OK, this is big. I’ve mentioned Processing a few times in the past weeks. It’s pretty cool, I just wish I had a reason to use it. Well, this week it seems that John Resig has given us all a birthday present: Processing.js, a version of Processing that runs in JavaScript. This has the potential to supplant Flash, we’ll see. I certainly find Processing itself pretty compelling.
Between this, the coming CSS web fonts, and newer/faster machines, web standards are on the cusp of a significant shift.
A brief, but very nice interview with Brad Bird at Gigaom last month. Among many bits of wisdom: “there are some [things] that only need to be good enough to not break the spell.”
We are still working on the Feautor site that Mary brought into being during her sabbatical. It is coming along nicely. It even offers video embedding! Check out this video I found there.
Way back at the beginning of this primary season my mom kept telling me that the only reason Obama was able to raise money was that Republicans were giving him money. Leaving aside the question of why that would be so bad, it is worth noting that the shoe is now firmly on the other foot. Joe Felice shares this interesting video about Rush L’s “Operation Chaos” and the impact it had cushioning Hillary’s wins and losses.
Mary just handed me Here Comes Everybody and I hope I get a chance to read it soon. Meanwhile, in this video Clay Shirky discusses where we all get the time to participate in a web 2.0 culture. His notion: we are giving up just a little of our addiction to TV sitcoms, the opiate of the masses, for a bit of participatory media. Not a bad thesis.
