a looking-glass book

midterm progress

progress is behind by a week because of kurt's absence. we hadn't really gotten a chance to talk about the project. but we met last night and began sketching out interfaces for a multi-author video blog system.

some of our scramblings on napkins as we went back and forth.

there are several challenges right now to what we have - we need a prototype and we need to finalize the interface. location has still been a sticky point between us, with kurt seeing it as essential and me seeing as less important.

this problem arises because location depends on at least 2 dimensions, which really prevents you from seeing a summation of video over time and location with regards to others. kurt envisions a map, where i think it could be displayed more relatively, if at all.

we do have a solution, but im not convinced it needs to be that complicated.

it just seems to me that time (and the summation of the video) are more important than seeing exactly where you where when it was shot. perhaps itll become important down the road, but i just think kurt has been thinking about maps too much.

i expect that we will have a final mockup in the next few days and can begin building the system and creating a demo of the content.