Interrelativity

Category: Events

  • Standing on Boxes: Signaling Costs and Benefits in Online and Offline Social Networks (Judith Donath at C&T 2007)

    The highlight of the recent Communities and Technologies Conference (C&T 2007) – for me – was Judith Donath‘s keynote on "Agents and Faces: The Reliability of Online Signals" (based on her course – and forthcoming book – on Signals, Truth and Design). I’d posted a relatively tiny summary of an abbreviated glimpse she’d offered in…

  • Communities & Technologies Conference (C&T 2007): Socializing and Sociologizing on the Web

    The 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2007) – or cct2007, on Flickr and Slideshare – was held at Michigan State University two weeks ago. [Update: proceedings are now online.] Among the high order bits for me were the growing trend in analyzing data from normal use of large-scale social networking services (vs.…

  • iPhone iGloat: Signaling through Signatures

    I’m at the Communities & Technologies (C&T2007) conference, continuously partially attending to a stream of traffic on a mailing list ostensibly devoted to the planning of a fast-approaching unconference. Judith Donath gave a fabulous presentation earlier today on applying signaling theory to online social networks. I’ll be blogging in much greater length about that soon,…

  • Africa is the New Black

    If I were to highlight one [more] theme that emerged at Foo Camp 2007 (having already noted the themes of passion, privilege, scalability and desirability as well as attention, inattention, appreciation and depreciation), it would be that Africa is the new black, i.e., an area of increasingly popular, perhaps even fashionable, interest. There were three…

  • Attention and Inattention … Appreciation and Depreciation

    One of the Foo Camp 2007 sessions I most enjoyed was on the topic of Attention and Inattention, led by Kathy Sierra, Linda Stone and Dan Russell. One of the most surprising aspects of Foo Camp (for me) was that when I expressed appreciation to a couple of people I greatly admire for the inspiration…

  • Passion, Privilege, Scalability … and Desirability

    Yesterday morning I woke up with a flash of inspiration about a topic I wanted do discuss with other Foo Campers. It’s a topic I’ve ruminated about before, in the context of work, pleasure and the pursuit of happiness, and it seemed especially relevant here: what if everyone followed their passions? Here’s the description I…

  • Pervasive 2007: Approaching Everywhere, Everyone and Everything

    I just attended my first International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2007), and I have to agree with many of my friends who have been to both Pervasive and UbiComp that the conferences are very similar, differing primarily with respect to the time of year they are convened. Both focus on computing technology as it…

  • Questioning Questioning: The Performative and Informative Aspects of Public Inquiry

    During the CHI 2007 conference last week, I asked a number of questions after a number of presentations during a number of sessions (two examples of which are shown in the photos on the left from Marc Davis’ Flickr stream). I usually find it very challenging to muster the gumption to walk up to the…

  • ETech 2007, Part 2: People, Power, Patterns and Practices

    I find it challenging to summarize my impressions of ETech 2007 in a single phrase (or a "one thing" that was most interesting, a question I often ask others returning from a conference). I already wrote about the themes of fun, games and magic at ETech, and Tim O'Reilly's recent post on a Call for…

  • ETech 2007 BoF: How can we support Kathy Sierra (and other women in our “community”)?

    As I noted in my last post about ETech, amidst the fun and excitement at the conference, I feel angry and sad — and feeling frustratingly helpless (and even a bit embarrassingly male) — about the acts of violence that have been perpetrated on Kathy Sierra (who had been the scheduled opening keynote speaker), including…