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Authenticity, Authorship, and Authority in Social Media

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Last week I attended the MESH conference for the second consecutive year and once again the issue arose around evaluating the use of social media technology by a commercial enterprise. To varying degrees it came up in three consecutive sessions, the most electric of which was a mosh pit with a panel of representatives from […]

Landing on Planet Drupal (or trying to)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

It’s been just almost a year since I focused my professional attention onto usability for web applications and launched this web site. I’ve known for about eleven-and-a-half months that, as a hybrid between a blog and a business web site, this site has significant issues. My goal was to see if I could mix my […]

The Meaning of Art, The Purpose of Technology

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

As a software artist I am a beast with two heads. I am an artist by compulsion and I am a software designer/engineer both by choice and sheer determination to understand technology. Most people tend to address one head or the other, depending upon whether they meet me first as an artist or as an […]

The Magic of Community Experience

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Does technology have to be highly advanced in order to feel like magic?
An example of a very simple technology that produced a very powerful ‘magical’ experience came to mind last week while I was participating in a podcast at the Mesh 2007 conference. Jeff Parks arranged the podcast and invited a number of experts […]

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