http://www.richardcarey.net Product Development, Consulting & Professional Services Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:05:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="388" caption="Click on the image twice for a full size view."][/caption] It's Friday and time for an art attack. Whichever art you practice the act of making art means doing things because they feel right. Not from an intellectual construct, but a flow from idea to expression to ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/11/21/art-attack/ Is it safer "on the edge" in economically turbulent times like these? In his recent blog post Innovate or Wither - Personal Strategy for Times of Change, my colleague Lee Wilson asserts that in times of rapid change and market disruption, "...the cutting edge is the safest place to be." Although he ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/11/19/safer-on-the-edge/ In this video from the 2008 Dust or Magic Institute, Warren Buckleitner talks about how children's portable computing devices are changing childhood and comes to some insightful conclusions. Born the same year as BF Skinner’s teaching machine (1958), Warren Buckleitner has been reviewing children’s technology products now for over half ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/11/07/are-computers-changing-childhood/ Tanya Van Court, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Nickelodeon's Noggin, ParentsConnect and Nick Jr.com, presents Nick's new standards-based early childhood learning site, myNOGGIN. Designed for preschoolers through first graders, myNOGGIN is an educational service that provides the same high quality, Noggin learning experience that children love and parents trust, ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/11/05/whats-in-your-noggin/ Mark William Hansen, who leads product development at Lego, talks about their transition from a toy company to developers and publishers of an immersive 3D virtual world set to launch in early 2009. For more on Lego Universe read the Reuters story Virtual World is Lego's Latest Brick Trick and visit ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/11/04/from-plastic-to-pixels-lego-goes-virtual/ Debra Lieberman, Ph.D talked about using interactive games to improve health knowledge, skills and behaviors this morning at the eighth annual Dust or Magic conference. Health Games Research is an $8.25 million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is directed by Debra and supports research to enhance the ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/11/03/using-interactive-games-to-improve-health/ Since I started using Hulu and more recently learned about the open-source video aggregation software Miro and the video sharing plugin Kaltura, it seemed to me that Tivo's days were numbered. Evidently I'm not the only one. In her Halloween post on the Wired Blog Network, Meghan Keane observes "the future ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/11/02/tivo-is-dead-long-live-tivo/ WordPress -- the open-source content management system that runs this site and millions of others around the world -- is almost infinitely extensible, which was the intention of the development team from the beginning. One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the core code as light and fast ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/10/30/top-10-wordpress-plugins/ At the Dow Jones Media & Money conference last week, a panel of executives representing digital media developers, investors and advertisers debated whether it's possible to start or grow an advertising-supported web service at a time when even huge corporations are challenged to survive. With the market down yet again ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/10/24/is-it-time-to-start-a-new-business/ In a few weeks this blog will be coming to you live from Dust or Magic, the exclusive conference of interactive toy designers, developers, manufacturers and critics held each Fall in Lambertsville, NJ, under the auspices of Children's Technology Review. I'll be videotaping all of the presentations for the Dust or ... http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/10/18/dust-or-magic-2008/