Interrelativity

Category: Web/Tech

  • ETech 2007: Fun, Games, Magic … and Intimidation

    I’m attending my first Emerging Technologies Conference (ETech) this week, and have attended a number of interesting and engaging talks by a number of interesting and engaging people. The themes that seem to be emerging thus far are the use of technology for fun and games, and creating a sense of magic … though, unfortunately,…

  • Mobile Persuasion 2007: Triggering Changes in Attitudes and Behavior

    BJ Fogg and his colleagues brought together an interesting and diverse collection of researchers, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and [other] activists at the Mobile Persuasion conference at Stanford University recently to discuss and debate the use of mobile technology to change people’s beliefs and behaviors. The twelve pages of notes I took are evidence that I…

  • Mutual Inspiration and the Wealth of Networks

    I have been very slowly reading and digesting The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, by Yochai Benkler. It is truly a labor of love. The more I read, the more I am convinced that this is book is / will be a significant part of the canon for the paradigm…

  • The Twelve Steps for Technology-Centered Designers

    A friend and I were recently discussing the prevalence of technocentric design and thinking in many of the world’s leading technology research and development centers, both in industry and academia.  During the course of the conversation, in which we recounted people, places and projects that seemed to reflect an approach that might be characterized as…

  • Cyberbullying: Prevalence, Preventability and Politics

    Perhaps due, in part, to things I’ve read, thought and blogged about recently regarding cybershaming and accountability, and the fearful overreactions of parents and other authorities over teens’ use of MySpace, I had a more skeptical reaction to a Wall Street Journal article this week on "Schools Act to Short-Circuit Spread of ‘Cyberbullying’" than the…

  • Working at Nokia on Context, Content and Community

    We recently posted an external web page for the Context, Content and Community project I’m working on (and playing with) in collaboration with some of my new colleagues here at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto. This is, by definition (or at least by name), a rather broad and ambitious undertaking. As we summarize it on…

  • Monitoring MySpace: Parental and Political Pacification

    The Wall Street Journal reports that News Corp. is planning to offer free software that parents (and others with computer administrator privileges) can use to track the name, age and location provided by any users of that computer who access an account on MySpace. The article reports that "dozens of teens have been molested and…

  • Citizen Accountability Projects

    Last Friday’s Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition included an article by Jennifer Saranow entitled "The Snoop Next Door" that contains a roundup of a number of web sites dedicated to documenting deviancy from social norms, large and small. The title and photos led me to prepare for an alarming expose on the abuses of using…

  • Under the Radar Mobility Conference

    I attended the IBDNetwork‘s Under the Radar Mobility Conference at the Microsoft Conference Center in Mountain View yesterday. Being rather new to the mobile technology space, it was an informative and enlightening experience for me, helping me better appreciate the challenges in creating successful mobile products and services. And although the presentations were informative, relatively…

  • Microsoft: The Republican Party of the Technology World?

    My children sometimes ask me to explain the difference between Republicans and Democrats (especially during election season). While I admit that sometimes I can’t tell the difference myself, I generally simplify by saying that Republicans trust business to do the right thing, but don’t trust individuals to do the right thing, while Democrats don’t trust…