Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Richie Hazlewood joins Strands Labs Seattle for the summer

    Richie Hazlewood arrived a few weeks ago from the School of Informatics at Indiana University to work with us on our next generation proactive display applications this summer. Richie has been working with Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly and others at Indiana on a variety of interesting and relevant projects involving ambient information displays, data mining,…

  • The Indigo Girls’ Zoo Tunes Concert

    The Indigo Girls gave a concert Sunday night at Woodland Park Zoo's Zoo Tunes 2008 Concert Series that was, note for note, the finest music I've ever seen and heard live. I've attended – and reviewed – a fair number of other great concerts, but all of them have had at least one relative "low…

  • Snoop: An Investigation into Possessions, Perceptions, Projections and Personalities

    Sam Gosling‘s new book – Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You – blends an engaging and accessible overview of some of the key concepts and research findings in personality psychology and environmental psychology with what amounts to a collection of short detective stories. Snoopology, the art and science of determining “which of your tastes…

  • Thingamajiggr II: Attentionality, Surreality and Sexuality

    I attended Thingamajiggr, “a party celebrating the innovative Pacific Northwest tech community”, last night. The party – organized by Waggle Labs and O’Reilly Radar, and held at the 911 Media Arts Center – was fun, and the presentations preceding the party – by John Medina, Scotto Moore, Dan Savage and others – were very engaging…

  • New Faces at Strands Labs Seattle

    Yogi and I have recently been joined by some wonderful new people at Strands Labs Seattle, and our new office space has some new surfaces that make it increasingly habitable. Sameer Ahuja, a graduate student intern from Virginia Tech, arrived May 12, and will be spending the summer with us. Sameer has been working with…

  • UbiComp 2008 Workshops

    We are happy to announce 9 workshops that will be held at UbiComp 2008, the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, in Seoul, South Korea, on September 21, the day before the main conference program, which will take place September 22-24. Workshops provide an excellent opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of ubiquitous computing…

  • The Challenges of Location-Based Social Networking

    Meetro, the location-aware instant messaging application – and company – has failed (or as my entrepreneur friends often like to say in such cases, it has "run out of runway"). Peter sent me a link to an inspiring TechCrunch guest post by Paul Bragiel, Meetro's founder, in which Paul has courageously shared the lessons he…

  • What Would Your Toaster Say to Your TV?

    The recent announcement of the Sprint / Clearwire WiMax venture generated a great deal of excitement in many quarters. In an Advertising Age article,  "WiMax Could Bring Dramatic Changes, Wherever You Are", Abbey Klaussen writes: WiMax is essentially the network that will deliver data and voice services to phones, but much faster than what consumers…

  • KT Tunstall @ The Moore, Seattle (a concert review)

    KT Tunstall and her band of mostly unplugged musicians gave an energetic performance at The Moore Theatre in Seattle last night. The music was drastically fantastic, and her rapport and repartee with the audience was light-hearted and engaging. I first discovered her through spam – one of the weekly emails RealNetworks used to send out…

  • Religion, Politics, Racism and Invisibility: Obama and Wright vs. McCain and Hagee

    Robb’s comment on my post about the Capitol Steps show in Seattle got me thinking – and writing – [again] about some of the religious and racial issues in the U.S. presidential race. I started to write a comment in response to Robb’s comment, but as it grew longer and longer, I decided to move…