The Genius who lived to merge technology and art and people – you will be missed

  “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They [...]

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October 6, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary  No Comments

Have we side-tracked from the goal of everyman/woman computing?

Note: I have never done this before, but this is a shared post with my amybeachandme.com/blog as it covers information apropos of both blogs. I have edited it a bit for this blog. Studio back together – ready to start creating again! One of the down sides of working with art and technology is that [...]

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January 30, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary  No Comments

My TEDx Interlude

I mentioned I would be attending a conference this week. It was the TEDx conference at Pasadena’s Caltech. The animation above explains, kind of, why I don’t have a bunch of photos. I could leave it at that, but it is not really true. The fact is that in my haste to get ready for [...]

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January 15, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels  No Comments

Part 1: The iPAD iPhone Flash Adobe Apple Controversy – this new media author’s take: A Dangerous Retro Blacktop Paved Hole

Silly me. I had it all wrong. Since the early 1980s, Steve Jobs and Apple have sold their wares under the moniker of “User Friendly,” and I thought they were referring to the fact that everyman (and woman) could make use of a computer to create stuff and to accomplish just about any task – [...]

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May 24, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary  No Comments