I just got a new inexpensive video camera. I opted for the Flip’s competitor Kodak Zi6, because the codec plays well on a Mac and H.264 is simply a superior format. But, I have to say the design is not as elegant as the Flip’s and I had some issues recording with it, which seemed [...]

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Charlene Li sparked a bit of controversy by crowdsourcing her Logo using CrowdSPRING. Designers protested that services like CrowdSpring and 99Designs take work away from them and that you can’t get the same level of quality. Charlene’s colleague, Jeremiah Owyang, commented on the controversy on his blog and defended Charlene’s action pointing out [...]

In my last post “Life | Work: understanding service ecology”, I left you hanging in an attempt to break up my thinking in digestible chunks. To recap: Though it may seem unrelated, my readings on design thinking have helped me shape this idea of an ecological approach to digital communication, especially when I came across [...]

MCDM alumni Jac de Haan stars in this video and explains to fellow high-school teachers and youth organizers how pugetsoundoff.org is an “open community for teens to express their views — with multimedia.”

Pugetsoundoff.org takes on a interesting challenge: can we get teens to engage in advocacy by giving them a public space to debate their [...]

“We don’t employ translators as each and every user is a translator.”
John Maeda announced in his blog this new website for Manga (Japanese comics) where users can create their own translations of the books (after buying them) and then sell them on manganovel.com –although you get paid in points, which you can only use to [...]