Monthly Archives November 2007

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids #3 was fun, packed

I’m a little late posting this, seeing as the event was almost two weeks ago, but I have to say: the third Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids was an awful lot of fun.
It was also well-attended. Some might say a little too well-attended.
Thanks no doubt to some pimping by Torontoist, BlogTO, and Here […]

The In-Between Stuff of Radio Shows

Over at the Adaptive Path blog, Dan Saffer has an interesting post called The In-Between Stuff Matters. It’s about product and interface design, but I think it’s particularly (and maybe unintentionally) relevant to making radio.
[N]ow, with increased processor speeds, new interaction paradigms, and richer interactions possible on most platforms, the in-between stuff–transitions, animations, interaction logic, […]

Why radio?

For some reason today, I was on Wikipedia, looking at the entry for Radio documentary. And I came across this rather lovely quote from Helmut Kopetzky:
Staring red-eyed at the mirror in front of me, having spent another day and half of the night with my computer, I ask myself fundamental questions: Why radio? Why documentary? […]

Miro reaches 1.0

It’s been a long time coming, but Miro (nee Democracy) has finally reached 1.0.
This magical piece of software has almost single-handedly changed the way I watch television.
Congratulations!