December 2012

1984 was a long time ago

I read a lot of things that annoy me. It’s hard not to. Thanks Twitter. You’re really helping me out. Sometimes I get smart and stop following people who write too much that frustrates me. I’m also doing my best to just unfollow people who only tweet boring stuff. On an overly personal note I also went through and unfriended about 30% of my Facebook friends recently because seriously do

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99% Invisible: A podcast we all should be listening to

I need some work that’s not writing. Because if I’m writing then I can’t listen to podcasts. And I really want to be listening to 99% Invisible right now. I learned about this podcast recently from one of my top three favorite podcasts (Stuff You Should Know). This seems to be how I learn about podcasts these days, from other podcasts I like. What is 99% Invisible? It’s a short

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Call for Entries: 2013 AIA TAP Building Information Modeling Awards Program

Got this in my e-mail today, figured I should share… One Week left to submit your project! AIA TAP Building Information Modeling Awards Submission Deadline: 5PM ET, December 17, 2012 The AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community is hosting its ninth annual Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards competition. The competition is seeking projects that exhibit exemplary use of integrated and interoperable building information modeling. The Ninth BIM Awards

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One of two interviews I did at ABX 2012

Unfortunately I can’t just share the video directly on my blog. So the link below will take you to the 3 minute video where I talk about Improving Client Communications with BIM, which I realized on the flight back from Washington DC is what I really should have titled the talk. Oh well. Maybe when I revise it and give the talk a third time! Enjoy: Jared talks to US

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Most Popular and Best are not Synonyms

I’ve noticed a peculiar response to the 2012 UK Construction Computing Awards. You know, the awards Graphisoft and ArchiCAD consistently do really well at, winning BIM Product of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. The awards that Revit doesn’t fair as well in. The response I see from one segment of the community is to dismiss the awards (as provincial, alleged, etc.). The argument boils down to “my software

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