Michelle Madigan, a reporter for NBC’s Dateline, was outed by hackers at the annual DefCon gathering for refusing to cover the event openly. Her hidden-camera tactics go against the tradition of DefCon being neutral ground for all hackers, even the seedy ones and the federal agents interested in nabbing them. Predictably, there is YouTube of the incident.
Keep Independent Film Cameras Rolling in NYC
Today is the last day to write to to Julianne Cho at jcho@film.nyc.gov about the proposed restrictions on filming in New York City. There is a funny video by Olde English with cameos by agents from Improv Everywhere.
Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’
A couple of blog widgets landed on my radar today. MineKey claims to leverage individual reader behavior with the collective actions of all readers to help shape personalized content. RollSense doesn’t adapt to the reader, but it does examine up to 100 RSS feeds to find the best recent work to include in a sidebar. Since I wasn’t getting a lot of value out of other recommender tools, I installed them both on BlogSchmog.
in vino similitudas
When we look at the things we design, we too often see the object instead of its relationship to the world. Taking a cue from how enthusiasts appreciate a glass of wine, design enthusiasts can learn to examine the things we create in the context of the environmental conditions in which we build and others interact. A tool is defined by the properties users bring to the interaction as much as the circumstances of its creation.
What happens when you eat spaghetti from a cup.
Archie: I’m going to drink the spaghetti.