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 […]
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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 […]
Behold the coming Cinematic Internet
At the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday I was pulled aside and invited to interview Eric B. Kim, an Intel senior vice president and general manager of its Digital Home Group. Earlier in the day I heard Kim give a keynote talk with Patrick Barry, vice presdent of TV for Yahoo!
Kim talks about this significant new development in the 11-minute interview (above).
SeeClickFix: Get things fixed in your community
I proposed developing something very similar to this to the Knight Foundation two years ago (along with a follow-up back end) and was turned down. But somebody built it anyway. San Francisco Chronicle: SeeClickFix: Get things fixed in your community. Good news for citizen engagement: SeeClickFix.com has just arrived in San Francisco. The site, started […]
Dancing Matt Harding stumbles on Web’s true meaning
You’ve probably seen the Where the Hell Is Matt? videos — the main one has been viewed over 11 million times and the 2008 version (above) more than 9 million times. In today’s San Jose Mercury News, Mike Cassidy interviews dancing Matt Harding and writes about he has stumbled on the true meaning of the […]