Class images  http://www.flickr.com/photos/12790940@N08/4318705147/

What enthusiasm for a subject matter looks like.  Inspiring!  Of course it couldn't be the presenter...?

Post a link to your Flickr.com account with a self portrait.

Describe how you currently use design or will use it in a future career.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Post an example & link to your personal Flickr.com account with supporting image.

Take a moment to watch the present become the past.
It already looks odd to see a child pretending to be entertained by such a slow mode of information delivery.

I must admit, I’m tired of commercial interests exploiting artists so they can get “exposure.”  From a purely business perspective, the artist is providing content for the businesses to make money.  In most cases, it is to create a platform for advertising which goes to the business owner and NOT the artists.
Then we pay for this “privilege” of supporting the business venture.

Advertising, marketing, and promotions work, but I don’t know many artists, or galleries for that matter, that effectively promote their art.  Coca-Cola spent 2.6 billion dollars on advertising in 2006 and will pay millions of dollars for 30 seconds of ad time during the Super Bowl to reach over 1 billion viewers globally and they still struggle to grow their business.  Why do artists fall for the false pretense that simply getting a picture of their work into public will lead to sales?

For most artists, advertising is wasted money and not a wise business expense.  Most of us should pursue marketing opportunities, and we should continually promote ourselves, but once again I see very few artists who effectively promote their business.  Yes “Business!”  If you want to sell your art work, you are in business and should think like a business person and not hoping that getting “exposure,” is going to sell work.  The only business succeeding when the word “exposure” is used is the person collecting your entry fee! 

I’ve witnessed over and over businesses who will spend thousands of dollars on catering or landscaping and then expect the artists to give an image or place a piece for free OR worse, pay a fee.  Why do we pay to place work in exhibitions or get “exposure?!!!!”

My plea, at least be aware of what you’re doing.  You are paying for experience and not exposure.  Believe it or not, any successful business does not rely on the “stumble factor,” of hopefully the right person walking by and seeing this amazing work that they just have to buy.  Home Depot recognizes that one of their greatest losses in sales is people not able to easily pay for products.  Lines at cash registers or limited number of cashiers literally leads to missed sales.  So we think by placing a piece of art in landscaping or the lobby of an office building is going to get us “exposure,” and sell the art.  Geez!

Once you’ve grown tired of paying for your experience, I’d encourage you to start approaching your art like a business and make wise decisions to sell your work.

 

Frisco carving a name for itself in public art

9:20 AM Wed, Jul 22, 2009 | Permalink Valerie Wigglesworth/Reporter    Bio |  E-mail  |  News tips

Transparency is the new objectivity

Excellent entry on David Weinberger's blog, Joho the Blog!

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/

Transparency pdf

In creating a social network, what insights did you get about the business of web 2.0?

Michael Rappa has an excellent article on the topic of internet business models and links to interviews with industry leaders.

Check it out!

http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html

Jimmy Wales with Charlie Rose interview.

Watch and comment.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/8513

I've found that research, similar to class discussions, effective communication and group work are left to the students to intuitively discover on their own.  For some reason these skills are not taught within the classroom or included in curriculum.

These aptitudes are the foundation for higher learning and I would argue, should not be left as chance occurences within the classroom.

Here is my effort to capture the steps to research.  Click Here.

Copyright

Creative Commons details

Creative Commons synopsis

Larry Lessig

List the best entry proposed during group presentations.

Briefly explain your choice.

Howard Rheingold is developing the collaboratory that will redefine pedagogy, education and communication utilizing emerging media.

http://socialmediaclassroom.com/

http://www.brand-image.com/#/data/en/brandimage-brand-experience-around-the-world.php

Observation as part of the Design Process: Soho, New York, NY

NSF Grants to Help Create Next-Generation Web

Machines May be Capable of Processes Resembling Deductive Reasoning

Computer scientists at UT Dallas have received $550,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop next-generation Web technology intended to enhance capabilities for everything from online scientific research to electronic social networking.

The researchers’ work concerns what’s known as the semantic Web, a smarter Web in which online content will be machine-understandable. Then computers will be able to process the meaning of words and phrases – and the thoughts they express – rather than simply searching for keywords and phrases.

Machines would then be able to relate one thought to others, processing knowledge – not just text – using processes similar to deductive reasoning and inference. That should produce better search results and the ability to navigate through the Web in a much more sophisticated way, enabling people to take fuller advantage of the abundance of information that’s online.

“Our research will not only advance the state of the art in semantic Web technologies but also address security challenges that arise as content searches become more advanced,” said Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, the principal investigator for the project and a professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas.

Semantic Web technology is emerging as a crucial enabling technology for knowledge management, information integration, social networking and other applications, she added, noting that Tim Berners-Lee, a professor at MIT who’s credited with inventing the World Wide Web, has said that machine-understandable Web pages are key to making the Web more useful.

UT Dallas researchers have conducted extensive research on creating semantic Web technology and ensuring that it’s secure, and Thuraisingham’s latest book is titled Building Trustworthy Semantic Webs. She also teaches a graduate course on the topic, and she and her colleagues have introduced graduate courses on other aspects of semantic Web technologies and on an emerging technology known as cloud computing.

Her co-investigators on the two three-year NSF grants are fellow computer science faculty Latifur Khan, Murat Kantarcioglu and Vincent Ng.

Members of the UT Dallas team are also working on semantic Web research funded by agencies such as the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. In addition, they’re collaborating with Raytheon Co. on creating semantic Web technology that can find and analyze visual information.

“There’s a lot of emphasis on developing security technologies for Web 2.0, which is basically the Web as we know it today,” Dr. Khan said, “but we are looking ahead to Web 3.0, as the Web will exist several years from now. And semantic Web technology is expected to be a key part of that.”

Cybersecurity and semantic Web research projects have burgeoned at UT Dallas in the past two years with funding from not only NSF, IARPA and Raytheon but also the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and NASA, among others.

“We are also focusing on introducing novel courses on highly innovative topics and winning additional education grants from various federal agencies,” Thuraisingham added. “Our next step is to release a number of open-source software tools for both semantic Web security and knowledge discovery within the next year.”

Each group submit a comprehensive list of features for the collaborative learning space.

One posting per group, be sure to list all group members.

Links to different sites or blogs are acceptable.

Most teams avoid the storming stage which inhibits their ability to communicate effectively.

See Tuckman for details of his model of group development.

Tuckman

Describe how the class can collaborate using the current tools created.

Using only 144 characters, describe the process in your group's proto-type design.

Read the assigned article and explore the relationship between design and innovation.

Using only 144 characters (twitter) describe your personal or group objective for the class project.

Does the 1-9-90 rule affect digital collaboration?

Read about Jakob Nielsen and his internet user observation.

Click here to view.

Read the following article to view what innovation by design looks like.

Shai Agassi is changing the world with an idea.

Click here to view Shai Agassi article in Wired magazine.

Briefly describe your best learning experience.

Add your entry by commenting here.

A Hugh Macleod representation of the computer industry

posted on his blog at  http://www.gapingvoid.com/

             Change the world or go home.

                 Why not think big?

http://www.cracked.com/article_15657_world-warcraft-world-10-ways-online-gaming-will-change-future.html

submitted by Travis Odom

To view current content on the EE screen follow the link:

UTD EE Screen content, go to the EE ppt link

Our goal is to create content that maximizes the platform.

When creation occurs as a group process it can be difficult.
How was your experience?

Brian Powyszynski wants to tell you and he has started a group to explore applications.

Check out the group:  http://groups.google.com/group/wtf-is-gestalt

Give a brief comment/observation about the speaker who presented before you.

What is Design Thinking?