http://donturn.com/blog Selected ideas and links. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:39:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All for now. http://donturn.com/blog/2008/12/19/upgraded-to-wordpress-27/ While driving through Arlington on I-30, I got a look at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium under construction. Doesn't it look just a little bit like the Legion of Doom's headquarters? http://donturn.com/blog/2008/11/18/arlington-tx-the-new-hq-for-the-legion-of-doom/ This report, titled: Indie Fever The genesis, culture and economy of a community of independent software developers on the Macintosh OS X platform by Michiel van Meeteren looks pretty interesting. ‘Indie Fever’ is the first result of a multi-year human geography research program to investigate the social and economical world ... http://donturn.com/blog/2008/11/17/indie-fever-a-report-on-macintosh-independent-developers/ These are the Web sites that I'll be obsessing about today: ABC News - Politics Comedy Central Indecision 2008 - Live Blog CBS News Election Coverage CNN Election Center Drudge Report FiveThirtyEight.com Electoral Projections Done Right Google Maps - 200 Elections Gallery Huffington Post - Politics New York Times - Politics PBS Vote 2008 Election Map ReadWriteWeb also has a great ... http://donturn.com/blog/2008/11/04/election-day-via-the-web/ Next Tuesday, October 21, 2008 @ 5:30 pm -7:30 pm at the University of Texas LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor there looks to be an interesting talk: Strauss Center :: Science 2.0: Globalized Innovation in Electronics by Dan Hutcheson, CEO, VLSI Research Dan Hutcheson, of VLSI Research, Inc., is a recognized ... http://donturn.com/blog/2008/10/17/science-20-globalized-innovation-in-electronics-talk-at-utexas/ I will be giving a research talk (added recently, thus not on the conference Web page yet) titled: Advertising & Awareness with Sponsored Search:  an exploratory study examining the effectiveness of Google AdWords at the local and global level on October 28 at the American Society of Information Science & ... http://donturn.com/blog/2008/10/16/advertising-awareness-with-sponsored-search-an-exploratory-study-examining-the-effectiveness-of-google-adwords-at-the-local-and-global-level/ Marshmallow Veeps! Originally uploaded by donturn This idea suddenly occurred to me the other day. Instead of building marshmallow "people" from scratch, these halloween marshmallow peeps seemed to be a perfect fit. I used blue food coloring to make a "blue collar" on the very white (Delaware?) ghost for Joe Binden. The ... http://donturn.com/blog/2008/10/02/marshmallow-veeps/ This Fall 2008 semester at the University of Texas, I'm teaching a course on: Knowledge Management Systems This course surveys Knowledge Management systems that enable the access and coordination of knowledge assets. Technologies reviewed will include intranets, groupware, weblogs, instant messaging, content management systems and email in both individual and organizational ... http://donturn.com/blog/2008/09/29/knowledge-management-systems-fall-2008/ This Fall 2008 semester at the University of Texas, I'm teaching a course on: Semantic Web Technologies This course approaches understanding Semantic Web technologies from three perspectives: Top-down, theoretical approaches to organizing semantic information including ontologies, taxonomies, knowledge representation and software agents. Bottom-up approaches, sometimes called "emergent semantics" ... http://donturn.com/blog/2008/09/29/semantic-web-technologies/ Maybe the only bit of design work I've seen that uses a Tablet PC for something innovative: Crayon Physics Deluxe Crayon Physics Deluxe is a sequel to the popular freeware game Crayon Physics. Or you can think of it as the game I would have created if I would have had more ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/12/21/crayon-physics-deluxe/ It's either really good or really bad that I enjoyed this so much: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe (Ah, SQL92, you've been so good to us with your dynamic query execs.) http://donturn.com/blog/2007/10/10/sql-humor/ On another IA note (can you tell I’m working through my inbox?) it’s time again to start thinking about the 2008 Information Architecture Summit in Miami, Florida on April 10-14 2008. The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for those interested in information architecture. The 2007 IA Summit attracted ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/09/19/get-ready-for-the-2008-information-architecture-summit/ I'm pleased to announce (or remind) that the Information Architecture Institute is accepting applications for the Information Architecture 2007 Progress Grants The Information Architecture Institute (IAI) will award two USD $1,000 Progress Grants for 2007. The purpose of the program is twofold: to encourage researchers and practitioners to investigate IA-specific issues to publicize ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/09/19/information-architecture-institute-progress-grants/ Maureen Kelly over at Boxes and Arrows has a nice article about building Interactive Prototypes with PowerPoint. PowerPoint prototypes are a great way to show someone how the