Communications of the ACM
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May 2009
From Putting People First
John Maeda designs technology
On Fora.TV you can find a video of RISD president John Maeda’s talk at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 expo, where he talks about people participation processes at RISD. Watch video
From Putting People First
John Thackara on clean growth
Design Innovation Scotland has published a white paper by John Thackara, entitled Clean Growth: From Mindless Development to Design Mindfulness. It’s the first in a series whose aim is “to stimulate thought and debate about…radical…
From Putting People First
Talking mobile banking in Kenya
Erik Hersman reports on his blog White African from the e Fletcher mBanking conference in Nairobi. Talking Mobile Banking in Kenya Notes from the panel “Perspectives on Mobile and Branchless Financial Service” Volume vs Value…
From Putting People First
Wired economics
Nokia’s Ideas Project published a feature story on why technology may be making money superfluous. “We’re entering a time in which products are expected to give themselves over as platforms for innovation and reinvention. Even…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-25
Just in case you've not been paying attention: don't travel with RyanAir, their contempt for their customers is legendary. One more story to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Metaverse Conference
I have been away from the virtual worlds topic for a while now, but still think it has useful applications in the enterprise. See the upcoming meeting below:' ... The second iteration of the Metaverse U conference takes place…
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Holland on Complex Adaptive Systems
Talk at Case Western by John Holland on Complex Adaptive Systems / Agent Models from this past October. Good overview for the general modeling and simulation practitioner. Have been involved in a number of applications of this…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-24
From The Eponymous Pickle
Permanence of the Record
When I give talks on the Web I often include the caution that you should write knowing that what you say there is permanent and often easily findable. So think about how your future professional prospects will be influenced.as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Classroom
How can social media be used to teach and in general help people within organizations communicate their knowledge? I was part of a recent test at Georgia Tech that used these methods. A project by Howard Rheingold called the…
From The Noisy Channel
News, Search Experience, and Value
I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m delighted to see a thoughtful post from Josh Young, a more serious…
From The Noisy Channel
News, Search Experience, and Value
I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m delighted to see a thoughtful post from Josh Young, a more serious…
From The Noisy Channel
NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized by Gary Marchionini and Ryen White. Some of the output of that workshop…
From The Noisy Channel
NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized by Gary Marchionini and Ryen White. Some of the output of that workshop…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NEC Pennny Tags
I have been long involved with the exploration of RFID tags in retail. Now NEC is indicating that they have developed the long desired passive RFID tags that could cost about one US penny in volume. Of course the cost of an…
From The Noisy Channel
Book. Is. Done.
I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and hopefully last–time that I have hand-edited pdf files (download…
From The Noisy Channel
Book. Is. Done.
I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and hopefully last–time that I have hand-edited pdf files (download…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A researcher
I love gardening. I get good results too. However, my wife is very critical of my techniques.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Wisconsin Leadership Cohort Update
Hello from Wisconsin, land of Harleys, cheese, breweries and great ethnic festivals!
As part of our work on the CSTA Leadership Cohort, Sarah Huibregtse and I have been busy with many advocacy activities.
On May 7 and 8 at…From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-22
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The most ridiculously cool Steadicam shot you
From The Eponymous PickleTwitter Shopping Site
From Storefrontbacktalk: Twitter-Only Shopping Site Gets $4.7 Million Investment. Evan Schuman provides some interesting views of the funding of the idea." ... A site has launched providing human-assisted shopping integrated…
From BLOG@CACMBuilding a Smarter Web
As more information moves to the Web, we need better tools to manage it. Today's tools focus on static Web pages. However, I claim that the Web is becoming a platform for applications, and tools that track user activity with…
From The Eponymous PickleNetezza CIO Wins CIO Innovation Award
Justin Lindsey, CTO, Netezza, Named 2009 CIO Innovation Award Winner at 6th MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. ' ... Lindsey is the CTO of Netezza, which develops database warehouse appliances to provide high-speed computational analysis…
From The Noisy ChannelData.gov
When I first heard that Vivek Kundra was on the short list to be the CTO of the United States, I was very excited about the possibility that he would implement information sharing at a national level like he had in DC. Today…
From The Noisy ChannelData.gov
When I first heard that Vivek Kundra was on the short list to be the CTO of the United States, I was very excited about the possibility that he would implement information sharing at a national level like he had in DC. Today…
From The Noisy ChannelIs Google Conjuring a
Alex Chitu at the unofficial Google Operating System blog reports that: Gmail’s code reveals an upcoming feature called “magic inbox” or “icebox inbox”, which is likely to prioritize the messages sent by your friends and other…
From The Noisy ChannelIs Google Conjuring a
Alex Chitu at the unofficial Google Operating System blog reports that: Gmail’s code reveals an upcoming feature called “magic inbox” or “icebox inbox”, which is likely to prioritize the messages sent by your friends and other…
From Wild WebMinklinks for 2009-05-21
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Here's how to keep your slow loris happy.
From The Eponymous PickleBuilding Leadership from Within
A Fortune piece on P&G's leadership strategy. How will this assure effective transition of leadership? ' ... What makes Lafley so confident is a rigorous leadership program called Build From Within. It microscopically tracks…
From The Noisy ChannelGoogle Suggests
I haven’t seen this in my own browser yet, but MG Siegler at TechCrunch reports that Google Suggest has added advertising (see Google’s official post here). It also talks about personalization, but I’ve been seeing that for a…
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