I just listened to Eurydice Aroney’s radio piece, “The Dribble Down Effect” – (listen at http://www.thirdcoastfestival.com – Re:Sound #44)
The story is a “mockumentary” done in the style of a radio documentary you might hear as a 30-minute special on NPR. While parts were definitely funny, it didn’t seem to be presented as a slapstick humorous production (a la Chris Guest’s movies).
Instead, this was speculative fiction reported on in a very serious manner, peppered with the sound collages you come to expect from well-engineered radio stories. This particular story was about childcare in the near future. Robots watch kids (cheaper than university-educated babysitters), children have implants that provide biodata like “I’m hungry,” and society faces all sorts of questions about class differences, feminism, and the ever-present abundance of overbearing parents.
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I am currently ramping up to reinvigorate my blog / online presence / personal brand / social media strategy, etc. etc.
What you are seeing on my blog today is a temporary placeholder until I can officially "relaunch."
I've recently moved to the East Coast (Somerville, MA) and have been doing some Big Thinking about where I'm going with my work, life, etc. Part of this is a renewed emphasis on ego-building online. It's easier now than ever, and I'm really exhausted by seeing uninteresting people have all the fun.
However, as an antidote to my bad habits of taking on too many low-value projects and passive aggressively making the last 20% of ongoing projects drag on and on, I have been trying to implement Cal Newport's idea of a completion-centric productivity.
Read More Post a comment (2)I’m back! Switched servers, but managed to get all the content over in one piece.
FINALLY.
… and somehow, this is very unsatisfying.
Time to reiterate.
So. I went to SxSW-Interactive 2006 and got a little inspired.
Watch
this space for iterationone
- Live – Observe – Collect – share
- Wonder – Question – Hypothesis – share
- Tinker – Explore – Research – Play – Prototype – Test – share
- Build – Answer – Proposition – Understanding – share
- Iterate – share
Astute readers may have noticed my site’s been up and down (mostly down) for over a week.
I honestly have simply not had the manhours available to focus on getting it back up.
With SxSW looming, I figured it was time to up its priority.
It should be good to go by then. Even if it means switching servers and doing crazy redirects.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-makower/hybrids-and-cleaner-vehic_b_15394.html
I bought a toyota prius a couple weekends ago.
I was stunned and secretly giddy to see all those hybrid commercials during the Super Bowl.
I’m getting around 42 miles per gallon in the city. Not shabby. Not earth-saving, either.
The only true hybrid: (Gas + Electric) + V(Leg Power) where V is the earth saving multiplier.
I will get out of Austin at least once per month this year.
Here is an indyjunior map of my travels past and future for 2006. This will be an ever-evolving map.
http://www.davidnunez.com/locate (note: links to page containing flash file) Link is broken.
What would a travel log look like as a Drupal module? Could GoogleMaps mash in somehow?
Clearly, I am spending some time redesigning my site.
In order to think through these changes, I’ve been looking at a lot of other peoples’ websites for inspiration. It is a fine line between “inspired by” and “stolen from,” but there is a lot of really good stuff out there.
