REALscience and I have launched a new version of their web site for which I did design and development.
REALscience is a science media company based in Seattle. We are launching the new site today, March 30th 2009 and will continue rolling out improvements in the following weeks.
There are so many new features we are calling it “REALscience 2.0.” The features include:
* Cross-browser compatibility, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Flock
* Social bookmarking features so articles can be quickly submitted to relevant sites
* Featured articles section to keep popular articles sticky near the top of the site
* Widgetized sidebars so that any widget in WordPress can be easily added and managed
* Gravatar readiness
* Designed for threaded comments
* Custom thumbnail images and optional automatic thumbnail image scaling throughout the site
* Valid XHTML and CSS for a design without the use of tables
Joey Mornin, @joemornin on Twitter and a research assistant at the Berkman Center, had tweeted“I have seen the future, and it is a Carl Sagan/Stephen Hawking remix …” (11:24 AM Oct 2nd from TweetDeck). That I had to see, and when I saw it I had to tweet: “This Carl Sagan Stephen Hawking remix … should play on a wall @PacSci :) via @joeymornin” (11:35 AM Oct 2nd from Google Wave (Tweety)).
Pacific Science Center, @PacSci on Twitter, understands social media. As every person, business, or organization using social media ought to be, in a word they are: social. When I mention @PacSci, they watch for it and in this case their response was: “RT @brianglanz: This Carl Sagan Stephen Hawking remix … should play on a wall @PacSci :) via @joeymornin <GLORIOUS!>” (11:43 AM Oct 2nd from Seesmic). They responded quickly, giving credit to Joey Mornin and me, and added their own comment, <GLORIOUS!> — all in 140 characters. <yoda>Impressive!</yoda>
Will the “A Glorious Dawn” remix actually appear at the Pacific Science Center? Whether on a wall, at a kiosk, or on screen before IMAX films I do think this sort of “citizen media” should be displayed alongside “citizen science” in our educational and cultural institutions. This video accentuates and amplifies important parts of the messages Sagan, Hawking, and science at large have to share. In an incomplete circle, science has made possible the technology, has made possible the culture, has made possible great grassroots work like this media; science needs to close the circle and better connect with the community.
Quintin Doroquez, @quintind on Twitter chimed in, too by tweeting“@brianglanz That was brilliant!” (11:57 AM Oct 2nd from Tweetie) and I could not agree more. Thanks and congratulations to the creator of “A Glorious Dawn,” John Boswell, melodysheep on YouTube, whose video has a perfect 5 out of 5 stars after thousands of ratings and more than 600,000 views in its first two weeks.
Twenty years ago on June 4, 1989, thousands of pro-democracy protesters — most of them students — were killed by the Chinese government where they gathered peacefully, in Tiananmen Square.
Seattle’s Ken Judd en Montage
I made this montage from my photos of the works of Seattle’s Ken Judd. The video was also a gift for his 50th birthday. We had lost KJ to San Diego in 08, but he’s back in Seattle in 09.
I may remaster the video — publish a higher resolution, remove the birthday reference, add a new opening and closing, etc. Generally, this is a test of displaying video on BrianGlanz.net while it is hosted here by MySpace.
REALscience and I have launched a new version of their web site for which I did design and development. 
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