Free Hugs (Abrazos Gratis), Change Your World with Real Social Connections
August 12, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Human contact, the ultimate social technology can change the world, one at a time.
Shift your attitude and shift the world. 
Visualizing Pressible
August 10, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada. Using Processing, he created this animation, showing an evolving system over the span of a year.
About his work: “I’ll be working with data from Pressible, a network of sites published by Teachers College students, faculty and staff. I’m interested in looking at the growth of this system, and in examining intertextuality between content in a network with a broad range of research interests.”
Juan Enriquez, Big Reboot: Financial Crisis to Evolutionary Tech
June 4, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Rebooting toward a trajectory of a different species: from Homo Sapiens to evolutionary hominid. (Of course it’s a double-edged sword) (18 min, Feb 2009)
“Synthetic Life” Design, Craig Venter (TED)
June 4, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Craig Venter and team create the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. (18 min)
When the iPad Meets Velcro
May 28, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
The iPad in theoretical context
Cultural Analytics: High-performance Computing and the Humanities
May 21, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Lev Manovich, UC San Diego, delivers a paradigm on the quantitative end in the humanities, Cultural Analytics. The project is Visualizing Patterns in Databases of Cultural Images and Video. The focus is on automatic analysis of visual and media culture: video games, mass media, visual art and cinema.
The intent is analyzing cultural documents through information visualization, currently limited to the study of formal qualities of historical works of Art.
Sinek: How leaders inspire action
May 17, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” For example, Apple starts with why it does what it does, progresses through how it’s different, and then talks about what it offers.
TEDxNYED: Jeff Jarvis Talk on Reciprocal Learning
May 10, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Jeff Jarvis, author of “What Would Google Do?”, blogs about media and news.
Here Jeff presents his perspective on redefining our interactive learning approaches.
(16 min)