More Volume
My friend tells me I don’t post here often enough. I should be highlighting my thesis as it develops, but it’s anxiety-inducing to post on something I’m still mucking around in. Things are just beginning to solidify, so I’ll post more. Also, I’ve got mess of good quotes I’ve pulled from a number of places [...]
Email apologies
If you’ve emailed me and either gotten bounced or no reply, I’m sorry. My web host is Interland and they’re terrible. For the second time in three weeks I’ve lost email access, so now I’m switching hosts. I’ve heard pair.com is a good web host and that weblogs in Movable Type can be difficult to [...]
What was I saying?
Yes, um, so it’s been a while. When I’m nearing a month since last writing here, the ringing bells of guilt start tolling in my ears. Part of the summer internship involves using a fairly ridiculous number of collaborative tools, so I’m usually pretty burned out by the time I get to thinking about this [...]
First Impressions of Summer Work
So far my summer internship has been wonderful. The work I see people doing is highly collaborative, with an absence of ego and a good sense of energy. I’m guessing it’s due to a mix of the culture, the layout and proximity in which we work, and the overall focus of business. Whatever the causes, [...]
Summer Plans
School is over, I’m submitting my thesis paper and project proposals today, and I’ll be leaving Pittsburgh tomorrow. This summer I’ll be in Boston in the Collaborative User Experience Research Group at IBM, doing stuff related to people communicating using computers. I’ll also be going to several conferences. May 21-24: New Interfaces for Musical Expression [...]
Two Birthdays
The first one is a bit belated: this site passed the two-year mark a few days ago. Thanks to everyone who stops by, and especially to all of you wonderful friends I’ve made through this weblog. The second birthday is my own. Cinco de Mayo, spanish for “Chad’s Birthday”. Thanks, Mom and Dad. Now, if [...]
The Lab that Fell to Earth
Interesting article in this month’s Wired about the future of the MIT Media Lab. The article discusses funding, recently relevant as I’ve been demoing of my previous audio research to local companies to drum up supporters for continued funding through a regional tech fund. It’s not worth too much detail here, but ask me in [...]
Boxes and Arrows up for a Webby
Just barely a year old and Boxes and Arrows is up for a Webby. Not bad. Congrats from myself and the rest of the alumni staff to the current staff. If we win, I’m buying all of you Bay Area B&Aers drinks when I’m back in San Francisco for DUX. That said, all of the [...]
Madness
Things are a bit hectic around here – still trying to get this platespinning act together. Instead of carrying on I’ll refer you to Bruce Sterling’s most recent post to his Viridian List, which contains maybe two dozen high-quality links. I just read his book Tomorrow Now, and I’m still trying to make up my [...]
Side dish of RSS
Over there in the sidebar – for all you RSS aggregator junkies (myself included).