Where I really am

Earth, United States of America, New Jersey, Glassboro, Rowan University, Mullica Hall, My Desk, My iMac.

What Does My Twitter Brain Look Like?

- I seem to tweet when I am on vacation or off of work, probably because I like to tweet when I am doing things.

- I appear to use twitter for personal and not professional contacts on the whole.

So what am I saying? (Wordle)

- Use twitter more as a conversation tool, than a blog.

- "Day" and "new" seem to point to focusing on the present.

- I comment on twitter using twitter, meta-use of the platform. I think twitter is very self aware as a network.

Other Networks

The Iaoc Blog. What Did I have to say here?

- Strong focus on "people" and "computers" could relate to my current interest in new media marketing.

- Enjoyed writing about related news topics on IAOC

- Tried to tie some articles to my writing for MDP.

- Found lack of two way communication on blog to be stifling as a writer.

Facebook

- Biggest of all my networks.

- Contacts from all over my life.

- There couldn't possibly be a way to sort that amount of friends out could there? Yes, Nexus

- Nexus successfully broke friends into groups that reflect my life's different networks.

- Facebook itself makes users self define groups to sort newsfeed.

- Nexus shows that it is possible for a computer to define these groups.

- It is like our social DNA.

- As social networking's influence spreads, it is going to need to use functionality that does what the users can not, such as sort contacts.

- Nexus model can be applied to other networks as well... such as twitter.

Building Blocks of our information DNA

Text - Minimax

- Created out of need to write faster, ironic as I type faster than I actually write.

-  Based on using one single line for each letter.

- Many decisions were based off the limitations of fontstruct.

Color - MDP Colors

- My favorite color to use online.

- Tried to develop a palette that looked electronic or like it was glowing.

- Started with the sea foam green, as it looks nautical and retro at the same time.

- Colors are often an afterthought in design, I personally think they should be one of the first things slaved over. Colors are the first thing we see.

I am here, and so are you... because with the web, we are all connected all the time.