ProphecyBoy

F8 was actually better than the after party so far. The sitar music is better than Thievery Corporation, for sure. #f8 - more on Twitter

CBS in iTunes

After I-can't-even-tell-you how many months, my employer has content in iTunes. Nonetheless, I'm glad it happened before I left. (The designer who laid out those pages? Already at a new job.) I didn't even realize this was happening today until I saw the press release on an Apple news site, ...

When Tabloids Are Not Enough

Continuing today's fine tradition of follow up posts: According to PaidContent, Gawker Stalker Maps has freaked out some celebs. I question, though, that the site "plots them instantly on a map" - as far as I can tell, someone's manually parsing the emails and plotting the data. As of right now ...

Chasing Windmills

I've been watching Chasing Windmills for the past few weeks, and vacillated on how I felt about it, but today's episode cinched my opinion. CW is a daily video blog, but unlike most of what you've probably seen, it's fictional, and shot like a well-made indie film. (The only other ...

Explode your TV Channel

Here are my notes for the here! meeting, most of which we never covered, but that form a geneal outline for how I'd explode a television channel, were I ever granted such powers. Interestingly, after writing all this out, I'm a little less interested in actually doing it. While it's ...

here! update

My meeting at here! turned out to be less of the pitchfest (or even the "give us all your ideas for free" landgrab) than I expected, and more of a job interview - for a job that doesn't exist. I was speaking with someone in marketing and someone in development, ...

here here!

Through a series of nearly inexplicable circumstances (somehow facilitated by margaritas and MySpace), I've got a meeting with some development and marketing folks at here! this Friday to talk about digital media strategy and (possibly) pitch them on developing original online content.[1] I can hear the collective "um...qoui?" The answer is ...

Podcasting and Intimacy

I feel awful for posting about this a week late, but I still feel like I need to say something, so here goes... Last weekend, Richard Bluestein, the man behind Madge Weinstein, the queen of queer podcasting, lost his partner Juan Montealegre to cancer. Until last week, Juan was known only ...

iPod the Senate

UPDATE (1/31/06): Seems like someone else had the same idea - IPac is currently accepting contributions right now. Click the button below to help: --- The EFF is noting a shift in the Broadcast Flag debate in the Senate. It seems that a well-timed gift has caused the Commerce Committee chairman to ...

Steve Jobs makes out like a bandit, but John Lasseter wins the Kingdom

In all the hubbub over the Disney purchase of Pixar (both with today's announcement and last week's rumors), much has been made of Steve Jobs becoming the largest shareholder in Disney, joining the board, and weilding his Applean power over the recently-wayward Mouse. But Defamer gets at what's really going ...

ITP

After mulling it continuously for the better part of two years, I finally broke down and decided - a week before the deadline - to apply to NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. It's a two year graduate program in media technology / social technology / art and technology / etc. ...

Colophon

Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001

Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm currently finishing up my masters at NYU's ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here

I sometimes work at area/code.

Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include Socialbomb, BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners

You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].

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Crazy Blind Date: A Quintet for Human & Computer

The appeal of Crazy Blind Date\ is immediately apparent, and seems custom-designed for busy city folks: “on very short notice we can set you up on quick dates with total strangers at public places like bars and coffee shops. You're not allowed to see their picture or even communicate.” Created ...
March 29th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis 2 Comments

Social Heroes

My thesis has split into two ideas, something which was foreshadowed at the end of my midterm presentation. I mistakenly assumed that one of the ideas would seem obviously better than the other, but that hasn't happened. Rather, I'm stuck with two ideas which I think explore the ideas I'm ...
March 16th 2008
Tags: ITP One Comment

PCBs from Eagle to Production

In this post I'm going to explain how to output files from Eagle PCB in order to send your designs off to be professionally fabbed. There are two major steps before this in the process: creating the electrical schematic, and moving from that schematic to a board layout. I'm not ...
March 14th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis One Comment

Thesis: midterm presentation & playtest

| View | Upload your own ITP Thesis: Midterm presentation (with notes) (PDF) Here's the midterm presentation I just gave in my thesis section (the PDF includes the presenter notes, and is perhaps more comprehensible). I felt like this presentation was a return to form for me - lots of photos, ...

Socialbomb was at ETech

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Socialbomb unit, originally uploaded by doryexmachina. Last week we took Socialbomb to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. We held a BoF session on getting social games away from the keyboard, and ran ...

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