Carnival #174

The Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted this week by Ram Krishnan at the Mobile Broadband Blog. The Carnival is a weekly collection of the Web’s best writing on mobile and wireless, hosted and collected by a different site each week. If you are already reading our blog, you should add this collection to your subscription list as well.

I was a bit disappointed the new mobile website we designed (but which hasn't launched yet) wasn't mentioned in Paul Ruppert's interview with Lisa Gersh, Managing Director of The Weather Channel among other things. And while I like design philosophy thinking, I need to think some more on Tomi's entry on device inputs and Ajit's entry on classes of mobile design before I can tell what I would do with them.

My submission is easy eye candy, on the other hand. I love science fiction, and how the concepts lead us to new ideas, and with that in mind posted a clip (and my own take on what it is) of a neat ePaper/messaging-tablet thing from a recently released TV pilot. Watch it now and tell us what you think. Personally, I actually want one of these.

Barbara, not sure who you’re disappointed in—Lisa or me. To her defense, we were talking at a corporate development conference pertaining to M&A of companies.
Thanks for reading though.
Paul Ruppert

First of all, it’s me to blame, not Barbara. Regardless, my default state is to gripe about stuff. Interrupted by brief periods of excitement (usually about cookies or pie).

Almost all of our work is NDA’d out the ying yang, such that I can rarely talk about what category of product or industry the client is in. I keep hoping with the few that do say we can talk about it (like weather.com) that they’ll talk about it also.

I never meet people at this level, so it would have been neat to know what the driving thoughts were at that level, in relative retrospect.