My Bloglog

QT: Twitter as Content

A friend of mine tweeted about signing up for Ad.ly.  I went over to see what it was. Basically, for a twitterer, you sign up, select what types of ads you approve and once a day it will tweet an ad in your stream and pay you for that tweet. (The example they gave on [...]

QT: The Translation of Significance

I was just letting my dogs out and I was amused at how the “go outside” ritual has evolved.

Back when boydog was a puppy we decided that plushy toys stay inside.  Every time he trotted to the door with one, when he got there we would tell him “out” and he would spit out the [...]

The Daily Blog – Me Today

Once again it is quite late to be going to bed, and I am writing up my post for the day.  A couple of years ago I did a month of “Me Today” videos.  Each day I would record something on video and post it up to Viddler.   With the me todays the idea was [...]

QT: Augmented Reality

When I hear (or read) discussions on augmented reality usually it involves various devices – cool glasses that project data over physical reality, cameras that map physical and virtual onto a screen, and other devices that augment input.

The other day I was watching the below TED talk on the Design Genius [...]

QT: Location and the Virtual

As I look at new applications, services and games I see that more and more of them are using physical location as part of the information used. While the virtual can give one the opportunity to have an experience independent of any real world location, there is also an appeal to seeing where people [...]