John McCain: U.S. as a debtor nation not a big priority from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s footage I shot of Sen. John McCain at Stanford University on Aug. 1, 2007, when he was still a longshot for the Republican nomination for president. In this 3-minute clip, McCain says of the United States’ dependence on […]
Ubiquity for Firefox: Mashups for regular folks
This is one of the best screencasts I’ve ever seen: It comes to us from Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla Labs. The screencast introduces Ubiquity for Firefox, a plug-in still in its early stages that will turbocharge your Firefox browser. As the Mozilla Labs blog says: You’re writing an email to invite […]
An experiment in youth engagement
An experiment in youth engagement from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the MIT Media Lab recently I interviewed Karen A. Brennan of the wonderfully named Lifelong Kindergarten program (description of programs here) about an MIT project called Scratch. In this 3-minute video she tells how youth personal engagement translates into adult civic engagement, bringing […]
Interview with pro-Tibet videobloggers in hiding
Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing TV interviews my friends and videoblogging pioneers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson while they were in hiding after videotaping some pro-Tibet demonstrators in Beijing during the Olympics. They just returned to the U.S. today. Related: Mark Glaser at MediaShift has the exclusive story explaining how Reporters Without Borders pulled off a […]
A look at Nokia’s N78 and N82
As regular readers of this blog know, I’m a member of the Nokia bloggers program. They loan me smart phones to check out for a few months, I write a review and then return them. Nokia N78 Here’s an important caveat up front: Every user has different aesthetic preferences regarding a device’s form factor. Personally, […]