Marc's Voice

3rd week of July ‘10 blogging

Our summer internship program has decided to rename itself.

We’re now known as FYI (”Futuristic Young Ideas”) and we’re:

- producing a book, a DVD and a web site (with a store)

- producing live events and learning what it takes to put on and organize events

- not allowing ANY paper products in our program.  Everything is being done on-line with:

- Gmail

- Google docs

- PBworks

- PeopleAggregator

R buttons and the open marketplace - Listenlog - Emancipay - the Train goes the other way

Harry Pekar - a local hometown hero

Revitalizing the Commons

Tornado now available

More on OpenStack

New models for designing games, products and places = plants

Using consumer identities for business interaction

They should have had a contest and give a reward to the 500,000,000th member

To give you an idea of how things work here in Cleveland, the Dental school at Case’s Medical school is adopting nine families to develop a holistic approach to dental health. Over 35% of families in the area NEVER receive ANY dental care, so Case’s Dental school wants to study the affects of comparing proper dental care to those without.  AWESOME!  Big shoutout to Dean Jerry Goldberg and to Assoc Dean/Head of Research Aaron Weinberg!

I’m speaking at the Northeast Ohio Useability Professional’s Assoc next meeting on Aug. 17th

Recording Industry vs. The People: RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!
“all in all, for a 3 year period, they spent around $64,000,000 in legal and investigative expenses to recover around $1,361,000. Shrewd.”

open data doesn’t empower communities

Alan Kay - User Interface: a personal view

Muriel Cooper R.I.P. - inventing interactive - AIGA bio

OpenLayers 3.0, Northeast Ohio Green Map