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ExpressiveConnections.com – Alpha Launch

Check it out, kids: ExpressiveConnections.com has finally been announced.
Expressive Connections is a network for creative professionals – aimed at aspiring and accomplished writers and artists who are looking to begin or advance in a career utilizing their talent.
The site is in a sort of alpha-mode right now. We think it’s got a pretty solid [...]

IDM #5 Blogs For Learning

Well, we’ve made it to Week 12/16 of the Fall semester here at MSU. And that means, that the fifth and final IDM is due in my Interactive Media I course.
This weeks featured site is Blogs For Learning, an instructional blog for students and teachers that provides, “information and resources about the technical and [...]

Comedy Central is BACK on YouTube!!

Just as we thought we’d actually have to tune in live to Comedy Central to see our favorite shows (ie. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Southpark), Comedy Central and YouTube are now in talks to keep the copyrighted videos on the site. A lot of CC clips have been reposted so [...]

Just A Few Semi-Random Things

Here’s a few things that I think are worth mentioning but don’t necessarily need their own posts.
First, you know ads are going to reach the News Feed of Facebook users any-day now, when you see flyers all over your campus asking students to join the Crest WhiteStrips Facebook group.
Here’s a link to a picture of [...]

IDM #4 RUSTBOY

You should have seen this one coming – it’s the fourth of five IDM(Inspiration Design Model) posts for my “Interactive Media I”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/ course!
This week on the class chopping block: “Rustboy”:http://www.rustboy.com/, a Flash site for the Brian Taylor short film project.

My First Rails (+ HTML & CSS) App: Coming Soon!

So for the last week and a half, I’ve been building a Rails application for my HTML course – Interactive Media I. The “Final Project”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/?page_id=3 for my class is to create a “significant” website by manually coding HTML and CSS, in a small group. Well, we are definitely shooting for “significant.” I’m [...]

IDM #3 Jason Santa Maria

Here it is, the third of five IDM(Inspiration Design Model) posts for my “Interactive Media I”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/ class. This weeks website is “Jason Santa Maria”:http://www.jasonsantamaria.com, a personal weblog/portfolio for a graphic designer in Philly.
UPDATE: Jason has “commented”:http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2006/10/10/class_critique.php on the collection of critiques by our class and I urge you all to read his response. [...]

The Facebook Revolutions

It’s been a few weeks since Facebook first started making _tsunamis_ in the sea of social networking sites. We’ve seen the “emergence of the News Feed”:http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2207967130 (and the massive “backlash”:http://www.somewhatfrank.com/2006/09/facebook_redesi.html that followed), the “implementation of an open admissions”:http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2210227130 policy (not so huge, but still a major area of debate – check out the comments [...]

IDM #2 JUXT Interactive

Well, here is the second of five IDM(Inspiration Design Model) posts for my “Interactive Media I”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/ class. I liked this website a lot less than the first one: “smallTransport”:http://jewlofthelotus.com/articles/2006/09/07/smalltransport-idm, but I didn’t really like that one much either…

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