AdCastic! show #2 is ready.? Listen to podcast. In this show, I critique two brands: Visa?and Nike.??Both brands currently have campaigns running that aim to unite the world in the spirit of sport – Visa with the Olympics and Nike with a worldwide 10K race. ?The creative I critique and review can be viewed?on each brand?s?website [...]

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I attended Podcamp Seattle a couple weeks ago and listened to one or two presentations that mentioned the value of engagement and how it is becoming more relevant to advertising and marketing online. ?Living in a society that is completely saturated by ads and marketing messages everywhere we go, it is no longer enough for [...]

Some things you should just plain read because of their historical and subcultural value. The cover of Jack Kerouac?s On the Road reads, ?The novel that defined a generation.? What was it that defined such a generation? The wanderer that’s missing a piece of their soul. The main characters search the [...]

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One of the key insights I’ve learned from our COM597 class is that while the podcast audience is growing, it’s a slow growth. Podcasting hasn’t seen the meteoric rise of other new media tools like blogging or social networking sites. Yet even without a mass audience, podcasting can be just as effective for building a [...]

This is my last chance to blog for credit this quarter. I got so busy working on podcasts and videos in the last few weeks that blogging had to take second place, and that translated into not blogging at all. Last night I finished the first and second versions of our group podcast [...]

The number of posts I made (or didn’t) this quarter was pathetic. Rather than float some excuses as to why, suffice it to say it was a combination of this being my final class before I graduate?and even more debilitating was my schedule at work. If a cool breeze passes by in the next week [...]

Special Note: Yes, this is satire. (Originally created in February 2007 for my undergraduate college newspaper, snubbed, but published online anyway on 2-26-07 under one of my now defunct pseudonyms) Background: At the time there was a lot of talk from the political right of the US in favor of bombing Iran. This meme would continue [...]

I learned a lot in this class. But, I did not learn what I thought I would. I thought I would learn all about the technical aspects of podcasting and indeed, I ultimately did. However, I learned that on my own through much painful trial and error. What I did learn, and this was unexpected, [...]

The final piece of writing I owe for my ?Podcasting In Business? class is a proposal for my personal podcast project, The Armchair Architect. I am at a bit of a loss for how to write this, however, since I would never seriously propose such a project. The lowest scores on my evaluation sheets from [...]

The Washington Wine Show-’One bottle at a Time” fills a particular void in the growing online space for wine and social media. That void is for Washington wine. There are more than 25 wine podcasts out there, but there is no other podcast that specifically covers Washington wine. And, there is no other wine podcast [...]

The Dads-to-be Podcast offers tips and advice for soon-to-be fathers. The goal is to help future dads help their partners through pregnancy and prepare for the baby’s arrival. Show details Audience: Dads-to-be, future parents Genre: Educational Frequency of publication: Every other week — This schedule will draw more subscribers. It is also a feasible schedule based on the [...]

I don’t have much to say about digital technology this weekend, having spent most of the last three days at the Folklife Festival. Except for a conspicously out-of-place (but very popular) Wii-Fit booth, there wasn’t a whole lot at the festival that reminded me that we live in a digital age. For hours [...]

Several weeks ago the PiB class was discussing the critical elements that make a successful podcast, and someone commented that “Content is everything. Audio quality doesn’t matter if the content is great.” I’m don’t necessarily agree. Poor audio quality can turn a great podcast into a great podcast that no one can bear listening to. [...]

About 6 years ago I sat in a sales conference at AOL, where one of the guest speakers discussed all of the ?crazy new? advertising opportunities we?d be able to sell in the coming years.? I remember being blown away at the concept of someone?s walking past a store and receiving a relevant ad from [...]

This is the final post of this class. I learned a lot from this class. 1. Research Research is a powerful tool that i learned from this class. Through research, I can find history of the the topics, i can find out what others have done regarding to the topics, i can collect all the information regarding to [...]

Last Tuesday i gave my classmates the presenation of Why say yes to high tech. It was a reflection to an article i read. Because my research topic is about Cell Phone, so i chose a topic related to cell phone. The presentation went smoothly thanks to my classmates participations. The research in the article is about Mobile [...]

If you’re like me and prefer the commercials over the game, YouTube’s “adblitz” channel may be your savior today. YouTube promises to publish Super Bowl commercials “the minute they air on Feb 7th.” And to entice you to visit the channel, after the game is over you can vote for your favorite(s) — until Valentine’s [...]

