Posts Tagged ‘web’

Blank Banners — See Me Speak at TWAB 2008

In Articles on 10 April 2008 tagged conferences, cultural resistance, game design, GD, ID, interaction design, lectures, mobile, play, presentations, Provo, The Web and Beyond 2008, TWAB 2008, TWAB08, web with 2 comments

In 1966 Provo took to the streets of Amsterdam with blank protest banners.1 The use of rousing slogans had been outlawed by the city’s mayor. The ‘protesters’ were arrested. Provo achieved their goal of making the authorities look silly by playing at protesting. They took existing rules and decided to play within them, to see [...]

Google Reader Improvements

In Articles on 24 January 2007 tagged applications, feeds, Google, Google Reader, reviews, RSS, web with 1 comment

I hadn’t touched Google Reader since taking a brief look at its initial launch in October 2005. I’m now using it as my primary reader, having grown tired of Rojo‘s poor performance and frequent interface overhauls. There’s a few things that have really improved since that first release. I’ll sum them up briefly here: Uncluttered, [...]