I’ve been doing some deeper research into Tangible User Interfaces (TUI), and specifically–multitouch screen technologies.  As a Flash developer, I’ve been waiting for the day to put my interactive art onto a touch-screen surface.  I’m amazed to discover just how far things have come, and especially in the blooming creative community developing around open-source and [...]

FaceBook.com has become the most-trafficked social network in the world–surpassing MySpace in unique users, competing with Google search for total page views, and recently surpassed 100,000,000 simultaneous users.  Accordingly, we can consider FaceBook the core representation of the dynamic social web, and a significant arena for in-formulating (bringing “form” into) the collective body and mind.  Here are a few interesting elements [...]

I watched the Zeitgeist Addendum film last night–and am so enthusiastic about it.  I had seen the original Zeitgeist film last year, and so knew generally what to expect–yet this new film went way beyond my expectations, and has had a profound effect on me.  This is the most comprehensive and compelling presentation of outlining both the problems [...]

Good, simple, engaging, effective, social media (see it full screen here: girleffect.org):

Everyone and their grandmother’s dog needs a website with good design presentation, key functionalities, and the ability to manage the content themselves or as an organizational team.  This later aspect is referred to as a Content Management System (CMS).  Years ago, it was typical to the internet industry to contract a “Web Master” to manage [...]

This video is BBC’s special broadcast as part of the “Horizon” series.  It features an engaging narrative that introduces various ideas about the singularity and human enhancement.

Words themselves are becoming antiquated. Rarely enough do we even find an arrangement as worthy as these: Today, Homo sapiens is faced with a rapid modification of his environment, a transformation for which he is the involuntary collective agent. I am not implying that our species is threatened with extinction or that the “end of [...]

With new technology comes new possibilities to execute technique. If we look to the trend of advents in internet protocols, we see how particular innovations in the information technology domain resulted in tremendous transformative effects in social, economic, and political arenas. The TCP/IP protocol allowed for the identification of independent computers, and for the transfer [...]

We have been holding on eight long years for the opportunity of this day. Be sure to vote twice during this election: once at the polling stations, and then again with your state of mind

During the past few weeks, while I’ve engaged in deep research of new trends in internet marketing and social media for my own entrepreneurial initiatives, I’ve also been keeping track of much of the on-line media involved with the Obama campaign.  Of all the great promotional videos that have emerged–my favorite has been this one [...]