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This is a blog post long overdue. My notes from the last two days at ETech are sparse. This is partially because of my own growing laziness during the latter days of the conference, and partially because I (like to think) I was making a concerted effort to spend more time listening and …
The only people who value your specialist knowledge are the ones who already have it. — William Tozier, from On trivia and details and miscellanea So true. Though I intend to comment on this quote from a perspective slightly different than the context in which it was used. And that is this: …
Ethan Eismann has an interesting rumination about the limitations of language when it comes to new technology. More specifically, he’s not a fan of the term “RIA.” (Ethan prefers the term “RIE” for “Rich Interactive Experience.”) Quite honestly, neither am I. I lump “RIA” in the same category of …
One of the great many benefits to teaching computer programming, hands-on, with art students, in a computer lab, is that I’ve become extraordinarily adept at finding the subtlest of syntax errors with little more than a two-second glance. (Well, this may be a slight exaggeration, but …
The latest episode of that most excellent WNYC radio show, RadioLab, features former zoo director David Hancock’s dream about a new kind of zoo. A zoo without any live animals. A zoo made out of TVs. His idea is inspired by the work of Christopher Parsons (formerly part of the BBC Natural …
This is mostly a ramble, but the question remains: It is now 2008. We have two years to go until 2010. Where the heck are all the flying cars? And for that matter, where are all the automated homes with voice recognition, household helper robots, jetpacks and the other long-promised, but …
Sometimes, in the process of building and creation, you’re told that you should never try to “reinvent the wheel.” If it’s out there already, take it and use it. Unless you’re trying to learn something. Then I say take the wheel, study it backwards and forwards, and reinvent it a hundred times …
I recently discovered this fantastic short documentary on Milton Glaser by Hillman Curtis for Adobe Studio. Milton Glaser, for those who may not know, is a renowned graphic designer, most famous for the “I [Heart] NY” logo and his colorful Bob Dylan poster. Glaser’s comments in the documentary …
There’s a lot of lamenting going on these days over the decline in enrollment in computer science programs across America. Particularly disheartening to many in the field is the conspicuous lack of women in computer science , down from 38% to 28% of all computer science students according to …
What would life be like if we spent more of our time in the creative tension between inspiration and action — in the “dangerous moment” when we’re caught staring down a blank canvas, paintbrush in hand? What if we weren’t afraid to be daring? About a week ago, I heard about the opening of the …
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