myself thinking in terms of ‘normal’.   Thus a kind of basic [...]