#haiku is a new little experiment for my Stories In Flight site – a mashup of Twitter and Flickr: The page searches for tweets with the #haiku hashtag and then visualizes the results by searching for each word in Flickr photos. It’s a evolutionary step from FlickrPoet, and while it removes the interactivity, it certainly [...]
In November 1979 – 30 years ago – the Atari 400 and 800 computers went on sale to the public. The Atari 400 and 800 were both based on the 6502 CPU and had a number of custom chips that definitely pushed the envelope in the late 70s and meant that close descendants of these [...]
Ariana Osborne has some great advice about Print-on-Demand projects over on her blog. I can pretty much only say “What she said!” about that post – read the FAQs for your publishing service, proof read the layout, order a proof copy for yourself first… all of that is important… …and then there is her previous [...]
Since we’ve built MapSkip a few years ago now, I’ve been steadily thinking of storytelling, its influence on the web and also the influence of modern technology on storytelling itself. A few days ago I had an idea that was simple enough to experiment with and since I needed a place for the pages, I’ve [...]
Friday morning while I was getting ready to move my bike out for the ride to work, I heard on the radio that there are two men in a boat coming in under the Golden Gate Bridge… from Japan! My first thought was – “Well, that makes my commute look insignificant!” and the second thought [...]