Yet another interesting entry over on WorldChanging, this time penned by Alex Steffen. The post, “Future-Making” (Link), touches on what “reBang” is really all about now.

Initially I came up with the name and the idea mostly in the thought that industrial designers would help to build a virtual world and it would be tied to the real one. Considering my background in product design, CAD and rapid-prototyping, this wasn’t really much of a stretch (especially if you know that reading William Gibson’s collection of short stories in “Burning Chrome” had a major impact on my life). What I’ve since gained, spending time these last few years exploring videogames and virtual spaces, is Continue reading →

WorldChanging’s Jon Lebkowsky has raised what I consider to be an important issue in his post, “Freedome to Connect 2: Fat Pipe, Always On….!” (Link). Many of you have seen me go off on how blatant disregard for intellectual property rights can affect the independent voices disproportionately to the entrenched corporations. Well, here we have another potentially dangerous side-effect of the two diametrically-opposed camps waging war: the corporations influencing IP laws and distorting their intent, and “free everything” people who Continue reading →

As part of my transition to No Feed, I’m attempting to “flush” some of those old posts that were ignored by Technorati and others out to the net so that they still show up in a keyword search (outside of Google, which seems to capture everything). I’m unsure if my efforts will work to be honest. I’ve tried once already, but my Bloglines test reader and a Technorati search are indicating failure. I’m going to assume that I didn’t leave the modification in place long enough for the bots to do their work, so this is the last post for today and we’ll see if I can get those old posts out there.

Apologies in advance if I somehow flood anyone with unwanted stuff.

When I saw this over on Inhabitat (Link), I thought it was a joke. Then I seemed to recall something about this or something similar elsewhere. Now I don’t know. But it does get me thinking. That’s a good thing on a stormy weekend.

This is from “The Hand Up Project” description on Continue reading →

There’s an excellent post titled “When Design is a Matter of Life or Death” written by Michael Bierut over on Design Observer (Link) telling the story of the Citicorp Center Tower, it’s flawed design, and what was done to correct a monumental mistake.

What a great read for a designer at the end of a long work week. For anyone. It’s always nice to keep things in perspective and this piece certainly goes a long way toward providing us all with some assistance in doing just that.