Contact Info & Where I Hang Out:

Email me at danlatorre.tint@gmail.com

Follow me on Twitter @danlatorre and say hello.

tint.org  – here, my personal site
harveysarles.com – my teacher’s site; admin, editor, & photo editor
whOWNSpace – a radical urbanism collaboratory

Mini-bio

Digital Product Strategy. 15 year professional digital media practitioner. On the Net since 1990, on the Web since Mosaic’s birth in 1993.

Ex-CKSGroup-Razorfish-FunnyGarbage-RockstarGames-McCann, and other places. Now focused on the civic realm, recently at Scholastic doing educational technology, and at OpenPlans doing online civic engagement and civic media. Currently at Project for Public Spaces as VP, Digital Placemaking.

• Instigator of the #bikenyc Twitter hashtag
• Creator of Scholastic Teacher Share the first K-12 Open Educational Resources site (with support from the Hewlett Foundation)
• Creator of Fixcity.org for transalt.org and Open Plans
• Creator of the first adaptation of Ushahidi for the urban planning context while at PPS.org

Where I Work

At Project for Public Spaces – doing strategic product & service development, and rebuilding the web practice on sustainable Agile methods & platforms. My main focus is Digital Placemaking, the program I started at PPS which is all about creating human-centered social tools and services to enhance and amplify PPS’ community-centered approach to urban planning and design.

Previously at The Open Planning Project - doing product management & strategic planning for Streetsblog, Street Films, Fixcity.org, Livable Streets Community and Education

(Note: All works and opinions here are my own unless otherwise noted, and are not on behalf of companies, organizations, or persons that employ me or that I am involved with on a formal or informal volunteer basis. All posts are under Creative Commons Attribution license, feel free use and quote as you like just credit me by name and link to the source post when doing so, thank you.)

About tint.org

I post to this site to share & work out thoughts and questions I just can’t fit into Twitter or directly apply to the work I’m currently doing.

I’m a multi-cultural third culture kid, with a Colombian and Norwegian-American background who grew up in Bogota, San Diego, Minneapolis. For the past 15 years New York City is what I call home. My background and interdisciplinary interests run across anthropology, cultural studies, semiotics, media studies, socio-linguistics, pragmatic philosophy, zen buddhism, radical urbanism, and community organizing.

Anthropology and media influences, some people who’ve influenced my cultural understanding.
I became aware of Mike Wesch after his web2.0/anthro video came out in Jan ’07, and when talking with him at the 2007 Idea Conference he told me that basically most all of my questions and interests are that of Media Ecology, and that I should talk with Lance Strate. I hung out with Lance on Twitter, finally met him and eventually spoke on one of his conference panels which really helped gather some thoughts on my experience, later attended the 2009 Media Ecology Association convention, and now find just how true Mike’s goading was.  My central teacher to date is Harvey Sarles, I was a student of his in the early 90′s, and have continued dialogue with him ever since. (You can learn more about Harvey from his post on his teachers.) I run his blog and function as a photo editor for him.

It seems appropriate, being an anthro-oriented social media professional, that I feel you’ll understand me better by the *people* that deeply influence me, rather than by the words I use to describe myself.

Hope you find interesting people and ideas here, please share yours.

- Daniel Latorre