I was hoping to have this in better shape before posting today, but I’m getting impatient. I’m not apologizing or anything, I’m just saying if you try this out and something doesn’t work, there’s a good chance that I already know about and am currently working on it. So what is the LettrWritr? The short [...]
I got back to New York after a four-hour bus ride that dropped me off at the Port Authority at 12 in the morning. It would’ve been a pretty miserable ride, except Steven Jackson was there to keep me company, I managed to get a slight bit of work done before my laptop battery totally [...]
A more condensed version of the annual look at the triumphs and tirbulations of participatory media took place at MIT this year (too bad I didn’t realize that until after I had booked my hotel at Harvard Square) and had a decidedly more political slant to it than last year’s conference. Maybe something happens the [...]
After our class discussion last Monday, Jonah recommended I check out iso-phone. I guess it was my reference to letter writing and how I’d noticed the effect that your environment can have on the letter that you write. Personally, I find this effect to be not only interesting, but also essential. It’s part of where [...]
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It’s funny how the simplest things can be the most inspiring. Last week we parsed through some text files and calculated how many times each word appeared in the file. Simple enough. But start doing it with text that you’ve written, say, in email, to other people, and you start getting an interesting sense of [...]
So last week I had to present more on the “context” of my thesis, but I didn’t really get into the details of the projects I showed – why I loved/hated them or how exactly I saw them fitting into my area of research. I also thought of/discovered a few more after the fact. Most [...]
Unfortunately, I don’t think it will fly for this semester’s projects. But I enjoyed writing it for Nancy’s class last semester and didn’t want to see it “go to waste. There’s a story my mother likes to tell us. By us I mean my sister and me. And by story I don’t mean so much [...]
It’s recently occurred to me that, while I’ve been busy being a good thesis student – researching, reading, talking, experimenting- I’ve completely neglected to document any of my thoughts or findings online. Bad ITP student! So here was last week’s experiment, the Email to text message converter. I’ve been taking what I’m calling the “Ze [...]
This was the first, and probably the hardest, of many weekly thesis experiments to come. The first week of school, I posed myself the question, what is it that I say to someone, before they’ve even read my message, about why it is that I’m sending them the message. In other words, what am I [...]