Pennant is a visually-appealing iPad application that allows exploration of six decades of Major League Baseball games. Even in its early form, it is worth the $5 asking price to any baseball fan.
TED Conversations
Conversations will take three forms (Questions, Ideas, and Debates) and have the option to be tied to up to 10 video talks. The posts will also include an important setting: a time limit.
Crowdsourced Crowds
Hysterical Hoosiers, an initiative to brainstorm creative fan chants for Indiana University basketball games, is off to a good start. But can we avoid f*&#ing is up.
When James Lipton Interviews Me
James Lipton closes every Inside the Actor’s Studio interview by asking the guest ten questions, derived from those asked by Bernard Pivot. I pretend he posed them to me.
A Quick Look at Songwriting
Five Year Mission is an Indiana band writing songs inspired by Star Trek. They were the subject of an HCI/d course research assignment on music and music culture.
A Troll Case Study
Courtney Stanton posted some thoughts in a blog post. 900 comments later, she had an interesting Ignite talk about the nature of Trolls.
Empathy and Diversity
Political forums are constructed on actor networks. As technology allows us to re-think how we govern, we also have to balance the value of expertise, diversity, and the structure of our networks to allow for both information flow and behavior change.