flow of an interaction might work and even better, you can send them the .ppt file to view before or after your ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/08/07/creating-interactive-prototypes-with-powerpoint/ CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visited the VLA as part of Road Trip 2007, his trip around the Southwest. Check out these pictures of the VLA near Socorro, NM. Weird bit: some of the antennas are still analog. Oh my. http://donturn.com/blog/2007/08/01/the-antennas-that-capture-the-universe/ From Junky to Funky (“Sanford & Son” remake with J-Lo?) Runway Moms (far less interesting than when I read it wrong and though it was “Runaway Moms”) Medical Incredible (the crowdsourcing of diagnosing? who needs med school?) Asia Squawk Box (probably a lot funnier when we were worried about Bird Flu) Grow it & ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/06/25/true-tv-show-titles/ If anagrams are fun, then the Internet Anagram Server is more fun. Well, to me. http://donturn.com/blog/2007/06/06/fear-sugar-manna/ I'm in San Jose, California presenting a Works-in-Progress paper at the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Computer-Human Interface (CHI) 2007 conference. I'm showing off some of the interface design issues related to encouraging valid, fluid participation for a community-based internet content filter we're developing at the University of Texas at ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/04/30/rating-voting-ranking-designing-for-collaboration-consensus-at-chi-2007/ I'm predicting 2,500 Flickr photos tagged with chi2007 by Friday morning. What's your guess? Update: Since there are 7,704 photos with the chi2006 tag, I may be underestimating. Update on the Update: As of May 29, there are 3,341 photos with the chi2007 tag. http://donturn.com/blog/2007/04/30/chi-challenge-how-many-photos-tagged-with-chi2007/ Yesterday I saw an interesting exhibit called Listening Post at the San Jose Museum of Art about understanding, or maybe just observing, internet-based communications. Here's the blurb from the project's Web page: “What would 100,000 people chatting on the Internet sound and look like?”... Listening Post analyzes all the text—typed just ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/04/30/listening-post-exhibit-at-the-san-jose-museum-of-art/ By now you've heard the saying "Keep Austin Weird". What you might not have known is who coined the phrase and how it just might actually relate to Austin, Texas. All those questions (and more) can now be (mostly) answered by the man himself, Red Wassenich, who did in fact come ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/04/30/keep-austin-weird-a-guide-to-the-odd-side-of-town/ The journal/magazine Nature has a special issue to celebrate the birthday of Linnaeus, who most think of as originating the idea of large-scale classification to understand the world and normalize scientific research. Carl Linnaeus introduced the systematic classification upon which all subsequent natural history has been built. This Nature web focus ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/04/23/nature-says-happy-300th-birthday-to-linnaeus/ This article in the Austin American Statesman about the University of Texas creating video game archive here in Austin. As you may remember, I was at the kick-off reception for the video game archive a while back and think it holds great promise for insights into the history of video ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/04/19/ut-creates-video-game-archive/ Now this looks really interesting: SI MSI Degree: Social Computing Graduate Program: Social Computing (SC) Specialization Social computing, including online communities, social networking, and user contributed content, has been the darling of Silicon Valley for the past several years. It has also gained currency in library circles, as venues such as library Web ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/04/04/michigan-ischool-creates-social-computing-graduate-program/ Google Desktop for Macintosh. Goodbye Spotlight? http://donturn.com/blog/2007/04/04/google-desktop-for-macintosh/ I'm here at the IA Summit and people are putting up their slides tagged with iasummit07 on slideshare.com. http://donturn.com/blog/2007/03/25/slideshare-and-the-iasummit07/ http://donturn.tumblr.com/: what have I done? http://donturn.com/blog/2007/03/23/tumlbr/ The Austinist has a short, but interesting interview with Don McKellar about his new movie Monkey Warfare. Don is a favorite writer-director-actor from Toronto. You're a fool if you don't watch some his work including: The Red Violin: tracking a violin's path through history with Samuel L. Jackson (but no snakes ... http://donturn.com/blog/2007/03/09/sxsw-monkey-warfares-don-mckellar/ OK Austin, South by SouthWest is here and you're wondering just who all these people in town are. I offer this guide to attendees in homage to Scooby Doo: South by SouthWest Interactive (sxswi) = VelmaSouth by SouthWest Film = FredSouth by SouthWest Music = Shaggy You're welcome. http://donturn.com/blog/2007/03/09/if-sxsw-were-scooby-doo/ Bad news from the Beeb: Coffee 'no boost in the morning'. Sell SBUX now? http://donturn.com/blog/2007/03/08/that-coffee-thing-its-all-in-your-head/