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I have been blogging about digital technology’s impact on culture and our lives since 2007. I post when inspiration strikes as I’m working on various projects.
Experience-based design
I began reading Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton, and so far, after 40+ pages, I'm enjoying it immensley and learning a lot. It's about the importance of designing something (a product, website, building, team, whatever) "in the wild" instead of in...
Plurk experiment- join me!
Plurk, a Twitter clone, has received a lot of buzz. I like how its website has an illustrative design to it :) Speaking of which, I'm inviting you to join me in an experiment with the same ideas as my (long finished) TwitterSpud experiment last year. I created Plurk...
Notes from Jeff Smith interview
I’m a huge fan of Jeff Smith and his comic/graphic novel, Bone . I had the pleasure and honour of meeting him a few years ago at the Silver Snail here in Toronto and his autographed issue 3 of Bone is one of my treasured items (see left). Jeff was friendly and...
Doodle Association Game
I’ve had this site in my bookmarks for a long while and thought it’s about time I blogged about it. Kevin Cornell and his buddy, Kim, invented this cool collaborative drawing game. Oh, I made that sound so dry and scientific. They gave it a cooler name, “The Doodle...
Designed by acceptable social conventions
In JK Rowling's wizarding world, wizards have the ability of teleportation. During an online Q&A with fans, Rowling was asked if there was any way that could prevent wizards from apparating into other people homes unannounced. Her reply was that it was socially...
About Me – the comic
I transformed my About Myself page into a comic book! The idea just popped into my head as I was looking to offer something more creative than the usual body of text. The page flipping is a WordPress plugin called Page Flip . It works with jpgs you upload, sort, and...
X02 is sexy and useful
My jaw dropped when I saw the concept designs for the X02 -- the follow up to the, you guessed it, X0. This is the $180 $100 laptop for children in developing countries. THAT is exactly what I mean by designing usable products. See the photo of the kid holding the...
Fantastic storytelling sample
I just saw an ad that was posted on somebody's blog that made me want to blog about it myself! You know your video truly is viral when someone writes something like that. So I'm on Twitter and see a tweet by Chris Brogan (who knows how to use Twitter properly)...
BrightKite a hit at PAB2008?
The latest social media darling buzzing around Twitter is BrightKite. Well, among my Twitter friends anyway. First let me explain that a good chunk of the people I follow on Twitter are fellow podcasters who I met at PodCamp Toronto and/or Podcasters Across Borders....
Send a message after you friend someone
Now that Facebook has pretty much become MySpace (no thanks to Super Wall), I keep getting friend requests from people I don’t know. While trying to keep the social in “social media”, I always first reply with a message before accepting or denying. Hi there! Thanks...
Breaking the right social media rules
On a recent episode of his excellent Media Driving podcast, Jay Moonah talked about something that I’ve been pondering about for a while; how come nothing bad happens to Apple because they don’t blog, podcast, etc.? Jay also asks the question about Seth Godin blogging...
Welcome to danielerossi.ca 3.0
It's been a long, long time (in Internet time) since I've blogged. Reason being is I've set myself in overdrive in WordPress-ising this site (and what a learning experience that was!). Reason being: my branding changed. danielerossi.ca started out as simply an url...
Moo cards in a Godiva tin!
Here's a sweet discovery (if you pardon the pun). Godiva tins make great holders for Moo cards! Starbucks have similar tins but you have to distort them a bit in order to make the Moo cards fit. The Godiva tins are a little longer than the cards but widthwise, they...
A year later, Twitter is still great!
Describing the benefits of Twitter can be difficult. Lately, however, I've been stumbling upon fantastic explanations which live up to Twitter's inconspicuous usefulness. If you're still scratching your head on figuring out how twittering what you're doing can be...
PodCamp Toronto 2008
PodCamp Toronto 2008 has come and gone and it didn't not disappoint. All my expectations were surpassed. I learned a lot, met up with a few old friends and made new ones. Best of all, I came out of it with A LOT of ideas for my podcasts and future ones, too I won't go...
Technique vs. Technology
PodCamp Toronto 2008 was just as fantastic as last year's. I have a lot of things to write about however for now I want to direct your attention to an interview of me by John Meadows of his brilliant On The Log podcast (which looks into the future from a rear view...
Another painting finished
I've uploaded the final set of progress photos of the paintings I'm working on. You'll see them on my Flickr set called Paintings in Progress. The reddish one is complete (the one in the photo above). The blueish one will take a while. Check out the photos to see why.
SpudCast #19 – All About You
SpudCast number nineteen is up. Best of all, it's short! The main theme of today's show is be begging and pleading you to send in comments and tell me about yourself :) Also, a friend drops by to teach us Spanish and I give a brief mention of the upcoming PodCamp...
Improv comic #4 is up
Improv comic #4 is up. You can see it here. Once again, I was in over my head with responsibilities and I missed my own deadline that I set for completing this one! Anywhoo, it's here! And it's short! I asked for a wedding faux pas and a song. The result...?
Sketchy Adventures episode… 2
Sorry about the over large video. I've had an impromptu epsiode of Sketchy Adventures tonight on Ustream. Nothing too riveting. I found out I can't draw :P Ok seriously, it's a short show because, well, I didn't have enough time. Next time for sure. My apologies for...