see a puffin eat a fish

We’re leaving Seattle tomorrow!

I’m decompressing after the Social Computing Symposium held here in Redmond, a nice end to my time here in Seattle. Anna and I are going to drive east in a few days. ITP was well represented with Lili hosting the event and Clay, Kevin and Gilad speaking. On the project side ITP also represented with a symposium tailored version of social genius and Terence’s models appearing in Matt’s presentation of Boku. Justin.tv was also in attendance with his real-time stream.

What am I excited about after attending the symposium? Well new visualizations in Dopplr, FireEagle and anything Clay has to say. Not to mention this photo which shows public sharing of flickr content on a map. Red means less, green means more:

According to the interweb, I have “social problems”. I was checking out pipl the other day to see what kind of research on me is available to potential employers when I found out that I have “social problems” (see image) which links to this picture on Flickr. Huge context-specific misunderstanding, I was just hanging out with Daniel at the Seattle library. I hope this kafkaesque ledger doesn’t impact my health insurance premiums.

After spending a whole summer here, Anna put together a list of the pros and cons of living in Seattle, with invaluable input from Terence and Martine.

Terence Arjo has made an awesome short film about our time in Seattle. It stars the very talented Starbucks Automatic Barista. Click below to play.