Redesign
As a birthday present to myself, I’m finally launching a redesign of maxcutler.com. Read More…
A Return to Blogging
It’s been almost six months since my last blog post, but I hope less than six days until my next one. I’ve put off several blog post topics until I finished a site redesign that I’ve been struggling with since July, but decided to stop waiting and just start writing again. Maybe one of the upcoming posts will be about the redesign, but I’m going to start with a recap of what I’ve been up to lately.
Introducing ShoeVox
Over the past few weekends, I’ve been working with my friend Robert on a fun side project. Tonight we’re proud to be releasing ShoeVox, a Windows applications that allows you to control media applications with your voice. Please check our Rob’s announcement post for full details, including a download link.
What I’ve Been Up To
For my friends, classmates, and coworkers who have been wishing me happy birthday today, I thought I’d write up a summary of what I’ve been up to lately.
New Business Models for News
For my Introduction to Law & Technology class this semester, I worked with two of my classmates on a survey of new business models for journalism and news organizations. The results can be found on the website we have created, including a full recap and notes of the Knight Media conference held at the Yale Law School in November.
We performed survey research on eight of the most discussed new business models for news, although we tried not to prescribe any of them as “the” solution. As countless others have pointed out, there will not be any single solution that will work for any or all news organizations, so it is instead important to understand how each might contribute to a new news organization structure. We hope to update the site periodically as events unfold in the industry, and will continue to post to our Publish2 newsgroup as we come across relevant new content.
We hope our research and summaries are useful to interested observers, especially those who may not have been following the issues at hand as closely as we have. Feel free to give feedback and let us know what you think.
Who will pay the messengers?
Following are my notes from the “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who will pay the messengers?” conference hosted by Yale Law School and the Yale Information Society Project.
Clean Install Software
With all the talk of web versus desktop lately, I decided to reflect on what software I use outside of my web browser. A good way to think about this is to list all the software that you install on a fresh installation of your operating system (Windows, OSX, or Linux).
Space Shuttle Launch
The past few days, my father and I went down to Orlando to see the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch into space on mission STS-125, the final repair mission to the Hubble space telescope. We managed to snag tickets to watch the launch from the closet point open to the public, the NASA Causeway about 5 miles from the Pad 39A complex. Following are my pictures from the launch and from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, as well as my reaction to the launch itself.
Joys of Reformatting
Unfortunately there won’t be a Courant-related post today, as I’m in the process of reformatting and reinstalling everything on my laptop. Nothing terrible has happened, I just needed a clean development environment and decided it was worth a full wipe instead of trying to manually cleap up Window’s registry and paths. This laptop doesn’t have a DVD drive, so I’m going to try an install from a USB drive, or else seek an external drive tomorrow. I’m going to install a new-ish (post-beta) build of Windows 7, which appears to be stable and has improved tablet functionality, which is a win for me (Thinkpad X61 tablet). I’ll make up for the off day with a post tomorrow on Articles in Courant News.
Welcome
This personal blog has been a long time coming. I’ve toyed with doing such a blog in the past, but could never maintain interest. Now that I’m involved in a number of public ventures, I thought it would be appropriate to have a soapbox upon which I can talk about things in more depth than a 140-character tweet will allow. I hope you enjoy!
P.S. If anyone wants to help with a logo/header for this blog, I’d be eternally grateful.
