by Daniele Rossi | Jul 31, 2011 | blog, comics, creativity, illustration
I had the pleasure of speaking to a grade 4 class on the other side of the country via Skype. My how times have changed! The topic was illustration, comics, cartooning and animation. I told them how lucky they were to be living in the Internet age where anyone can be...
by Daniele Rossi | Jun 30, 2011 | creativity, news, social media
It is the day after my return from this year’s PAB conference in the nation’s capital and as expected, it did not disappoint. I’ve attended PAB every year since 2007 and always return even more energized to create content. I keep returning because...
by Daniele Rossi | Jun 23, 2011 | creativity, social media, user experience
I just heard about Pottermore, a new website coming soon by J.K. Rowling which I can pretty much see as becoming a great case study in bringing reading to the digital world. That is, aside from just offering an ebook riddled with DRM. I was a Harry Potter fanatic back...
by Daniele Rossi | Apr 22, 2011 | creativity, social media
No, not those angry birds. For the past four days, a robin has been repeatedly flying into my window. It would return back to a nearby tree and try again. Over and over. For hours. I’ve seen birds do something like this a few times years ago but never to my...
by Daniele Rossi | Mar 17, 2011 | blog, creativity
Are we really living in a short attention span world? I’m convinced it’s really only a matter of context. I think this idea of shorter attention spans only relates to digital media. People still read long books which seem to be getting longer, we sit in...
by Daniele Rossi | Mar 10, 2011 | creativity, social media
Here are two clever ways to explain the somewhat abstract idea of blogging (and social media in general, of course) using real, physical methods (what a concept!). The first is described in Paper Blogging. Teaching students how to blog using a bulletin board (to pin...
