Category Archives: ITP

Traceroute Viz

By Steve | Published: 10/05/2010
Live Demo I began by identifying the 24 sites I frequent the most. I hoped by running a traceroute on the same site 12 times, I would begin to uncover distinct alternative routes travelled by the packets. Unfortunately, my resulting data didn’t reveal any alternative routes. I suppose that within the time period that I [...]
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Information Sources

By Steve | Published: 09/20/2010
As preparation for some more serious assignments down the road, I was tasked with exploring the availability of datasets both formatted and unformatted. Here are some of my findings. White Glove tracking (formatted) Tracking the position of Michael Jackson’s white glove within the video frame (640×480) during the nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. [...]
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Dev Testing on Device

By Steve | Published: 03/09/2010
I finally got around to setting up my provisioning profile so that I could begin testing apps on my own iPhone. I threw together this app to make sure everything was working.
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SyncStory

By Steve | Published: 03/08/2010
Brief Description SyncStory is an effort to create a text adventure/choose your own adventure (CYOA) using Twitter as the plumbing. The branching story structure is developed by prompting the reader to choose the next action. With each 140-character event, the reader must select one of two choices, which then propels the story forward. Try it [...]
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Story Writing, 160 Characters at a Time

By Steve | Published: 02/18/2010
Twitter is still reinventing the way we communicate. At 140 characters per tweet, it is so easy, and somewhat mindless to broadcast a message to the world (or at least your followers). The common way we view these short messages is in list form which maintains our perception of each tweet being independent of the [...]
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