Packing Continues
I’m just over a week away from leaving San Francisco, going to Iowa for a couple of weeks before heading on to grad school in late June. Next Wednesday (5/29) I’m having a little going away thing at An Bodhran, a bar by my place in the Lower Haight, from 6 to 8 PM. If [...]
Flirting as Interaction
Elan recently linked to the Guide to Flirting, from the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford. He linked to it because, well, he’s a flirt (and he’d be the first to admit as much). But it got me thinking a bit, and it’s worth a link for a couple of other reasons… It’s a concise [...]
Text Messaging on Mobiles
BBC article on a redesign of cellphone keypads – it does an elegant job of interspersing two separate sets of keys amongst each other. The article mentions that the designer was the head of human factors at Apple for five years. I wonder if this will actually end up on any mobiles….
Stephen Johnson on Blogging
You’ve got to love it when a Salon article turns into a software development jam session. Even if Stephen Johnson is just riffing by himself, he’s one hell of a soloist. This is easily the most interesting article I’ve read on blogging by the mainstream media. (does Salon count as mainstream?) Salon: Use the blog, [...]
Participatory Game Design
This seems timely, given that the next Star Wars movie is coming so soon (but hey, Spiderman already made up for the absence of great movies over the past several months). Star Wars Galaxies: A Case Study in Participatory Design It’s interesting to see how far community involvement went in the development of this massively-multi-player [...]