Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: August 2005


I might get into trouble for this, but this kind of thing bugs me. Steve Garfield is a videoblogger (or ‘vlogger’) who’s another member of the Blogging at Berkman group over at Harvard. A couple of weeks ago, Steve was interviewed by E-Media, “Austria’s leading magazine about internet, high-tech and multimedia”, and the interview went […]

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So for various reasons, my brain has been moving further and further from web development and closer and closer to storytelling. This is fitting, seeing as how I’ll be starting classes in Cambridge in three weeks, but it’s problematic since I’m also feverishly trying to cram in all the stuff I want to do here […]

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This is undoubtedly an optical illusion, but it’s so cool to have even a slight hope for something like this… A photo of two peculiar dragon-shaped objects taken from a plane flying over Tibet’s Himalayas piqued many users’ interest when displayed on a Chinese website. The photographer is an amateur. On June 22, 2004, the […]

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I gotta say, traveloregon.com is one hot piece of web design. And how cool would the Oregon Shakespeare Festival have to be? I mean, seriously? Othello among the pines? Badass.

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There’s an interesting piece in The New York Times today on Relying on Video Game Sequels. The article states that Electronic Arts, one of the largest game companies out there, is suffering a sales slump which might be attributed to something Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey calls “franchise fatigue”. Basically, if I bought Madden 2003, […]

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