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Comment on Wiimote Whiteboard compared to vendor option by kinderbecca's smartboard Bookmarks on Delicious

kinderbecca's smartboard Bookmarks on Delicious — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:24:19 +0000

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Comment on The Naked Generation by larissa85's Bookmarks on Delicious

larissa85's Bookmarks on Delicious — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:03:37 +0000

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Comment on Iterating CHI Student Design Competition by Josh Coe

Josh Coe — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:26:39 +0000

As a 2010 design competition finalist, I agree that I had less time to experience the week event as I stressed about last-minute poster printing, dredged up half-remembered facts, fretted about what I was being judged on (especially after realizing mid-way through presenting that the judges hadn’t read the project papers or abstracts). I was sympathetically told that I had been “fifth place”, just missing being able to present in front of the community. I would have loved to have been on a panel about process, as my team used very unorthodox guerrilla testing techniques during our urban social gaming experiments that I think the community would have liked to hear.

Comment on 18 years by Jeffrey Poehlmann

Jeffrey Poehlmann — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:40:24 +0000

Although I virtually never read blog posts, I’m always gratified when I manage to catch one from the Makice family’s trove. You’re a special couple, very deserving of one another (and your progeny) and I truly expect the next 18 years to be as lovely, full of promise and surprises as the past 18 have been. All the best.

Comment on 18 years by Jenny Hertel

Jenny Hertel — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:23:02 +0000

Sorry I’m late…but Happy Anniversary to you both! I hope you have many, many more together

Comment on 18 years by Tim Roesser

Tim Roesser — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:55:18 +0000

You are a speical couple. I have been privledged to know Kevin 35 years and he still amazes me. I have always been honored to be his friend and it makes me deeply happy to know he found a soul to share his lufr with in you.

Comment on Make me!! by Connect First « The BABS Blog

Connect First « The BABS Blog — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:08:27 +0000

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Comment on M Writing This On my iPad by Greg

Greg — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:50:39 +0000

That’s the thing, right? Even a small keyboard (and speaking of ergonomics, I way prefer the big curved ergo/natural keyboards for keeping RSI in check) basically means you’re lugging around an underpowered laptop.

No question it’s better for media consumption and even creation in bed (typing on a laptop in bed even on a full-sized laptop keyboard is something I’ve always hated, too), but to me that’s not a game-changer.

It’s laptops for me, for now. Bad ergonomics coupled with relatively low processing power just doesn’t make the rest of the bells and whistles attractive enough.

Comment on M Writing This On my iPad by Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:58:34 +0000

I’ll lug my BT keyboard around with me and just set my iPad in a business card holder. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a tablet and its a bit clunky to switch the keyboard on and off, but its perfect for classes more than an hour because I don’t need to take out a power cord since the battery is so insane.

Comment on Wiimote Whiteboard compared to vendor option by Ale

Ale — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:29:20 +0000

I want share with you a veru powerfull software to be used with the wiimote whiteboard

http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/

Ardesia enables you to make colored free-hand annotations on your computer screen, record it and share on the network.

This is especially useful when making presentations, to highlight things or point out things of interest.

The tool facilitates the online presentations and demos showing in real time your computer screen to anyone in the network.

Ardesia is XInput-Aware, so if you have a mouse, a graphic tablet, a touch screen, a wiimote whiteboard or a commercial whiteboard; you can draw lines with different strength, select color, erase things and draw arrows.

You can free-hand draw geometrical shapes using the shape recognizer, insert text with the keyboard and highlight screen areas. You can draw upon the desktop or select an image as background.

Comment on Igniting Community by Daniel Poynter

Daniel Poynter — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:01:45 +0000

Thank you for writing this follow-up post, and for presenting at Indy’s Ignite. Carter’s was great! I think his was the audience favorite, and it certainly reminded me how important it is to encourage children’s inventiveness. =)

Comment on Igniting Community by Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:10:46 +0000

This is great. Quite an inventor.

Comment on Born to Boogie by TeresaR

TeresaR — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:26:34 +0000

I miss M’s beautiful and contagious smile! Boy, she looks exactly like Kevin in some of those shots.

We’ve been listening to the woodcocks peenting lately and watching them do the swirly flight thing, but I’d never seen them doing the boogie on the ground before (although we managed to scare one off from the ground while hiking one time).

