In this hotel I was staying at, there was this nice map in the lobby. Someone told me that the hotel was previously an oil company that has been refurbished into an hotel and this map would be showing some relevant things for the company concerns. Why do I blog this? I just like this map ...
About cross media entertainment
I was not aware of this concept of "cross media entertainment" that I saw on the Mind Candy Company. Christy Dena defines it as: CME is also interchanged with ARG (alternate reality gaming) by ARG practitioners. I see ARGs, however, as a sub-category, a genre within CME (of which there are many). I...
Place panel at the netpublics
The other day, preparing the "place" planel at the networked publics conference, Kazys Varnelis sent us (panelists) a list of questions that we would discuss. I just pasted them there with some the answers I thought about during a jetlagged night. It's messy of course: 1. What are three ways in whi...
Videos about the future of network in the US
Today at the Networked Publics Conference and Media Festival, there was a very interesting panel about "infrastructure". It started with 3 great video presentations available here (by wally baer, francois bar, shahram ghandeharizadeh, fernando ordonez, aram sinnreich and todd richmond). Each of the...
Google and pop 3D software
It seems that Google recently bought sketchup, a simple 3D modeling program: Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projec...
Thoughts around korea food
Interesting chat yesterday at the korean restaurant in Koreatown with Julian Bleecker, Adam Greenfield and Raphael Grignani. Raphael's working at Nokia Design (previously with the ever watchful Jan Chipchase), he briefly explained us what they basically do with their ethnographic studies (finding b...
LIFT06 survey results
We recently got the results from the evaluation survey of LIFT06. As one of the organizer I am quite happy with what people said. The response rate is significant (173 attendees out of a total of 285 (not counting speakers and organisers) completed the survey. This is a very respectable 60% respons...
Different streets configurations
Last week, I was on a small island in Greece and this week in Los Angeles, two different ways of dealing with spatial issues: Though empty on the pictures, both of them are taken by cars (which have different size anyway). ...
From spatial practices to a context-aware system
Augmenting the City: The Design of a Context-Aware Mobile Web Site by Jesper Kjeldskov, Jeni Paay in Gain: Journal of Business and Design. The authors present “Just-for-Us” - a context- aware web site for mobile devices augmenting the social experience of the city. Informing design, field studies o...
Using Pictochat as a Backchannel in conference
Yesterday at the student presentation (Interactive Media Program at the Annenberg), there was a guy who briefly talked about the use of Nintendo DS' pictochat as a backchannel device during conferences. I found it pretty neat. Quoting his friend who gives the account: The third best thing about the...