Shifting Economies and New Commercial Models in Education
Cengage Learning, one of the largest textbook publisher in the U.S. announced two weeks ago that it would begin renting textbooks to students at discounted rates, Here’s an informative article from the New York Times. And, here are a number of responses from NY Times’ readers. I anticipate this is the first of many adjustments [...]
Texting for Help
The emergency call center located at the Black Hawk county jail in Waterloo, Iowa is the first in the country to accept text messages. Emergency responders then may decide to respond to the text message through the computer interface or may elect to call the respondent directly. Via the The Associated Press: County Police Chief Thomas [...]
UpNext Ups the Ante, NYC
It’s not often that you come across a mapping application that provides equal utility and pleasure in one package. This spring, UpNext managed to give us just that—-Launching the mobile mapping application inspired by its online 3-D map of NYC that made it’s debut over two years ago. In this user-friendly application, curious New York [...]
Big Gaming with Steve Bull, NYC
If you spend enough time trolling the streets of New York for interactive designers, one person or another will lead you to Steve Bull, a gregarious New Yorker and self-professed digital Gepetto. The founder and CEO of Cutlass, Inc and Cellphonia, Bull is a major player in interactive game design or ‘BIG Games’ and has [...]
Reviving Payphone Footprints, NYC
Public payphones are quickly becoming archaic artefacts, relics of a past-life without mobile telephones [side note: so much so that preservations have digitally organized themselves at the Pay Phone Project, a global initiative to document the dying infrastructure; check out their photo gallery of payphones from all seven continents here. Walking down the street in NYC [...]
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