One of my favorite designers-with-blogs Todd Dominey has weighed in with his take on the iPod mini. As always, interesting reading, and, yeah, he’s just about right. The iPod mini is overpriced for its target – but now there’s talk of an HP-branded iPod hybrid, which could be interesting. Will it be the same price? The same form factor? Apple-compatible? What will those HP fellas unveil? And what will it be called? hPod? (Insert appropriate groans here.)
Elsewhere in the blogosphere, John Gruber of Daring Fireball provides some insight on why GarageBand is worth getting excited about, and the PowerPage provides an interesting comparison of GarageBand versus Soundtrack. GarageBand will be added to my software collection eventually, if only because Soundtrack doesn’t support MIDI. I find myself wondering if GarageBand can read Soundtrack loops and vice versa. (I don’t see why they wouldn’t be, but I’m not getting my hopes up just yet.)
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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