Category Archives: Ideas

CakePHP Alternative

By Jeff | Published: March 19, 2010
I have started looking into PHP libraries that might help with the task of building the new World Series of ‘Tubing site.  I have tried to get into CakePHP, but the number of keywords and magic spells that you need to know frustrates me to no end.  This says something about where I am in [...]
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HousingMaps save location

By Jeff | Published: January 5, 2010
I’m looking for an apartment again, which means that I am spending a lot of time on housingmaps.com. It’s a great site. Much easier then my Earthify. The one problem is that it doesn’t remember the location and zoom level of the Google Map when you bookmark a search. This is annoying because part of [...]
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SXSW Panels

By Jeff | Published: August 19, 2009
Voting just opened for 2 panels that I submitted for this years South by Southwest – one in the Film category and one in the Interactive category.  If you have a minute, pretty please create an account (it takes 1 minute) on the PanelPicker site, and then give my submissions the thumbs up.  They will [...]
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Church Music

By Jeff | Published: May 12, 2009
For Praying@Home, we needed some ambience in the prayer booth, so I grabbed a bunch of MIDI organ music, imported it into GarageBand, and brought that clunky old music into the FUTURE AGE.  Now you can have the album, SWITCHED ON JESUS, by the Institute for Faith-Based Technology, for your own prayer-time listening. All Hail [...]
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Crowded Rhizome Proposal

By Jeff | Published: March 24, 2009
Project Description Crowded is an montage audio program similar to radio shows like This American Life, The Moth, or the productions of Joe Frank.  What makes it unique is that all of the material is is made up of segments of audio requested from and submitted by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk site in return [...]
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This Crowdsourced Life

By Jeff | Published: January 14, 2009
This Crowdsourced Life is a radio program made entirely by Mechanical Turk workers.  Go to the HIT page to find out more.
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low-res jeff

By Jeff | Published: November 1, 2008
For Halloween this year, I was in a pinch.  I was going to the Apes & Androids concert (which was amazing), and costumes were required.  So the night before Halloween, I decided that I was going to use the large-format printer that we have at Eyebeam from Invisible Threads to make a “low-res me” costume.  [...]
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inbox victory

By Jeff | Published: September 30, 2008
Commencement Speaking Invite, Fanmail, Honorary Degrees, and TV award nominations VICTORY!!!
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