“Follow Your Weird”

September 29, 2011

A transcript of Bruce Sterling‘s “The Wonderful Power of Storytelling” talk at the Computer Game Developer’s Conference in 1991. (Schismatrix is still one of my favorite books.) “That’s why I’m here as your guest speaker tonight, ladies and gentleman, It’s because I can think fast on my feet. It’s because I’m the kind of author who likes [...]

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I Agree With Elizabeth Warren

September 29, 2011

Elizabeth Warren gave her thoughts on justice and taxing the rich at a campaign event. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You build a factory out there – good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest [...]

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Designing On The Campaign Trail

September 24, 2011

The plan was to have Camelot in the AppStore sometime in September but this didn’t happen. Various things “conspired” to prevent this but the bottom line is I didn’t focus like I did with QuickGifter™. I did manage to do some design work for the iPad version over the past three months but no actual [...]

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Keep Your Crises Small

September 5, 2011

Ed Catmull of Pixar talking at the Stanford 2007 Entrepreneurship Conference about why successful companies fail and why is it so difficult to find good ideas?

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WordPress Tag Cloud Defaults

September 5, 2011

I discovered that my Pixar ’72 post tags weren’t showing up in my tag cloud automatically. Some googling turned up a 45 tag limit for the standard WordPress tag cloud but it’s possible to get around it by editing the PHP file containing the default setup. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the wp_widget_tag_cloud function in widgets.php [...]

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Pixar ’72

September 3, 2011

One of the earliest examples of 3D computer rendered animation was created at the University of Utah by Ed Catmull and Fred Parke in 1972. You can read more about the history of this animation here.

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How Steve Jobs & Apple Did It

August 25, 2011

An article about innovative product design from Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini, founder of the Apple Human Interface Group. In bringing that original Mac to market, Steve hit on a formula that worked for him. He keeps repeating it, and it seems to get better every time. It worked for the iPhone, and it worked for the iPad, [...]

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“Stay hungry, stay foolish”

August 25, 2011

Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO yesterday. I wondered how the team he’s created will fare compared to the one at the helm when he left Apple in May 1985. I think about all the Apple Computer products I’ve owned over the years – an Apple II+, a Mac SE, a Mac Performa, an iBook [...]

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Apple 1984 Newsweek Advertising Insert

August 9, 2011

In the Fall of 1984 Apple published a 16-page advertising insert in Newsweek magazine. For Many, this was the first “up-close” experience with a Macintosh — detailing the radical features of this new computer.

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Intelligent Narrative Generation

August 9, 2011

Attended a talk yesterday at the MIT Media Lab by Mark Riedl on his work with intelligent narrative generation at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing. His focus is on computational story generation, getting computers to create on-demand experiences with various levels of just-in-time personalization. His ultimate goal is to get a computer to respond [...]

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