Welcome Wiffiti

I love my new Wiffiti screen....LOVE. Being friends with Jayners has its rewards. Wiffiti is like a giant text messager screen. I wish I could download it to my phone (Jayners, can I download it to my phone? Can I make it my screen saver?) To make me happy text me starting with @pixeldfly then your message to 25622.

Example: If I wanted to say hi to all you all - I'd write @pixeldfly Hi all you all and then send it to 25622.

DMHj says he reads my blog. Actually he did reference it as if he had read it...yet, I am suspect.

Quick shout out to JohnnyG...just cause. We've been in the trenches this past week - and we're winning the war. Mostly because we realize where the real battles need to occur. I appreciate having someone else take a look around the "process" and say WTF?

Impact

MySpace was already entering into the political arena - or at least politicians were...so naturally Microsoft has now corralled them into their own barn...MySpace Impact. The more this content becomes organized, the more suspect I become. I hate that I'm becoming that cynical...but as I'm in the middle of a pitch that is becoming more and more about nothing sub stantial...the more disillusioned my mindset tends to get.

What fuels me...
The SW team has been struggling with creating a navigation system for a whole bunch of ideas around a singular concept. Mostly the struggle has been an environmental one - meaning, is the site an environment (literally). I stumbled across "dubois meets fugger" and was immediately engaged...discovering new navigation systems and ways of creating a feeling of flight between content offerings is what fuels me lately (pun intended, SWs).

Empress of Style

I keep coming across some excellent sites...this one happens to be HP's latest The Computer is Personal Again - with Vera Wang (their first featured woman, btw).

It's a fantastic use of interactivity and illustration. As I'm currently working on a pitch that is trying to be a bit second life - a bit MTV - it's inspiring to see such a clean treatment - one that truly tells a story and isn't cool for the sake of coolness...which, I have to tell you lately seems to be the snack of the day.

Screaming man
I am in love with this site. I don't know what it is about really - but I very much like making the head scream out butterflies.

http://www.kahrashin.com/

User-generated content - v. 3.0

All the hoopla surrounding keeping Sanjaya on American Idol would normally not register with me (not a fan of the show) - until I began to see the parallel between lonelygirl15 and marketing companies infiltration of user-generated content for their own means.

For those not aware - Vote for the Worst and Howard Stern are asking listeners/watchers, etc. to vote for American Idol contestant Sanjaya - because as VftW puts it:

"American Idol is not about singing at all, it's about making good reality TV and enjoying the cheesy, guilty pleasure of watching bad singing. We agree that a fish out of water is entertaining, and we want to acknowledge this fact by encouraging people help the amusing antagonists stick around. VFTW sees keeping these contestants around as a golden opportunity to make a more entertaining show."

Apparently Sanjaya fits the bill this time around...for Howard I'd say it's more about F-ing with the producers.

What does this mean for user-generated content?

More later....

Almost opening day...

Shilo sent this out the other day....the world just gets a little bigger...the idea of riding the T while watching Sox highlights is pretty sweet.

"Apple today announced it will be offering Major League Baseball video highlights for the 2007 season on the iTunes store. MLB video on iTunes will include a daily 25 minute "MLB.com Daily Rewind" highlight show and two weekly "Games of the Week," featuring full versions of the best games from the National and American Leagues. Customers will be able to download individual episodes of "MLB.com Daily Rewind" and each "Game of the Week" for $1.99, or purchase a Multi-Pass for a month of Daily Rewind shows for $7.99 or a Season Pass for every "Game of the Week" for $19.99."