Archive for April, 2009

Briefly Connected

Posted on April 18th, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

My social Network on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter...
Image by luc legay via Flickr

Here’s a quick outline of the online tools I’m currently using. I’ve started, stopped, wiped out, and started this blog several times over the course of about 4 years. Don’t think that means that I’ve figured out the perfect toolset or that I even have a real handle on what this blog is about. It’s still very much about my online life in the sense that I collect things and share them here online, some found, and some created. I’m not here to provide an authoritarian voice about the Web, but I am here to share some, just some, of the things I find of interest.

While I have a couple of dozen accounts for online services, many of them were created just to try them out and are now lingering. How many millions of account profiles are out there not being used? So here’s a list of my primary online services and how I’m using them.

WordPress
- Blog where I post items I want to share, and use as a record for a later date.

Zemanta

- The Zemanta plugin for WordPress suggest images, tags, links, and related posts. I can write a couple of sentances and Zemanta will recommend images, tags, etc., helping round out the context of my topic.

Flickr
- Photos I want to share publicly. The Zemanta plugin will find recommendations here within my Flickr photos as well as photos from other sources.

Twitter
- I have two accounts on Twitter, which I suspect will become one account soon. @mediarosa with over 2,000 friends currently, and @Jamie_T which I limit to friends and family and to feed my Facebook status. See Hootsuite and Twitter to Facebook below to see how that works.

Facebook
- Yeah, the obligatory Facebook page, with a schizophrenic mix of friends, family, and work related connections.

Hootsuite
I use hootsuite to post to both of my Twitter accounts and to shorten URL’s. Hootsuite also pulls from the rss feed on mediarosa.com to create a new Tweet.

Twitter to Facebook
- This Facebook application takes my Twitter updates from @Jamie_T and re-posts them as my Facebook status updates.

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Pecha Kucha – PowerPoint Geeks

Posted on April 17th, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

Nieuwe Garde Pecha Kucha Salon
Image by Lykle de Vries via Flickr

I just got an email announcing Pecha Kucha Night at Mediamatic in Amsterdam. I’m going to be in Brussels that week. Close enough maybe to make it there? I just missed the New York event, being ignorant of the event even being organized. So don’t be like me, check out the schedule of upcoming Pecha Kucha Nights in a city near you. Maybe there is a way to find love for PowerPoint. Maybe.

What is Pecha Kucha?

Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Who’s doing it? Architects, artists, designers, generally smart and interesting people. Why should you go? It’s a great networking event, you might meet someone, make a connection, and who knows… you might even have fun.

p.s. I say geeks with all due respect and fondness.

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Plug-In Bull Dog

Posted on April 15th, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

Plugin Mini
Image by mediarosa via Flickr

I made a visit to the New York Auto Show yesterday which was less than exciting. I’m not really a big fan of cars but there were two on display that caught my eye. One being the new Mini Cooper plug-in electric that will be available in May or June of this year. I love Mini’s. So cute.

Electrics and hybrids are a big deal at the auto show this year…lulz. And of course the stickers on a number of American cars that announced Wifi installed were prevalent. That was worth a chuckle.

But the other thing that caught my eye looked like it was emulating WWII aircraft complete with rivets, brushed steel, and leather and buckle hood straps. The coolest Scion ever.

Rivets and Leather
Image by mediarosa via Flickr
Miss B. Havin
Image by mediarosa via Flickr
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Data as a Creative Visual Medium

Posted on April 14th, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

Oh! I want to go to this! I’ve seen so many beautiful examples of data visually expressed in Flash or with processing from processing.org.

Harvestworks is pleased to present a special panel discussion that explores the idea of using data as source, material, and inspiration for visual artists. Moderated by Jeff Thompson, the four participating artists, Louisa Armbrust, Tali Hinkis, Siebren Versteeg and Ben Rubin will explore questions about possible trajectories and problems arising from working with data. Of special interest is a second-wave of new media work that is less concerned with a novel visual presentation of data than with a sympathetic way of working that can manifest itself in software, sculpture, prints, quilting, painting, and other media. Each panelist will present their work followed by a question and answer period with the audience.

Data as a Creative Visual Medium – April 17 Harvestworks presents:

DATA AS A CREATIVE VISUAL MEDIUM
Jeff Thompson, Moderator
Panelists: Louisa Armbrust, Tali Hinkis, Siebren Versteeg and Ben Rubin

FRIDAY APRIL 17, 2009, 7PM, FREE

HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
596 Broadway #602 New York City (at Houston St)
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince

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