I was at some Macalester something, and folks were talking about how Facebook killed the Spotlight. I also did some Googling of myself during this recent job search to try and find out what I could find about myself. I’m sure that folks are continuously talking about the breaking down of boundaries between public/private, and I don’t think I’m another alarmist (or even all that concerned, apparently, after seeing all the public profiles of myself I could find with a google search). Anyhow, the Personas Project from MIT is pretty cool, and pretty pretty.

From the description:

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name.

“If you work with youth, you know that they are interacting online. They are creating and posting content and remixing, commenting on, and mashing up content created by others. New Web 2.0 tools, which encompass sites allowing for collaborative, dynamic, user generated content, are quickly becoming ubiquitous in everyday life.”

Myself and a few other CTEPs worked for the past few months on an article for the Youth Media Reporter, a professional journal for the youth media field. We focused on how new technology tools are being integrated into youth programming and what capacity building needs are still there.

Its definitely a topic I am interested in looking at in the future. You can read the full article here. (http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2009/08/integrating_web_20_into_youth.html)

One of three videos in a series for an article in the Youth Media Reporter.

One of three videos in a series for an article in the Youth Media Reporter.

One of three videos in a series for an article in the Youth Media Reporter.

Mahi and I cook and eat dinner in 1 minute.

For my last episode with the Set It Up crew, I produced a segment about the show and why I wanted to work with the crew.

The first hapless adventure of Helping Hand.

Mahi and I produced this piece about Axman Surplus for the St. Paul Newsdesk. Somewhere along the line, some cheesey transitions worked their way in…

We were supposed to make these quarterly. I think we made 3 or 4. I used this one as an excuse to make terrible motion graphics using FinalCut and LiveType.