Ooh look! Photos of someone else’s family vacation!
Hail to the Tweet
Twitter members responded quickly and playfully to Joe the Plumber, even if most didn’t know who was the man behind the meme.
Blog Action Day 2008
Almost half the world—over 3 billion people—live on less than $2.50 a day. On October 15, over 4,000 bloggers will be writing about why that is important.
Community Weekend reviews
It was a mixed bag of news this week on both the Bloomington Startup Weekend and CHI fronts, but the good far outweighed the bad. The sad news for my design team came in the form of mixed reviews on our own submission, one of just 40 international submissions by students willing to take on the wicked problem of designing for people experiencing homelessness. I include our three reviews with rebuttal analysis of each.
IU sends Five to CHI … Again.
For the second consecutive year, it appears the IU School of Informatics will send five team to Florence, Italy to compete in the next round of the CHI Student Design Competition. Now in the fifth year of the event, IU has won the competition twice, placed in the top four six times, and sent a total of 19 teams to this major conference for human-computer interaction.