Project Code Rush – Open source film
In the world of technology and commerce, so much has changed, and so much hasn’t. I came across Project Code Rush | Click Movement (dot) org, the site that hosts the Project Code Rush movie, via the OpenCulture’s excellent 500 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. page. The one hour documentary gives a [...]
Water Stress in Sub-Saharan Africa and my Bathroom aka the Two Month Bucket Shower Project
Yes I lived in West Africa for quite some time. Yes I took bucket showers daily. Save the few benefiting from natural gas, petroleum products, and oil [1] and a few Yahoo boys and girls[2], this is the norm for the upper, middle and lower classes. A great equalizer of sorts if you will. In [...]
Tagxedo
If you like Wordle, you’ll love Tagxedo. The short of it is, Wordle creates beautiful word clouds and Tagxedo turns words — famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters — into a visually stunning word cloud with words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. You [...]
Interview with Chick Foxgrover
As a part of the #140cuse conference, I interviewed Chick Foxgrover SVP, Chief Information Officer at American Association of Advertising Agencies (twitter, LinkedIn) about creative technologies. Chick is the CIO at American Association of Advertising Agencies, interested in social business practice, collaboration, cyborg evolution, semantic web, art, and is a creative technologies evangelist. Our conversation [...]
Submission-focused presentations
I recently attended iConference 2012 in Toronto. It was my first academic conference and a refreshing change from the industry conferences I have attended. At the iConference, no one was selling anything and it was a big information-sharing extravaganza. The presentations were plentiful and I was rather surprised to see so many presenters reading their [...]
US Wellness Meats sells quality
