Street Art, Union Square, SF
Street Art, Chinatown, SF
New Interface Paradigms

New Interface Paradigms

Feb 26, 2008

It still strikes me as fascinating that the iPhone and the OLPC (or XO) laptop were both released in the last year, and yet they’re such radically different “computing” and communication devices and concepts. I’ve spent some time playing simultaneously with the iPhone, the XO or OLPC laptop, and my regular computer combo – an ...

Now Your Plants Can Call or Twitter You

Now Your Plants Can Call or Twitter You

Feb 25, 2008

Botanicalls is a project by students at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. It’s “a system that was developed to allow plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the ...

Technology

Technology

Feb 24, 2008

Young Women Driving the Social Web

Feb 24, 2008

In an article at the NY Times last week, the writer states that “research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X Files.” On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage ...

Red Sky

Red Sky

Feb 20, 2008
Clear Qee and Totoro

Clear Qee and Totoro

Feb 20, 2008
Video Bits

Video Bits

Feb 17, 2008

It’s the weekend and I’m going through my digital archives and files again. I know, it’s an obsession. While I definitely output a lot to the web and the social sites I use, there’s always an exponentially increasing amount of digital data that I’m collecting on my computer and storage devices. The more I collect ...

Street Art, Haight

Street Art, Haight

Feb 16, 2008

Street art and sticker art in Haight, SF.

Virtual Pens

Virtual Pens

Feb 15, 2008
Cloud Floof

Cloud Floof

Feb 10, 2008
Maiden Lane, SF

Maiden Lane, SF

Feb 10, 2008

Photos Added

Feb 10, 2008

Looking through my site FTP directory, I came across a folder for “photos” and remembered that I never finished setting it up or linking to it on my site. There’s now a photos link in the navigation of this site, where you can see recent photos I post to Flickr, as well as my current ...

Who’s the Best Presidential Candidate for the Open Source Community?

Feb 8, 2008

I’ve been a supporter of the open source movement since I first got on the web in the early 90s. Almost everything I’ve learned about the web and programming, I learned from downloading open source software and giving it a try, then hacking it to customize it to my own needs. If it weren’t for ...

Enviromunny

Enviromunny

Feb 6, 2008

Spent the day painting these custom Kidrobot munny pieces.

Quoted in the New York Times

Feb 5, 2008

Emily Chang was quoted in an article titled ”Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?”, in which Noam Cohen compares the websites of the two candidates.

Super Tuesday Online

Super Tuesday Online

Feb 5, 2008

I always get excited when it’s an election year, but particularly this one because it’s been eight long years. Two web projects related to the U.S. election caught my attention today. First, the New York Times, Design Observer and AIGA teamed up to create an initiative in citizen journalism. The Polling Place photo project accepts ...