Design

Found thanks to the incredible Techmeme and Fortune.com, an article about Second Life opening up its desktop application (not the server) to the Open Source community. As a sometime resident (I dont visit nearly enough – my first life is keeping me away) this is a killer event for the developer community and the user.
Rosedale [...]

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Found this while surfing at work today (yes, thanks to J O B, I will be working all weekends from now through early November) thanks to Adrants:
Welcome to C-Ville – Where Choices Define You

C-Ville is an all-Flash site that teaches kids/teens about the risks of smoking, why making good choices are important, and why [...]

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Got the chance to hang out this evening with the crowd for the first meeting of the NYC chapter of the Social Media Club (whose tagline is “if you get it, share it”). Chris Heuer (founder of BrainJams, Media Literacy advocate and Bloggercon/Gnomedex attendee) and Howard Greenstein (ex-member of the WWWAC, NYNMA, and [...]

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Great article in AdAge about Second Life.
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=110404 
What’s special here is us participating in a new phase of the social-networking evolution,” said Mr. Schionning.

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boundaries between fans and presentation/music
How do fans interact
how to give power back
2 spaces – stage and audience space – existed since greek times
power of fan, power of audience
participatory culture
REM – SD 2003 – estab norms of space
fans determin the set list
bands control over the audience becomes complicated
audience organzied by another algo – profiles in range [...]

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Ok – So this guy needs a G5 for work (he is a video editor) but he cant afford the 5k price tag. So he creates a site to get donations (if 20,000 people give him a quarter, he will get to the $5K number).
Please please please watch the video until the end where [...]

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Found the following on BoingBoing:
The Cardboard House — roofed with HDPE plastic — is recycled, recyclable, flat-pack, home-assembled, and comes with a composting toilet and condenses its own water, which doubles as an under-house ballast tank to keep it from blowing over.
Very cool. Link to BoingBoing article here.
Link to the Houses of the Future site [...]

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The thing I am really looking forward to at Gnomedex is the density of demos at the event. Dave Winer’s debut of Instant Outliner. Adam Curry is bringing something new. Dean Hachamovitch is keynoting and presenting on Longhorn.
Check out John Robb’s comments on Dave Winer’s instant outlinerhere
It connects IM, weblog publishing (a weblog is [...]

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Hugh Macleod’s GapingVoid is a great site. The commentary is awesome and the cartoons are always great.
Above is hysterical. We have been having lots of discussions internally and with clients about the use (and overuse and flashturbatory use) of Flash in our projects and the web in general.
Don’t be that guy.

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