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news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design

news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design

So, I finished my thesis project. It’s portbou1940.com: a hypertext narrative examining the death of German-Jewish social critic, philosopher, and dialectical historian Walter Benjamin. I’ll be working on revising the written thesis this month, and turn it in next month; the official conferral of my masters degree will be in [...]

September 13, 2011 0 comments Read More
the world seems quiet here…

the world seems quiet here…

My blog is currently mostly on hiatus as I complete my master’s degree thesis, but I occasionally pop by with small updates, primarily about the thesis project. As soon as that’s complete, beginning in October/November 2011, expect a massive redesign of positdesign.com. You can still find me on other parts [...]

April 15, 2011 0 comments Read More
strategy + progress

strategy + progress

Welcome to positdesign 2011! Prepare for a major overhaul to this site, and a lot of details on my masters thesis, in upcoming months. For my thesis project, I’ll be describing the death of Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish cultural critic who most people accept committed suicide in Portbou, Spain, in [...]

January 10, 2011 0 comments Read More
coming attractions

coming attractions

I can’t believe it’s November; that my semester is 2/3 over; that it’s been over a month since my last substantial post. My “Multimedia Communication: Principles of Visual Rhetoric” class is AMAZING. I knew it would be, but it’s exceeded my hopes. It’s in so many ways an affirmation of [...]

November 5, 2010 0 comments Read More
Calling all web builders!

Calling all web builders!

I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2010:

October 20, 2010 0 comments Read More
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!

In the last three weeks, my programming class has kept me too busy playing my hand at being Ada to put together a coherent piece on the order of last year’s ALD post. But I’m already planning something all-out for next year. So this one’s a quickie. Much of tech [...]

March 24, 2010 0 comments Read More
ie6 is dead to me

ie6 is dead to me

I wish Boston was hosting a funeral today. Via ie6funeral.com.

March 4, 2010 0 comments Read More
clickthrough-averse

clickthrough-averse

One of my hugest webdesign/usability pet peeves is galleries or slideshows. I just don’t want to have to hit the NEXT arrow 14 times to learn ten pieces of information, or to see twelve pretty pictures. If your click-per rate and my patience have a showdown, I’m closing the tab. [...]

December 17, 2009 0 comments Read More
Programming is just language.

Programming is just language.

Why takes the science out of programming. He says: learning programming is about learning grammar. This is, very literally, language I understand.

September 2, 2009 0 comments Read More
portfolio public (limited time only!)

portfolio public (limited time only!)

My final project (online portfolio), which I have been raving about, is actually online. Fancy that! It only exists on a Harvard University server which will be wiped clean at the end of the semester (approximately the end of May).

Keep in mind it was developed for a class assignment rather than for its intended purpose, and

May 12, 2007 0 comments Read More