Digitaria Blogs

More Than One Way to “Win” A Hackathon

kristina.eastham — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Nicholas Davison There are two key phrases floating around JWT these days: Worldmade and dotJWT. Worldmade speaks to the storied agency’s international presence and what that can bring. dotJWT is about pulling these amazing experts from many different countries together to build the very best things possible. But it’s hard. All too easily, earnest slogans degenerate to empty phrases. Getting people who’ve never worked...

Digi@themovies: Dark Shadows, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

kristina.eastham — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Digitaria Staff Whether you are a fan of the original 1966-71 gothic soap opera or the short lived 1991 primetime serial rebirth, you will find little resemblance in Tim Burton’s comic cinematic revision of Dark Shadows. Long-time fans pining for a scary, big budget supernatural thriller have been sacrificed on a pyre of boozy caricatures and high-gloss Burton visual effects. --> read more

The Sad Future of Mobile Phones

kristina.eastham — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:49:07 +0000

Bryan Paijit [Editor’s Note: Digitaria’s blog is always the work of our employees, and we don’t always agree with what they write. But we always agree they’ve got a right to say it, especially when they say it so entertainingly.] --> read more

We (Maybe) Want You!

kristina.eastham — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:55:30 +0000

Jason Kleckner Category : User Experience We have a great opportunity to bring a User Experience (UX) intern into Digitaria’s new Minneapolis office this summer. But instead of a traditional interview process, we’ll be selecting this lucky individual via MIMA’s the Intern Game, an unconventional dating game-style event, May 18. --> read...

Digi@themovies: The Avengers

kristina.eastham — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000

Christine Wu I’m an analyst by trade, not a movie reviewer – but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been eagerly awaiting The Avengers for months. Still, I couldn’t help but think as an analyst as I sat down to watch the film’s preview screening this week. I looked around and saw the usual suspects – members of the press, bloggers and reviewers – but also large groups of families, kids, and die-hard fans who...

Of Web and Art History - Part 2

kristina.eastham — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:28:29 +0000

Julie Morgan Category : User Experience Last week, “Of Web and Art History Part I” discussed paradigms of art history that are mirrored in web design and development. In addition to trends in design, trends in media constraints also affect design in web and traditional art. One example of a traditional painter pushing media constraints was Georgia...

You Don’t Faze Me, Brogrammers

kristina.eastham — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:04:53 +0000

Darcy Taylor As a female web developer, what do I think of the Rise of the “Brogrammer”? I think it’s worth little more than a *sigh* and an *eye roll*. I mean, really…is a subspecies of male tech geek that prioritizes the frat-house antics of hot chicks, fist-bumps, sex and lowest-common-denominator style worth anything more than a chuckle? --> read more

Digi@themovies: The Five Year Engagement, The Raven

kristina.eastham — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Digitaria Staff The Five Year Engagement had all the ingredients to be one of my favorite movies. Judd Apatow and Jason Segel (my favorite film duo), at it again—check. Make Segel a fish out of water, with a lovely English romantic foil and her hilariously dysfunctional family—check. Add beautiful shots of my old Bay Area hometown (San Francisco)—check! As a promising first half hour dragged into what felt...

Of Web and Art History - Part 1

kristina.eastham — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:56:28 +0000

Julie Morgan Category : User Experience Archetypes develop as big ideas that permeate our culture. They emerge as people collectively evolve as individuals and grow within our society. In art history, archetypes are paradigms of visual thinking and showcase the artist’s and the culture’s reflective values of the time. When you study art history, ...

Digi@themovies: The Lucky One, Think Like A Man

kristina.eastham — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Digitaria Staff The Lucky One is the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks tearjerker (The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Message in a Bottle, etc.), and hits all its marks: beautiful people, tragic coincidences, anguished love, you know the drill. --> read more