Memes* have become one of the major modes of online communication; up there with blogging, twitter, and Facebook (see Reddit and it’s 1 billion page views a month). Unfortunately, as an image-based medium, they are not terribly accessible for users with low vision. To consume images online, these users
The quality of computer generated voices is getting really good. This voice from The Acapela Group sounds very life like and can even sound happy or sad. Does anyone know of any other high quality computer generated voices?
Amazing. Another disruptive production from the man who told pundits they were hurting America and who helped rally 200k+ people show up and say, “Hey, stop acting so crazy.” The fact that this debate was possible is a testament to the democratization of media and the crowd funding power of
Apple makes some of the most accessible products out there. VoiceOver has won awards for improving accessibility for the visually impaired. They even provide tools so developers can easily integrate VoiceOver into their apps. But VoiceOver, like other accessibility tools such as screen readers and OCR are not the best
I’m losing my sight, and there is not much I can do to prevent it. What I can do is use the time I do have to prepare for my eventual blindness. The way I see it, it’s kinda like building a fallout shelter. I’m investing the
Image courtesy Shanning Wan. Uptokens are a way of giving someone an up vote–ala Reddit– in real life. I thought it was a mildly clever idea, but I had no clue how or even if people would use it. So I built a first pass at a product using
Vulture Magazine ranked all of Pixar’s movies in preparation for the release of Brave. I disagree with almost all of it. So I’m writing my own, and adding in Brave for good measure. 13. Cars 2 12. Brave (painfully disappointing) 11. Cars 10. Finding Nemo 9. Bugs Life
The NYtimes wrote another surprisingly insensitive piece relating to women and silicon valley. You can click through to read it.
This is part of an ongoing conversation I have with my girlfriend as well as a response to a recent op-ed in the New York Times: The Flight From Conversation. The crux of the argument is that technology and always being connected is killing real conversation, and even as we
The debate between Dead Tree books and ebooks has been waged since before the first Kindle was released, and I’m not going to be able to convince anyone one way or the other. I’ll just add one more point to the debate. Accessibility. I have Stargardt’s desease,
As we are eagerly awaiting tech for augmented reality, the tools already exist to merge another of our senses discreetly and completely. Headphones. Headphones? Yes, headphones, well more specifically hearing aids. Right now there is a big gap in technology between hearing aids and the shit you buy from best
Klout.com is a very, very interesting company. Not only as a place to work, but of what they might be able to do in the next few years. What now looks like a Social advertising company can in the next few years evolve into the reputation mechanic for the