July 12, 2007
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This book by IDEO‘s found Tom Kelley is a good, interesting and fairly quick read. In his book The Ten Faces of Innovation Kelley has outlined the opportunity to identify, empower and reward the ten types of employees you may … Continue reading
June 19, 2007
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Lets face it: Today many graphic designers are programmers. They have been moving into the coding world for a number of years. Most cut their teeth on Web 1.0′s plain old HTML. With one foot in Flash‘s ActionScript and JavaScript … Continue reading
June 18, 2007
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At WiscNet’s 2007 Future Technology Conference I presented an Internet2 end-of-year review as Co-Chair of their Internet2 K20 Workgroup. My presentation was modeled after Edward Tufte’s approach to PowerPoint. The New York Times calls Tufte “The Leonardo da Vinci of … Continue reading
June 12, 2007
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In reading Guy Kawasaki’s blogpost By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 I was a little surprised to see listed at #6 the method to obtain his new … Continue reading
May 9, 2007
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Keynote Speaker: Michael Wesch’s presentation Human Futures for Technology and Education was very well received and many were inspired by his work. New technologies have profound implications for education and force us to rethink how we teach, what we teach, … Continue reading
April 16, 2007
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While searching for Masters hilights I found AT&T’s Blue room media directory. Their visual identity jumped right out as a copy of Terena, Europe’s version of Internet2, a high speed academic research network. Terena’s brand identity was redesigned in … Continue reading
April 15, 2007
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The real golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. I’m always disappointed to see how copyright handcuffs what an artist can create. For example: This message is from RealViz’s Stitcher program, a photographic virtual reality rendering program. … Continue reading
April 5, 2007
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The University of Michigan has a Master of Science in Information degree in Social Computing which brings online communities, social networking and user content into a formal degree program. Very interesting. I actually like the competency requirement. 12 credits from: … Continue reading
March 29, 2007
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It was an impressive start. Adobe spent two years and over 80 million lines of code to update their Creative Suite. The new upgrades to Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and the other Adobe + Macromedia products sure made a splash. Interested … Continue reading
March 23, 2007
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Since Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, the creative landscape has really picked up steam. Especially with the rise of AJAX. Adobe is not standing still in the current Age of Google. On March 27th the long expected announcement of their Creative … Continue reading