Done!

Grad school. Check.

It still didn’t really set in until Sunday, when I actually got more than three hours of sleep. Of course, now comes the housecleaning. CodeTree is only getting bigger and bigger–much larger than Beyond Second in the same amount of time. I’m getting a good amount of feedback, and plan on adding a bunch of features. Plus I’m hoping that Dave and I can reuse some of the code for Beyond Second when we redesign it next year.

I just put up a video recording of my thesis presentation here along with all of the documentation. Thanks to Mo for catching it on an iSight on such short notice.

Speaking of which, has anyone else ever watched them self give a presentation on video? I sure do fidget a lot. I seem to fumble over the words at first, but then find some flow. Critiques at the end came from Doug Rushkoff, Dan Shiffman, Clay Shirky, and Alex Reinart.

I promised my mother I’d attend my first college graduation for her (skipped HACC and was jetlagged from Rome during Penn State’s). Too bad I didn’t know it would end up being at Shea Stadium since Washington Square Park is being renovated. Why not Yankee Stadium? Why not Central Park, like I voted?

My sister-in-law had me sit through her graduating class of roughly 1,000 students…I’m looking forward to inviting her to mine, only I believe NYU’s has roughly 29,000 more names to be called.

Providing Tools and Enabling Members of CodeTree

This paper for Clay Shirky’s Social Facts class was written while I was in the thick of finals at ITP, and looking back it seems more anecdotal of my experiences with Beyond Second and CodeTree.

Do architects program the members of a social network, or does the network program the architect? Is the author the true creator of social software, or does that title belong to the user base? These are questions I ask myself as I have just launched CodeTree, my latest endeavor into the social networking world. Whichever the case, I realize that I will be continuing this dance with this new social software from a unique perspective—that of the architect, and that, regardless of my original inspiration, the project will find a theme to call its own…Read More.