I have been playing with Bitstrips, the online comic creation and sharing service that we have been using at Global Kids. It's dead simple and a lot of fun to play with. And it's a great tool for getting our youth to tell simple stories in an engaging way.
Category: Web/Tech
(o.o): First Annual NYC Digital Youth Media & Tech Fest this Saturday (June 27) at New School!
I'm excited to announce that this Saturday, my group Global Kids is participating in the First Annual NYC Digital Youth Media & Technology Festival taking place on June 27 at the New School in NYC. The daylong festival will spotlight the growing movement among teenagers in New York and nationally to design video games, films…
Playing with YouTube Annotations
I like the new "Annotations" feature on YouTube. Opens up interesting possibilities for contexualizing video content in interesting ways, from adding speech bubbles to highlighting certain parts of the shot for the viewer. Now anyone can create a popup music video! Here's my first experiment with using annotations, using a video of me getting body…
Leaked memo from Chris Hughes to Change.gov web developers
By now, you’ve probably seen Obama’s new policy website Change.gov. The media and blogosphere have reported on how ground-breaking and historic this "open government" website is, allowing the public to be involved in the public policy-making process in ways impossible to imagine before. What has received less attention is the intensive web development process that…
Blog Block
Apologies for not having written here for a couple of days. After all the excitement of the Halloween Parade and Obama’s amazing win on Tuesday, I just can’t seem to write anything. I’m sure I will be blathering away again soon, rest assured.
Adriana peeps out the G1 Google Android Phone
I just got a link to my friend Adriana’s first post as Gadget Editor on the cell phone blog PhoneDog.com. She covers the recent launch party for the T-mobile G1 Google Android phone, giving some nice flavor of what the geekarati event what like as well as fondling the phone herself. Adriana also posted recently…
“Stuff I’m Into” as organizational chart
I was playing around with the bubbl.us’s cool web chart creation tool and decided to map all the stuff I was "into." No wonder I’m so scattered at times. It’s a wonder that I can plan my day at all. Click on the image for a larger version.
Global Kids Organizational Chart using bubbl.us
DK at Mediasnackers.com a couple of weeks ago turned me on to a neat web-based brainstorming visualization tool called bubbl.us that I finally got a chance to check out this morning. Looks like a sweet way of quickly showing the connections and relationships between various actors, whether they be a coalition of non-profits or staff…
See what people are tweeting about the US Presidential candidates in Second Life
Kei Moana sent out news that the Capitol Hill sim in Second Life has installed a cool Twitter visualization tool that lets you see what different people are saying about the two US Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates. (For those who don’t know, Twitter is a micro-blogging tool that many Second Life residents are enamoured with.)…
Open-sourcing the grantmaking system
My buddy Creech (Matthew Saunders) is working on a really neat proposal to the Knight Drupal Initiative to develop an open-source grant-making system using the Drupal CMS. I agree with him that there is a clear need for a more transparent, efficient and fair system for non-profits to apply for grant funding from grantmaking agencies. …