Arturo invited a bunch of folks from ITP up to his place in the country over the weekend. We had a splendid time camping, swimming, and communing with nature and each other. Here are some of my favorite photos; the full set on Flickr.

I headed back to ITP on Wednesday for the launch of Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus. Catherine White and I are starting a book club to discuss the book in a couple weeks, join the Google Group here (and tell me who you are if I don’t know you in real life) and here [...]

I went to DoTank:Brooklyn’s DIY Urban Agriculture Skillshare at the Change You Want To See Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Carina Molnar of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities taught us how to compost with worms in a plastic bin, Aurash Khawarzad of PPS.org showed us how to make seed bombs, and Ted Ullrich demonstrated how [...]

My friend and former ITP classmate, Carolina Vallejo’s project, Design for the First World needs help with funding on Kickstarter and with spreading the word around the internets. In Carolina’s own words: My ITP thesis project Design for the First World, is a competition with a motto: The Rest Saving the West. I’m proposing to [...]

Networked coffee mugs provide an update to the old 10th-cup-free punch-card customer loyalty program. Our highly modular system allows any coffee shop to use one of our mug readers, link it to their name and physical location, and get started immediately with the program. Shops will sell RFID-enabled stickers at a low cost to customers [...]