Archive for March, 2007

links for 2007-03-29

earth album alpha - a google maps + flickr mash-up with a side of rails and scriptaculous
Cool app for photos from around the world.
(tags: photography)

WhatAreYouSmoking.org
There’s a lot of bad stuff in cigarettes…. perhaps least of which is the tobacco itself. Find out what’s really in those nasty thing.
(tags: politics antismoking)

links for 2007-03-27

Creating Passionate Users: Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” (why I cancelled my ETech presentations)
There’s a lot of bloggers who should be ashamed of themselves. Seriously ashamed. Honestly, I’m ashamed to even be part of this culture.
(tags: blogging culture)

links for 2007-03-26

Museumr > dumpr.net
(tags: photography flickr)

links for 2007-03-24

Novint Falcon - A new kind of input device
Built for gamers, this cool device was on display at GDC. It offers a completely different metaphor for inputting movement in games. Very interesting.
(tags: gaming)

Welcome to RiffTrax!
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 guys are back! Spend $2.99 and get a voice over for your favorite movies that apply [...]

Different Levels of Personal

Since coming home from SXSW, I’ve been half-joking that I sent more text messages during that event than I sent the entire time I had a cell phone. (This billing cycle is up to 98 already) I’ve got a beefy data plan with something like 1000 included text messages, so why not? Text has taken [...]

links for 2007-03-23

Wired News: Real-Time Reality Feeds Justin.tv
The movie EdTV comes alive. With less drama and more fun.
(tags: webcam video)

Wired News: Fears of a YouTube Swiftboat
Good article about the upcoming presidential election and the power of YouTube in the process.
(tags: politics video youtube)

Would Anybody Care if Your Company Disappeared?
Josh picks up an interesting discussion about how much [...]

MyBlogLog Fun

Broc is doing a fun giveaway to get excitement generated about his MyBlogLog community. Pretty smart - easy and fun.

SXSW: Kids on the Web

Some days, while I chew away on some social design challenge for some client my mind drifts to a recurring question:
"Why are we doing this now, when we know we’re going to have to redesign and rethink absolutely everything when today’s kids get a bit older"
Kids today really are different than generations past. My 80+ [...]

links for 2007-03-18

Online Community Lessons from SXSW and Community 2.0
Lee does a great job of recapping the lessons learned from recent conferences.
(tags: community)

links for 2007-03-17

The Panderers
Fantastic new band I found on MySpace. I really dig their sound… unfortunately I won’t be transporting it with me any time soon since they don’t have a web site, albums, or song downloads. Apparently the MySpace phenom caught them off guard. Really real
(tags: myspace music)

An Open Letter to Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs claims to [...]