And you can’t see it. What if that most interesting thing ever were the internet, or whatever it is that you were trying to find on the internet today? This censorship would be the reality.
SOPA and PIPA are two bills made by old congressmen who don’t understand young technologies. Lots of money has been thrown at them by special interests who are trying to make money by limiting access to information. That’s anti-American. If you think the government has no place telling you what you’re allowed to read, see or think, then you should be aware that these bills are an audacious and insane over-reach of power.
Here are some places where you can find more information about them and other sites supporting the SOPA/PIPA blackout and awareness day today:
This was my contribution to SHARE #13 – a Portland creative group that gets together to create and share. The prompt was: LUCKY.
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Once you learn to use the suffixes Spanish gets a lot more fun. My favorite was always “azo” – pronounced “atho,” it’s used when you need to make something bigger or imply its largess. It’s a bit colloquial… not a formal structure… you wouldn’t use it in a job interview; not if you were wearing a suit. I first heard it in an English lesson, naturally, when Maria Jose was referring to the size of the lottery. “Un huevazo” she said. Un huevo would have been big enough – egg also being slang for something big, but adding that suffix embiggened it with a double word score. Continue reading →
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Dear YouSendIt,
I very much appreciate how you make it easy to send stuff sometimes, but please stop doing this forever.
Thanks.
Check out the deck that Leslie and I presented at Intel’s “Be Social” conference last week. It’s a great deck that addresses some big principles that it’s important to remind yourself on while working with social design. At almost 25,000 views already it seems to have struck a chord with at least a few people. Check out more about it on the JESS3 blog.
It doesn’t have all the answers, but it’s a good list of questions to consider if you’re in this line of work.
A special thanks to everyone at Intel for such a great conference!
Daniela‘s (twitter)deck entitled “Narrative Image: The How and Why of Visual Storytelling” that she presented last week at a Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI!) conference in Olympia, WA made it to the front page of Slideshare.
It’s a great presentation. If you’ve ever thought about how images convey meaning and how that meaning may or may not help to communicate a message, then it’s definitely worth checking out.
You should undertand why the gamification of our reality is important – something to be aware of to both leverage it to your benefit as well as our societal benefit, and also to protect yourself against its potential to manipulate you. In any case, Jesse Schnell is the guy to listen to…
Part 1
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Ever late to my own party, I wanted to post the deck that Jesse and I presented at the Nonick Conference in Bilbao a couple of weeks ago.
Here’s the blog post about it on the JESS3 blog.
It’s already over 14,000 views in 6 days since it went live, and I’m proud of it. It’s always tough to tackle an abstract subject like encouraging better thinking about how to create interactive and shareable experiences online and through social platforms, and even more so when most of the audience speaks English as a second language. This presentation was extremely well received, and I hope to continue spreading these ideas into the future… starting now, with this embed! :)
As always – love to hear your feedback. Try me here: @supnah on Twitter.
Permalink to The World of Social Objects deck on Slideshare.
This is going to be my headshot for a new Eloqua social media playbook coming out soon. Excited!
Oh, what a cruel fate!!! Hilarious, and perhaps even tongue-in-cheek review of “Beastly” in the United in-flight magazine. Penny Arcade already said everything there is to say about the movie itself (I presume), but this just added another layer. Who on earth would want to live there??!?!!!
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I’ll be heading to Bilbao to speak at the Nonick Conference next week. Jesse Thomas and I will be representing JESS3 and speaking about the importance of social objects and storytelling in successful social media strategies. Looking forward to jamon, pintxos and tinto.
A disconcerting trend has begun to pop up of late. Perhaps it’s only here in the confines of the locavoracious organic farm-to-table obsessed Portland in this not so hot economy, but many restaurants have begun to charge for bread. Sure, it’s only a few dollars. Sure, they try to ease the pain of ordering your bread by including a small ramekin of extremely well described olive oil, or a small pat of some very special kind of butter, but let’s not fool ourselves. It’s not that special; at least not usually. What’s worse, is that at first I saw it only with really good bread, but now I’m beginning to see it occur when the bread is mediocre or worse.
I’ve been taking this in stride, and with every grain of salt that has been necessary to make it palatable, but this week it was all taken too far when @deecreature and I were at a restaurant that simply did not serve bread. At all. (Note: They were not gluten free, and served an amuse bouche on crostini… so clearly it’s not something about the bread itself).
Therefore I present to the world the concept of The Slicing Fee (time of birth 7:19pm PST, 05/06/2011). Continue reading →
Joe Hewitt leaving Facebook may be one of the best things to happen to HTML5 in a long time. He’s taking off to return to his roots (as in Firebug) in order to focus on solving problems for developers working with the nascent and developing languages like HTML5, the cloud and mobile.
“Technologies have a way of growing faster than the ecosystem of tools needed to support them.” – Joe
I have no doubt that in this role as a meta developer, a developer developing for developers, Joe Hewitt will have a significant and sustained impact on helping new platforms be used to their fullest extent. It’s a lofty goal. Good on ya. Here’s to not just making a great app, but making tools that help an army of others make a volume of great apps – for all of us.
Good luck, Joe.
Color, the new geo-social-media-sharing app is being underrated by all the haters. I’m all for some good hilarious snark like the much lauded review of the app on iTunes. But we’re all forgetting that just because something does happen to contain all of the hottest trends and social elements doesn’t mean it doesn’t also have some really interesting stuff going on.
The most recent TWiT had a pretty even-keeled discussion of Color by Leo Laporte, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Xeni Jardin and Baratunde Thurston that managed not to totally pan the app, but couldn’t foresee many applicable use cases. Kirkpatrick brought up the idea of music festivals as somewhere it might become useful, and all could agree that nobody knew what the hell Twitter would be good for either when it first hit, and also that there’s a high likelihood that Color is going to have a serious data mining aspect that leads to revenue tucked somewhere into its back end in order to take advantage of the data all the prophesied users are going to be pumping into it.
Here’s the thing – I don’t think it’s all that hard to see the potential utility of this app. Continue reading →
Jack Dorsey’s great 15 minute speech to his company “Square” in a town hall meeting on his 34th birthday. The story of the Golden Gate Bridge as a proxy for the importance of design in your work.
“Your homework this weekend is to cross the bridge.”
