Blogs of Interest
Bad Designs Feb 4,2004
Bad Designs and notes on why they are bad.
Doors of Perception Aug 7,2005
Doors always has some interesting links on design and social innovation. They cover sustainability, health care, social justice, economics, all staring from a design point of view.
Everything I Know Oct 13,2005
Everything comes from Rory Hamilton, who taught at the Royal College of Art's interaction design program. It's a collection of his notes on topics from applying to design school to setting a good project brief to what interaction design is.
Lucas Cueni Feb 9,2006
Lucas Cueni has a blog of various interactive projects, most of which involve multiple physical objects making up a larger image, physical pixel-style.
MobileWhack Jul 9,2004
Rael Dornfest's blog of all things related to mobile computing.
Muniwireless Jul 9,2004
Muniwireless is a blog covering reports on municipal wireless and broadband projects. A worthwhile read if you're interested in how broadband can be useful for civic projects.
Music Thing Blog Jul 22,2005
The Music Thing Blog is a collection of resources and articles on all things related to digital and interactive music systems. If you're interested in interaction design and music, it's worth a read.
Robot Clothes Aug 27,2005
Robot Clothes is James Powderly and Michelle Kempner's company and blog on robotics and wearable technologies. Includes some useful how-to's and interesting projects.
Sketching 06 Jul 6,2006
Hosted by Mike Kuniavsky at the Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan in June 2006, it was a meeting of a handful of microcontroller module developers, teachers, and hardware designers. There was much conversation about what makes good microcontroller hardware, how best to teach it, and what we can do to make some of the various platforms out there more interoperable.
Smart Mobs Jul 9,2004
Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs blog dedicated to subjects stemming from his book of the same name. He and other bloggers report on various social/technology items here.
Tangint Wiki Jul 15,2005
Tangint is a discussion space and resource for tangible computing run by Brygg Ullmer out of Louisiana State. "Tangint is intended to service the international community of researchers, designers, artists, and other practioners in the area of tangible interfaces and (more generally) tangible interaction."
Timbuktu Chronicles Jul 9,2004
Timbuktu Chronicles is "A view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship,technology,practical remedies and other self sustaining activities.".....Emeka Okafor Recent Items of Interest Wireless Internet: Africa "...The wireless Internet has the potential to bridge the digital divide by providing low-cost broadband Internet connectivity to underserved areas and municipalities. Leapfrogging wireless technologies may be deployed rapidly to help foster economic development and workforce productivity and to enable delivery of social-service applications in the areas of e-health, e-education, and e-government.
Treehugger Jul 16,2005
Treehugger is a blog that reports on sustainability issues of all sorts: new alternate power sources, political actions, design-related issues, and more. A decent read if you're interested in physical design and sustainability.