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What's the digital version of a snow globe?

2009-12-29T10:29:06-08:00

We have this delightful musical Santa snow globe that we bring out for the holidays. It got me thinking about collectibles and decorative doodads.

People love snow globes. People love weird, creepy snow globes. People have collected snow globes for 200 years. Businessmen travel far and wide and pick up little plastic ones for their children from Hartford to Hawaii and everywhere in between.

Is there a digital version of the snow globe? Is there a silly, beautiful digital tchotchke that could play the same role as the snow globe? I can't think of anything that would fill this niche digitally: physical, collectible, displayable, requiring some human manipulation. And it should facilitate highly variable pricing (from $1 to $100). I think smartphone apps play this role to some extent, but I'm looking for something that you could actually put on shelf, an object d'arte. Apps simply aren't permanent.

Recently I met David and Jeevan over at Sifteo. Maybe those fun little Siftables would be perfect for the task? What do you think? What would make the perfect "digital snow globe?" Or is digital media just not up to the task?

The Myth. The Magic. The Mystery. The Majesty.

2009-12-14T11:18:09-08:00

The trailer got pulled, so below is an artist representation. First Zeus was all "Mortals suck!" and he would have thrown down some of the lightning - WHOOSHCRASH! - except he didn't. Then we saw a glimpse of Pegasus and that rocked, and there was some dude with a sword and he was all "Mortals don't suck!" and he ran some places, jumped around and then was all "WTF!? GIANT GODDAMN FUCKING SCORPIONS!!1!"

via www.sippey.com

While this new Clash of the Titans looks all slick and purty, if it doesn't feature Harry Hamlin killing a Kraken I think I'll wait until it gets to Netflix-On-Demand thank you very much.

Go old school back to 1981, my friends, I present to you my favorite film from youth: Clash of the Titans

2009-11-19T10:41:26-08:00

I like this new TypePad Micro. I think we're going to get along famously.

It will be interesting to see how it handles longer posts alongside 141+ characters posts, but in general this seems like a great step for TypePad and SixApart. Personally, I'd love to use this as my primary Twitter and Facebook client, as well. That way I can read all the news and then update my blog with any reactions to the day's events. This "read & react" cycle is what fuels social media since so few of us are actually original content creators.

What do you think?