Personas by Aaron Zinman is an online component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit put on by the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. The installation crawls the web and aggregates a bunch of data, which it then turns into the color/word bars that you see below. After an initial obligatory se[...]
Archive for August, 2009
August 27th, 2009 - 1:32 am § in Blog
The Long Say
I spent some time today on a mini-project called The Long Say. Ironically (because I have designs toward making this a quick post), the blog focuses on collecting long essays from folks. I just did the whole deploy to my social network thing, and I am now officially excited about it. Check it out: [...]
August 21st, 2009 - 5:05 pm § in Blog
High Jinks
If you’ve read my bio anywhere, you’ve probably read a description somewhere along the lines of “I’m an MSI Candidate in Human-Computer Interaction (and hijinx).” Hijinx has been an “about me” staple since my earliest days of filling out my Facebook profile.[...]
August 19th, 2009 - 3:07 am § in Blog, Michigan Love
The mybandstock.com blog (blog.mybandstock.com) has a really comprehensive post about all of Ann Arbor’s offerings. Wish I had been that comprehensive in the post I wrote a few weeks ago. Hop on over there and enjoy. [...]
Share and Share Alike: Anna TV
[vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/6156231] Having acquired an iPhone not two days before I headed up north last week, I was able to catch the beautiful thunderstorm that passed over us on US23-I75 North near Flint with the phone’s video camera. One of the things I always loved about taking film prod[...]
August 5th, 2009 - 3:31 am § in Blog, Michigan Love
Yes! to Michigan!
Last week I was given the task of introducing a loved one to Michigan. Well, I wasn’t in it alone. From the minute Silvia announced she was going to be able to come to Michigan, I knew there was a group of people ready to show her an authentic and hard-won good time. I had [...][...]