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My name is Conrad Lisco, and this is my blog, where I post odds and ends, things and thoughts.
I work at R/GA in the Mobile & Emerging Platforms group. I'm most interested in the intersection of technology and culture. Addicted to location-based services. Live in Chinatown and love sneakers and street art.
Opinions are my own.
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. Salman Khan has produced over 1,100 videos on YouTube covering everything from basic math to statistics, biology and physics.
Millions of people (about 8MM) around the world have tuned into his channel for free instruction, and in a way that can be accessed on-demand at a student's own pace. According to Khan, 70,000 students visit each month and watch 35,000 videos a day, with 2 million minutes of instructional video delivered in the past week.
Other non-profit groups have started distributing off-line versions of his library to rural and underserved areas in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It’s amazing how the Internet is helping to democratize education. No longer will proximity to “good” schools and deep pockets prevent people (mostly in developing worlds) from learning.
Other educational video destinations:
Mag+, a joint project by Bonnier and BERG, is a digital magazine concept and represents what magazines could be like in the future. The concept focuses on the essence of story-telling -- “high-quality” writing and “stunning imagery.” As the Kindle continues to gain momentum and Apple prepares to launch some tablet-like object, this prototype is very timely.
Wired Magazine is also thinking about the future of print media, and created this iTablet concept.
Man, you gotta love these videos! The series, created by BBHLabs, demonstrates the benefits of Google Chrome. Every creation is built by hand, filmed in camera, with no special effects added. Even the music is played and recoreded live on set.
BBH and BBHLabs are great storytellers, and the creators of “The Man Who Walked Around The World,” a killer video for Johnny Walker. This series for Chrome is another great example, showing us that it’s all about honesty, openness and invention. And as it should be (with Google), the product is the hero, and they’ve celebrated that in a very “Googley” way.
The films also work as a longer single film of around 4 minutes, where the 8 (7 films & an intro) films are merged together. And they’ve also designed "annotations" on into the experience. These are effectively hyperlinks to other films embedded into the film itself - like roll-over hotspots with links behind them. They make YouTube more interactive. So the transition device between films (the 'notice board') is based on annotations.
Needless to say, I love these.
Skål is Norwegian for bowl and is pronounced [sko:l]. This [wooden] bowl sits on the table and a range of physical objects can be placed in it. When an object is placed in the bowl related media is played back on the TV. Skål lets you control all kinds of digital media; movie-clips, YouTube channels, Flickr photo streams, home videos, online radio and more.
I can see Nintendo jumping on technology like this...think about the Wii...
Design School Confidential showcases ‘extraordinary’ class projects compiled from design schools around the world.
The "Digital Communities" category will honor important achievements by digital communities well as innovative artistic approaches towards web-based communities. This category focuses attention on the wide-ranging social and artistic impact of the Internet as well as on the latest developments in the fields of social software, ubiquitous computing, mobile communications and p2p production. Special attention goes to community-related “net.art”. "Digital Communities" spotlights bold and inspired innovations impacting human coexistence, bridging the geographical as well as gender-based digital divide and cultural conflicts, sustaining cultural diversity and the freedom of artistic expression or creating outstanding social software and enhancing accessibility of technological-social infrastructure.
Who is going to be the Michelangelo of our [digital] time?
GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool that shows about 11,000 ‘good morning’ tweets over a 24 hour period.
