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It’s an image. It’s an animation. It’s both!!

It’s Imagimation!

The image below may appear to be a 2-dimensional drawing. Hold down your left mouse button and scroll up (or down) and use a little imagimation! Animating a 2d image using an imagined 3d perspective.

You know you’ve got an imagination, but did you know that you’ve also got an ‘imagimation?’ While most people are well-versed at imagining a static picture, far fewer of us regularly practice imagimating, animating that static image. In fact, it’s must harder to do than most people would think.

Why is it that you have to look back and forth at oncoming traffic before making a left-hand turn? Because YOU are limited in your imagimative capabilties.

Fear not though, practice imagimating and you’ll increase your capacity for such heady activity. You might even become happier and more successful! Especially if your newly developed imagimation motivates you to develop other abilities and talents.

Tell your friends and family that you’ve got imagimation and then explain it to them. Not only will you be helping them to think about things a bit differently, you’ll be having a notable achievement!

Web applications and sites tend to illustrate an insensitivity to human experience. Technologists fascination with technology as something outside of and distinct from humanity points to this lack of sensitivity in the conceptualization and formation of the web technologies. Such a fascination with technology becomes part of the weave of the technology itself. Rather than invisibly serving the needs of people, the technology becomes the subject, and the web serves as a technology “showcase.” I used to think that we were at a place to incorporate an appreciation of personhood into the design of web software. By adapting to individual Users, software could then point each User to information and other Users without being specifically requested to do so by a User. I’m now of the opinion that in order to bring about what I refer to as Web2.U technologists will first have to learn more about human nature. Note that ‘human nature‘ is a misnomer!

Until then, because it’s so darn much to effectuate even small change, I’ve put off the ideas for web2.U and have been focusing on the interactive web, developing interactions that occur at a rate that affords the natural flow of emotions for the given interaction. One example is in the form of a posting at my weblog, On Valuing Creative Thinking. Another instantiation is in the form of a game I’m developing with a partner for Facebook.

Additionally, I’ve coded up my site plexAV to serve as a testbed for a technology that I’ve been developing. My goal, “to make apparent to others opportunities they would otherwise have failed to note.”

I’m using woopra to track live visitors and I’m not sure, but it seems that it’s missing a bunch of visitors! I know this because I’m also running a plugin on my site that shows me the Users that are at the site and there are many more visitors that aren’t shown on Woopra. Now, some of these visitors may be bots, but I’d sure like to know with more certainty when a person is on the site.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can be more sure about how well Woopra is working for me? I’ve looked at the Woopra forums and have seen comparisons between Woopra and Google Analytics, but Google isn’t meant to track in real time which is what I need.

Why do I need it? Because Plexav.com enables people to be on the air LIVE! Pick up your cell phone and dial “Wizard Bing” and if the line isn’t busy, you’ll hear the phone ring (once or twice) and then you’re on the air!

And, if you register to be a correspondant, you can post images, text, links and videos which will all appear on the site. Visitors won’t have to refresh the page, they’ll just appear! Witnessing a newsworthy story?? Call “Wizard Bing” and with your web enabled phone you can post images, video, and you can describe the goings on at the same time!

This is the new dynamic web and you can be there!