Filed under Intents …

Mar 27 2012
Format, Intents, Peers, Release, Research

Intent 3

College Photo Blog

What tools will I need?

I will need  to find the following:

Tools to explore:

  • Buddypress
  • Photosmash (plugin)
  • Featured Image

Research

Sites like Pictory have done something similar in the past, as well as Appicture. Both are photoblogs of sort. Pictory has a submission system where you sign up and then submit, whereas Appicture has you email your picture as well as fill out a small form.

Format

Hopefully this will take the shape of a photoblog that is community driven. The angle will be UMaine-specific topics and (hopefully) what the student body is passionate about.

Peers

I’d like to talk with Derek O’Brien about his site for Appicture. I have studied the blog, but I have questions for him and his approach. I’ll most likely see him Tuesday March 27th.

Mar 20 2012
Autobotography, Intents

Intent: “College Photo Journal”

The University website has many nice photos of campus life, however, they don’t always truly reflect the experience of living on campus in UMaine. I’d like to create a photo journal documenting what it’s like to live on campus. Going to class, dining halls, dorm life . . . everything. It would be a way to give insight into what it’s like to live and study at UMaine. It could perhaps be major specific, as the life of a New Media student may differ from that of an Engineer student.

It would also be interesting to add an accompanying audio component.

Feb 19 2012
Intents

Reviewed Intents

My Campus; Sticky Note Edition by James Knight

“I like this idea. There are websites dedicated to college student reviews, but in my experience, they’re very poorly done, empty, and most of the reviews don’t touch on the examples you gave. I very much like the idea of upvotes and downvotes; it’d be a good way to bring the best stuff to the top, and filter out the not so good stuff. Sites like Reddit.com use this system successfully.

Conceptual: 9”

Sidewalks Get Their Say, Too by Andrew Robbins

“I think it’s a good way to be heard. I always notice the stuff written on sidewalks, even though it’s just chalk . . . so it’d be cool to see what you could do with stencils.

Conceptual: 8”

 

Feb 19 2012
Hactivism, Intents

Intent: “New Last.FM Statistics”

Last.FM is a great site that takes information from your iTunes account and displays playcounts for artists and albums.

I would like to create some sort of app that takes the music statistics from a user’s “Last.FM” account a bit further and displays a range of new, different statistics, such as what percent of your music is female/male vocal-fronted, instrumental, genre, or what decade it’s from, and displays it in a visual way, like a pie chart, for each category. So, it would basically be a hack on your existing Last.FM statistics.

These new statistics could be based on existing tags from Last.FM, and could be an interesting autobiographical look at different aspects of a user’s listening habits less common than simply “most played artist” or “most played song.”

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Feb 02 2012
Hactivism, Intents

Intent: Dining Hall Virtual Comment Board

The comment boards in the dining halls at UMaine are either poorly maintained or nonexistent. It would be neat to have a system where users could upload comments to a “virtual comment board” for the dining management to easily see. Comments would be upvoted or downvoted based on quality by the community. It would be very visual, and each comment would require information like “dining location” and “time of visit” so comments could be filtered and categorized.

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