Weezer’s Internet All-Star Music Video
Weezer’s Internet All-Star Music Video:
Congrats to the fine folks at Idee
The coolest startup in Toronto has been recognized by the finacial post. They deserve all the attention and praise that they get because the company, it’s people, the technology, the setup, the scary lathe in the basement are all awesome.
Toronto Catastrophe Slam part of Digifest 2008 – Toronto Catastrophe Slam part of Digifest 2008
Toronto Catastrophe Slam part of Digifest 2008 – Toronto Catastrophe Slam part of Digifest 2008:
1938Media brings us the TechRooster. It’s nice to have another Fowl Mouth around.
I would really love to see more of the Tech Rooster so everyone should go support him at 1938media.
Announcing 30 public slots for the TORONTO CATASTROPHE SLAM – part of Digifest 2008 – Ontario Science Centre – Sunday, March 30, 2008
Hey everyone I just wanted to invite people to participate in the TORONTO CATASTROPHE (design) SLAM "a day of dialogue over Toronto disaster scenarios".
This event is part of Digifest 2008 ( http://www.dx.org/digifest/ )
ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE -Sunday, March 30, 2008
THE TORONTO CATASTROPHE SLAM
"a day of dialogue over Toronto disaster
scenarios".
Be part of this unique day of dialogue and challenge for academics, students, professionals, not-for-profit and the public. The purpose of this event is to exchange knowledge and ideas with others on the topic of catastrophe, disaster and emergency. This is a rare multidisciplinary engagement that will include informative keynotes and participatory challenges that will be designed to examine scenarios including a Natural Disaster scenario, a Health Epidemic and a Security Crisis. For more info on the Catastrophe Slam check out http://digifest2008.wik.is/
WHAT IS A DESIGN SLAM
A Design Slam is where we have a fictitious group of stakeholders present a problem to groups "consultants". We will form these groups randomly at the beginning of the event. These ingenious and innovative people will have a set block of time to design and pitch their idea to the stakeholders.
We have 30 slots that we are opening up for free public registration to the Catastrophe Slam but I encourage you to check out the entire 3 day Digifest event for $25.
You can register for digifest here: http://www.dx.org/digifest/register.html
BUT if you want to sign up for the Catastrophe Slam only head over to
http://digifest2008.wik.is/
1. Create an Account on the Wiki.
2. Sign Up for the event on the signup page. No Charge
It should be a really great day we have some great people coming out to this event and it is a unique space to play in.
Mix08 Keynote and my concerns around the effects of Microsoft embracing design
So the keynote at Mix08 was awesome. The demos always impress. Ray Ozzie is kinda dull. Sorry. Dull.
Watch the keynote from the Visit Mix site. It is a great show.
Now for my concerns… :-)
While I really appreciate the desire to enhance the designer’s toolkit with controls that can be used as building blocks in the foundations of our applications I am concerned about potential to abuse. I truly believe that Microsoft is doing it’s best to embrace designers but I wonder if developers will inadvertently take this work and corrupt or commoditize the value that good design can bring to a project.
I am a little fearful of carousel controls and Deep Zoom (Sea Dragon) everywhere when the effort to do these types of interfaces becomes effectively none. They say God is in the details so while I applaud the desire to have people do less grunt work and focus on adding value to a project. Do not lose sight of the details . Developers you can’t always do it all, consult a designer, Business Owners your developers can’t always do it all, consult a designer.
Good design is not a feature it is a pillar of the success of your product.
Oh and here is a picture by Betsy of Bryce singing on the RockBand Stage, sober to boot.
