Thesis Up

For writing five pages in a rush, I’m pretty happy with the context. It’s all a work in progress, but the preliminary parts of my thesis project are done and posted on my ITP site. I’m planning on creating an online community for Pro55essing and/or Flash visual programmers to see if “tandem programming,” or programming in which people swap and share code, can yield successful results.

While I probably don’t have a huge audience reading this yet, I’d love to hear from anyone on what they think of the idea. I’ll be presenting it at Monday’s ITP Thesis Pub, but the project will be ongoing through the fall (and possibly spring). One of the issues I have is what domain name to purchase…e-mail me if you’re interested in helping me pick.

A Clock That Cooks Bacon…Only at ITP

Last week I did some product shots for one of Matty Sallin’s projects, the WAKE n’ BACON, for an upcoming magazine article (For those of you wondering, it’s the wooden alarm clock to the right, and yes, it really cooks bacon!). I’m happy to report that the bacon smelled good and was cooked to perfection…and to think, the people back home wonder what students do at my school.

Social Facts on Podcast

Abe Burmeister has just posted some trial podcasts of Clay Shirky’s Social Facts class off of his site (boy, does my voice sound weird to me when I hear it!). Listening to it, I’ve realized that it’s a bit difficult to know what’s going on without context. I only listened to part2.mp3, where the class continued a discussion on how ITP would decide where $1 million in grant funds would go. Who knows, maybe Rushkoff’s persuasion class is next.

UPDATE: Looks like more of Abe’s class podcasts are up.