Via Rod Begbie comes this video by Hil:
It’s a kinetic sculpture of the Fail Whale, an illustration by Yiying Lu which is often seen by twitter users.
Anyone care to write a greasemonkey script that will replace the default fail whale with this video whenever Twitter displays it? At least then it will feel like things are moving . . .
(via Boston IxDA)
The Boston chapter of the Interaction Design Association is hosting a night of short talks – I imagine something like Pecha Kucha or Ignite! – this Thursday (June 26th, 2008) 6pm-9pm at Bentley College. RSVP required
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I’ve mentioned Chris Kelty‘s Two Bits as part of my summer reading list. Although I have the PDF sitting in my “to read” folder I think I’m waiting on the hardcover I ordered from Amazon. Seems like the kind of book that requires more reflective reading.
In the meanwhile, here’s Chris presenting at a Berkman Luncheon Series event on June 17th, 2008:
Wednesday was day two of Web Content 2008, and I presented in the afternoon on the rise of user-contributed content and community, and the impact that’s had on content management.
I had thought about calling it “From Content Management to Community Management” or maybe “Content Management is Dead” but ended up instead with: “Upload, Tag, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of Participation.”
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Last week, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I moderated a panel on Open Source Platforms.
The panelists were:
Although the conference doesn’t audio tape or videotape the breakout sessions in the smaller rooms – only the keynote – they were nice enough to allow us to record the panel’s audio.
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