Thanks to encouragement from Mark Frazier at Open World, I’m more seriously exploring existing platforms and content management systems as digital hubs for local communities. I had been thinking along the lines of a fully custom app that I could open-source, but the development and documentation overhead would be high on a project like that. Right [...]
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Thesis Focus: Resilient Communities
February 6th, 2010 2 Comments
For some time, I’ve been mulling over John Robb’s portrayal of “resilient communities“.
This conceptual model creates a set of new services that allow the smallest viable subset of social systems, the community (however you define it), to enjoy the fruits of globalization without being completely vulnerable to its excesses.
Robb believes that resilient communities are both [...]
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ITP Thesis Ideas – Communities
January 30th, 2010 No Comments
Still considering thesis directions, here are my current thoughts, back in line with communities.
Working with communities is a strong interest of mine. I want to encourage sustainable, resilient networks in my communities and to create a “curriculum” that can guide other communities to do the same.
Some of the groups I’ve been thinking about:
Oracle, AZ artists [...]
ITP Thesis Ideas – Application Prototyping
January 23rd, 2010 No Comments
I’ve been considering ITP thesis ideas (see also “Social Tech Under the Radar“), and I keep coming back to the idea of prototyping. Based on my work with BeeMe and at Etsy, I’ve seen the value of using prototypes for product discovery and refinement. I’d like to experiment with and improve upon existing approaches: agile development, rapid [...]
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Social Tech – under the radar
January 10th, 2010 1 Comment
In Brooklyn it’s clear that the market is inundated with tools and services to support community and commerce: Craigslist, Browstoner, and Etsy to name a few. I’ve been thinking about new tools for commerce and community development, but as the proverb goes, you can’t fill a cup that is already overflowing.
I just returned from visiting [...]
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BeeMe: “Best Product Concept” at Microsoft Design Expo ‘09
July 16th, 2009 No Comments
BeeMe was awarded Best Product Concept at Microsoft Design Expo ‘09, with excellent feedback and interest from the judges, participants, and audience. Thanks to everyone at Microsoft Research for making it happen, to Nancy Hechinger and the Design Expo class, an the other schools: Dundee IMD from Scotland, CMU, Art Center, CAFA from Beijing, UI [...]
GivKwik
April 21st, 2009 No Comments
I’m currently working with a group at ITP on an application to get micropayments for charity. We’ve called it givkwik, it leverages “impulse philanthropy“. I’m doing the frontend dev and some backend/database work. We’re using AJAX, php/mySQL, and jQuery, with a healthy dose of semantc markup and styles. Web 2.0 ftw!
update 7.5.09: GivKwik on Mobile [...]
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Surfpointer
March 16th, 2009 No Comments
Working with Bryan Lence in 1210 to create a surf report and alert application that works across mobile, web, and tv devices.
The idea is:
you would be able to get alerts if weather and condition data plus user generated feedback meet your minimum requirements. In other words, if it’s 3-4 ft faces and your buddies are [...]
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4-in-4
January 12th, 2009 No Comments
Day 1:
My goal is to make 40 paintings in 4 days. So far so good, 10 down.
Day 2:
I’ve solicited photos from ITPers for inspiration. Thanks all!
5 paintings today.
Day 3:
2 paintings today. I’m seeing an exponential decay in the quantity of paintings, but I’ve been working larger and longer.
Probably won’t make 40 total. In fact tomorrow [...]
DodgeBot
December 13th, 2008 No Comments
Dodgebot is a facetracking nerf cannon on a mobile platform. It began as a toy, and somehow crept into the realm of weaponry…observe:
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