It was great to see everybody's IGNITE talks on Tuesday – everybody had compeling ideas and it was great to see a passionate investment in the topics by each student. The quality of all the presentations was refreshing and everybody handeled the stress of the situation like professionals. It will be interesting to see the progression of everybody's projects and I think we have something to learn from each students independent use of social media. Without exception, each proposal has the potential to manifest into an executable project – now it is up to us to develop and maintain the concepts we pitched. Although we are just six students, the cummulative effects of our efforts here can be broad. If the pen is mightier than the sword then the social networks of the world is our vast armoury and the internet our battlefield.
As a personal critique, I think that the presentation went fairly well – althought I did abandon my script after about the 5th slide. It is tough to get through a presentation with so much content at a 15 second pace. I also made the mistake of practicing at 20 second intervals... As I mentioned, the project I have proposed is quite ambitious – but feasible and necessary. I hope to be able to develop my application enough to have something sustainable and extensible. Basically, something that I feel compelled to keep working with after this class. I have decided to leverage the requirements of my computer graphics class to offset the development hours of this project – this does change one aspect of my presentation... I will not be using Flash, but rather OpenGL. The downside of this for the class is that I will not be able to display a realtime visualization on the web – rather my app will have to be downloaded. OpenGL is compatible with iPhone and Android, hopefully I will wind up with enough time to make my tool portable to these devices. We shall see...
In terms of accomplishments so far – I have figured out how to use the Twitter search API. This week I will be working on the basic design and the C code to parse the data into OpenGL. If all goes well, I plan on having a working prototype by next Sunday evening.
I think you had a great presentation. It was definitely hard to keep talking at the pace of the slides. I'm impressed with what you're proposing and I know in the short time it won't be completed, but I'm excited to see what you come up with. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHey Anthony, I am posting this after seeing your ignite talk and final project. You were to hard on yourself on your self critique. Everyone else was trying to fill time on a slide periodically. You were the only one who had plenty to say about your project. I thought that I was tech savvy entering this class after taking digital media 1. After the first day I realized that you understanding of computer sciences goes way over my head. However, I can tell that you are passionate/ excited about your project. As a final note, it was cool how on your final project you showed the class how you changed the code corresponding to the Twitter search. Once that is open to any hashtag, the possibilities of comparing Tweets can be applied to any twitter topic
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