Archive for September, 2009

Beautiful Twitter Visualization

// September 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Stuff

GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.

Dave Gray on Game Usage in the Workplace

// September 23rd, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Stuff

Dave Gray presented some core concepts surrounding a book he’ll be publishing soon. Check out the video I took of the presentation. Unfortunately it cuts out after 45 minutes or so at which point Dave gets into the concept of co-evolution in a knowledge working environment and then actual usage of gaming in facilitation/ideation environments.

The image to the left is courtesy of Aaron Williamson over at Shift and Share. His take on the session at – http://shiftandshare.com/?p=115

I’ve put this video up really quickly so that people who couldn’t attend could get a glimpse of what they missed so I’ve skimped on a lot of the context. If anybody wants me to delve into it, just ask for it in the comments section. My apologies for the amount of buffering you’ll have to do.

Dave Gray – Knowledge Games @ OCAD from Jonathan Litwack on Vimeo.

5 Reasons Why I Moved Back to Wordpress

// September 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Stuff

Ok… I’ve gone the Custom build route, the Wordpress route, the Drupal route, and now back to the Wordpress route.

Why did I end up sticking with Wordpress?

  1. MUCH better selection of themes – for those of you that remember what this site used to look like, I hope you agree
  2. When you install it, even after moving from testing to production server, it just works. No need to set up cron jobs and the like, no need to set up workflows. It’s good to go out of the box
  3. Unlike some of my PHP developer friends like Ashok Modi (@btmash) and Stephen Scholtz (@stephenscholtz) I am not in a position to leverage Drupal to its full potential and do all the fun things I intended to do with it
  4. There’s far less work to do to get SEO friendly URLs
  5. I don’t have as much time to post content and therefore rely on whatever support my iPhone offers and there’s just too many WordPress plugins that work seamlessly with the iPhone