http://crosswiredmind.com life ~ ia ~ faith ~ scifi ~ rpgs ~ stuff Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:55:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had an interesting experience yesterday. I was surfing on my iPhone and I pulled up CNN to check out the news (I normally use the BBC but that's a long story). I was shocked when I was forced into the mobile version of CNN and could not ... http://crosswiredmind.com/2008/07/when-is-mobile-not-mobile/ In UX design and product development there is quite a bit of talk about convergence - the notion that products or platforms that were very distinct begin to become so close to each other that they merge. The iPhone is one device that creates quite a bit of convergence ... http://crosswiredmind.com/2008/07/convergence-metamorphosis/ Well. The killer app for the iPhone just arrived. Well - killer app for me at least. The Wordpress app just hit the app store. Now I can blog on the run. Maybe I'll be able to post more frequently. http://crosswiredmind.com/2008/07/mobile-blogging/ When the use of a wonderful technology comes back to bite the user - in this case a Chinese restaurant. http://crosswiredmind.com/2008/07/this-is-really-really-funny/ ... and very poor. http://crosswiredmind.com/2008/07/soon-i-will-be-very-happy/ As you may know from a pervious post I am a big fan of Robert Hoekman Jr.'s first book Designing the Obvious. Well I finally got around to picking up his new book Designing the Moment. Just like his first I was absolutely floored by the time I ... http://crosswiredmind.com/2008/07/designing-the-moment/ http://crosswiredmind.com/2008/02/my-little-cthulhu-the-you-tube-star/ You think you have an email back log ... Ok, ok ... its just a glitch in the system but it scared the crap out of me when I saw it. http://crosswiredmind.com/2007/09/2-billion-served/ Paizo continues to rock! kidrobot has it! My Plastic Heart sold out, and they are restocking! Noble Knight Games has it! Panik's Toy Box has it too! UPDATE! fugitive toys joins in http://crosswiredmind.com/2007/06/my-little-cthulhu-creeps-into-ecommerce/ Not to be outdone by twin launch parties for the Hoodiez, check out the response to John Kovalic's My Little Cthulhu. Paizo is one of, if not the largest ecommerce site dedicated gaming. Check out their top 10 and take note of numbers 5, 8, and 9. sweet. http://crosswiredmind.com/2007/05/my-little-cthulhu/