Comment on Things to do in Denmark when you’re dead III by Debby

Debby — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:33:20 +0000

We travelled there with our three daughters. We found all informations on amsterdam.info. Amsterdam it is a very beautiful town and the museums are great. But with the exchange rate as it is, we found it very expensive. Some museums were closed for refurbishment, but the views of the canals and hi-lights such as the Anne Frank House and the Artis Zoo (an old-fashioned place with a great array of animals kept in somewhat cramped conditions) are very memorable. The food is awful unless you want to spend a great deal of money and there is a cynical attitude to tourists that is very out of date (e.g. tapas marinaded pork was one slice of fried bacon on 1/2 a bread roll). We stayed in the serviceable but expensive Singel Hotel which was okay but its close proximity to a red light area made going out with the children awkward and there really was nothing charming or liberated about hurrying past the ladies in the windows. The same is true of the legal dope selling 'coffee houses'. The whole bicycle thing is interesting. It is almost, but not quite, the eco-city of the future. Some cyclists are quite anarchic and we spent a fair bit of time dodging pavement mounted bad-tempered riders. Overall verdict was we were glad we'd been but wouldn't go again as it feels over priced, out of date and sleazy - not the cutting edge hip family friendly town it's sold as.

Comment on A brief history of microblogging by Tweets that mention Twitter - A brief history of microblogging | BlogSchmog -- Topsy.com

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:50:49 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by twittes, Sarunas, Giacomo Vacca, Ludwik Stawowy, Jordan Elpern-Waxman and others. Jordan Elpern-Waxman said: A brilliant social history of the path to microblogging, from IRC to IM status messages to test messaging: http://bit.ly/4kEtzS [...]

Comment on Wiimote Whiteboard compared to vendor option by Technology Conference 2009 - Wii Love Learning

Technology Conference 2009 - Wii Love Learning — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:20:24 +0000

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Comment on Make me!! by Na-me'

Na-me' — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:20:15 +0000

So sweet……………..it ‘s really hard for people(young especially older ones) to say sorry and to make others feel sorry for something………the note was so simple..so innocent…yet so special!!!!!VERY HEARTWARMING…..thanks for posting that wonderful story of you and your son…God bless

Comment on Snowman in Hell by gerri

gerri — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:40:37 +0000

oh how i miss those calvin and hobbes! what an excellent snowman.

Comment on Corporatation for Congress by A.F. Cook

A.F. Cook — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:40:43 +0000

The Corporation as Person thing needs to be stopped — enough of this multi-decade charade, already!

Please contact me ASAP re: Independents Convention.

Comment on How the Web Sees You by Kevin Makice

Kevin Makice — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:23:49 +0000

Thanks.

The point of the project was really about how much interpretation and choice at the data crunching level plays a role in outcome, but the visuals are so compelling I wish it were that simple to understand my interaction like a biologist would a gene.

Comment on How the Web Sees You by Found in my inbox: batteries, personas, and greeting cards [Issue 1.2.3.10] - ScribeSheet

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:46:37 +0000

[...] connection is a bit tenuous here. I stumbled onto this real cool project at MIT (Personas) through a blog written by Kevin Makice, whom many folks in Central Indiana have become very familiar with. This project shows you how the [...]

Comment on How the Web Sees You by Prabhakar Koduri

Prabhakar Koduri — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:57:47 +0000

Kevin – I stumbled across your blog via Google Alert and I am glad I did. This is a fantastic post and its highlights some important issues regarding data mining and its uses and abuses. What I find amazing is how similar the profile images look to those of gene profiles. Could this be a visualization of our digital DNAs?

Comment on Gifts Accepted by Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:51:07 +0000

I “solved” that problem by stopping birthday parties when BR was about 6 yrs old. They don’t miss them at all (I think the parties were as stressful for them as they were for me). Prior to 2002, we only invited the 3 other families in our playgroup, so it was never a huge accumulation of plastic crap. And luckily, both my parents and dh’s parents believe in birthday money (which all go into the savings account).

Comment on Gifts Accepted by Pumpkinbear

Pumpkinbear — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:36:52 +0000

I HATE it when I’m not allowed to bring a gift to a kid’s birthday party. Not only do I genuinely enjoy making something nice for the little people important to my daughters, but I think birthday parties are where the lessons about giving thoughtfully and receiving graciously really have time to sink in.

Whenever we’re allowed to bring a present to a kid’s birthday party, I make the kid something nice, and then the girl who’s invited has a choice. She can 1) buy the child a present with money she’s earned herself doing chores (usually a buck or two which I take her to Learning Treasures to spend); or 2) make the child a present (usually a book or very elaborate picture); or 3) give the child something of her own (usually a toy dinosaur or book).

So far that’s what works really well for us. In two years, who knows?

Comment on Gifts Accepted by Kevin Makice

Kevin Makice — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:04:51 +0000

That robot has a permanent place of honor on the top of the bookshelf closest to the bed. We look at it every night.