Aug
23
ryan p. sims
is really doing alright these days.
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Aug
21
“Sociable technology must support the four themes of communication, presentation, support for groups, and troubleshooting. How these are handled determines whether or not we will find interaction to be sociable. People learn social skills. Machines have to have them designed into them. Sometimes even worse than machines, however, are services, where even though we are often interacting with people, the service activities are dictated by formal rule books of procedures and processes, and the people we interact with can be as frustrated and confused as we are. This too is a design issue. Design of both machines and services should be thought of as a social activity, one where there is much concern paid to the social nature of the interaction. All products have a social component. This is especially true of communication products, whether websites, personal digests (blog), audio and video postings mean to be shared, or mail digests, mailing lists, and text messaging on cellphones. Social networks are by definition social. But where the social impact is obvious, designers are forewarned. The interesting cases happen where the social side is not so obvious.”
Don Norman’s jnd.org / Sociable Design - Introduction
Aug
19
Eating: bar jules beef tongue.
Aug
19
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“Earthquake weather” by Beck from Guero.
“I push I pull the days go slow
Into a void we filled with death
And noise that laughs falls off their
Maps all cured of pain and doubts
In your little brain
Something’s coming sky is purple
Dogs are howling to themselves
Days are changing with the weather
Like a rip tide could rip us away “
Aug
19
“Without technology, this trip could’ve been very tricky and, yes, even stressful. Planning routes, doing guesswork, feeling scattered and disorganized can all lead to unhappy times. I’d like to think that technology made my trip more fulfilling, less stressful, and more enjoyable. I can’t even begin to contemplate how much TIME we saved by working these services in to our vacation. I encourage everyone to stay open-minded with the technologies that are around them. You don’t need to turn in to a complete tech junkie, but if you think about it, I’m sure there are some things that you can think where technology may help you. If you’re pondering about, “Wow, it’d be really neat if there was a services that did THIS.” There probably is one.”
Traveling to California, Web 2.0-Style « Daniel Peck
Aug
19
Alexander's Quality Without a Name
Alexander says, “The quality without a name, is a situation, where, somehow the essence of life is present. It’s intangible. What one would hope, is that pieces of software, make each person that encounters that software more of a person. They’re capable of doing harm to other people by treating them or our interactions machinelike. Yet, this phenomena has the capability of going to a much-much-much richer place that makes a person or child more humane and caring.”
Aug
19
Christopher Alexander interviewed on Studio 360
Aug
18
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Radiohead’s “Airbag” covered by Radiodread.
Aug
18
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Radiolab: Brian Greene talks about the multiverse with Robert Krulwich. He does an admirable job at explaining the multiverse. It took three listens for me to get it.
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