It sounds like there is another Twitter hack making its way ’round today. If you think your account has been hacked — for example, you see unexpected Tweets from your account — then this is what you should do: Change your password (if you can). Log in, change your password from the password tab under account settings. [...]

Let me preface this post by reminding folks that IANAL (I am not a lawyer). The U.S. government policy on photographs and copyright is pretty straightfoward: photos produced by federal employees as part of their job responsibilities are “not subject to copyright in the United States and there are no U.S. copyright restrictions on reproduction, derivative [...]

I loved Paul Mason?s idea to travel throughout Kenya to investigate the use of mobile phones.? Frankly the statistics are staggering ? 50% of the country is considered to be living in poverty, yet 80% of them have a mobile phone.? I?m very curious to know how these people pay for their phones, and if [...]

In my last class in this program, about Podcasting, we explored the need for regulation of podcasts.? Where the internet advertising industry (IAB) has come up with a clearly defined set of rules to help advertisers produce online ads, there is no similar governing body for the world of podcasting.? It seems similar in this [...]

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? ?From the journal entries, I have been learning and observing many different aspect of interactive media design from the readings, guest speaker, and class lectures. I really enjoy doing these assignments because they forced me to review what I learned from the class and then organize my thought each week. After writing the journal [...]

Winter has only just begun and I’m already finding myself longing for warm weather. In the meantime here is a compilation with a sunny disposition that should help us cope until spring thaw. Download ZIP file (link only available for two weeks). Tracklisting: 1. Saint Etienne :: Spring (Air France Remix) 2. Air France :: GBG Belongs to Us 3. [...]

My top ten records of 2009: 1. Animal Collective :: Merriweather Post Pavillion 2. Grizzly Bear :: Veckatimest 3. Phoenix :: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 4. Fever Ray :: S/T 5. Junior Boys :: Begone Dull Care 6. jj :: jj No. 2 7. Mountains :: Choral 8. Flaming Lips :: Embryonic 9. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart :: S/T 10. Atlas Sound :: [...]

The reflective journals forced me to go beyond just reading the assigned books and listening to the guest speakers.? They gave me the opportunity to think critically about the information I absorbed and how it related to my interactions with games, Web sites, brands, and everyday objects.? ? I have learned from Krug and Norman to [...]

Before enrolling in Theories and Practice of Interactivity, interaction design was not a foreign concept, but it wasn?t something to which I gave a whole lot of thought or analysis. Sure, there were gadgets, software and devices that I found either extremely user-friendly, or extremely frustrating. But I?d never applied the kinds of theory [...]

“The Design of Everyday Things” is not only the title of our reading assignment, it’s also a concept that many people take for granted, or don’t put that much thought into at all. You’d probably be shocked if you knew the amount of time and research that went into designing something as simple as [...]

?? “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald Norman points out the frustration of using product in our daily life, and the relationship between users and design. It also takes many examples to describe problems of designs and how to avoid them. Therefore, I really enjoy this reading because it reminds me of many problems [...]

I was not in class for the discussion on branding, but did read the New York Times article and the guest speaker?s PowerPoint slides. ? I read the article first and found some of the notes I jotted down were similar to ideas expressed in the guest speakers slides, which made me think I was on the [...]

Hot on the heels of our discussion last week about the future of journalism comes this article from the Sunday Seattle Times: Regulators: is blogging lobbying? The upshot, online political activists could be required to publicly disclose their finances.? However, non-traditional journalistic bloggers, whose topics range from news reporting to advocacy, and even fundraising, may face the [...]

When asked to briefly sum up my experience in Digital Democracy this quarter and compare it to my expectations, I must admit I’m a little bit challenged.? To begin with, did I have a preconceived notion?? I suppose I did.? Would we discuss and analyze current political discourse?? Would we explore the use of the [...]

Nope not even journalism. It is no secret that the time honored tradition of print journalism is going the way of the American Bison circa 1890? nearly extinct. Now in its death throes, we were asked to read a series of articles focusing on the decline of newspapers and what can be done about it. I?d [...]

I think it’s great that people like A-ron can take their cultural identity (or lack thereof) and turn it into a successful brand. Even though t-shirts with ironic slogans or cryptic phrases might not be my cup of tea, if people are willing to pay for them, more power to the creators. Branding a t-shirt [...]

The main reason, is that there is no walled garden. Half the things I say are almost inside jokes directed to a specific audience. Therefore, the amount of posting I was doing on my previous blog cannot be brought to this blog because there is a lot of previously developed (no longer publicly [...]