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, […]
Digital Storytelling summit
Spent the afternoon at Digital Storytelling & 21st Century Skills: A Summit & Gathering at KQED public television in San Francisco. Digital storytelling pioneers Denise Atchley and Leslie Rule, both on Ourmedia‘s Board of Advisors, led the sessions: Education panelists: Moderator: Leslie Rule, KQED Digital Media Center Kim Hyun-Deok Forman, Professor, San Francisco State University […]
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 […]