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Here’s a terrific video from Ehab Kamal, a motion designer currently studying at Vancouver Film School, all about the more disturbing side of DRM.
13 May 2010
12 May 2010
Autodesk’s sexist splash screen takes the “pro” out of SketchBook Pro
Updated June 9: They’ve replaced it with two cute (but far more professional) cartoons of robots. FTW!
Autodesk’s SketchBook Pro for the iPad is nothing short of brilliant. Layers, great brush control, smashing little interface touches…
…and yet I’m embarrassed to take it out in public. I find myself hunching over my iPad when I launch it, hoping nobody will notice. Because this is what they’d see:
It’s sexist, it’s puerile and it’s anything but professional.
I’ve already asked the publishers on Twitter if they can see their way clear to losing the splash screen:
I love @sketchbookpro on the iPad. But the pouting-babe splash screen is sexist, puerile and embarrassing – not “pro” at all. Can it go?
Rob Cottingham
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If you feel the same way I do, why not retweet that message or send them one of your own? (I’ll update this post as soon as I hear anything.)
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10 May 2010
Telling tales on Twitter
A platform of storytelling that is just now coming into its own as a storytelling medium is Twitter. Twitter’s constraints are evident, as 140 characters only give one so much space to get a point across. However, there is another, less obvious component to tweeting a narrative that is especially important: time.
Unlike movies where the audience can experience the action at their leisure a Twitter narrative gives the author more opportunities to play with the event each installment creates, playing with this phenomenon to spur a different kind of interaction with the text than one can get with a blog. Twitter invites direct response by the audience in a way that other media do not Twitter breaks the fourth wall by inviting the audience to reply, simply by using the platform.
Transmedia storyteller Caitlin Burns has posted a terrific list of ways that people have used Twitter to tell fictitious stories. Definitely worth checking out. (via Jeff Gomez)
I’d add one more, by the way: the mass reenactment of War of the Worlds.
8 May 2010
Northern Voice: Tod Maffin on making your podcast awesome
It’s Tod Maffin on podcasting… which is to say, solid gold advice.
Northern Voice: The Book Broads on turning your blog into a book
New media turning into old? It’s not as counterintuitive as you might think, as Angela Crocker, Kim Plumley and Peggy Richardson of The Book Broads explained.
Northern Voice: Alexandra Samuel on coping with social media
Setting aside my bias (like I could actually do that), I think Alex rocked this talk – and the audience did too. Check out the Twitter stream.
Here are my notes on how Alex uses social media to cope (as opposed to coping with the stress of social media!):
Northern Voice: Alexandra Samuel on coping with social media
Setting aside my bias (like I could actually do that), I think Alex rocked this talk – and the audience did too. Check out the Twitter stream.
Here are my notes on how Alex uses social media to cope (as opposed to coping with the stress of social media!):
Northern Voice: Chris Messina on the open web – and what threatens to close it up
Chris Messina, Google‘s new open web advocate, just wrapped Northern Voice’s second keynote with a call for the defence of the open web from the gatekeeper mentality. (Which is why I just hit “publish” on my last blog post – it covers some of the same terrain, and I’d like to contribute to that conversation.)
I’m liking this no-PowerPoint thing a lot. Here are my notes from Chris’s speech:
And yes, the iPad I drew this on is one example of that locked-down, gate-keeper, appliance model that Chris dubs “pop computing”. But as he points out, those can be great… provided they’re not your only device.
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