Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Absolution Power Corrupts Absolutely

    I was listening to a story on CounterSpin where David Cole, Georgetown law professor and author of an article in Salon on “Bush’s torture ban is full of loopholes”, was talking about the executive order recently signed by U.S. President George W. Bush. Cole noted that one of the less noticed provisions of the document…

  • Progress Report on Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP): Week 1

    It’s been a little over a week since my platelet rich plasma (PRP) injection for chronic tendonitis; as with my [blog posts about] my wife’s anal cancer treatment (which was successful, as far as we can tell, having recently passed the two year milestone of being cancer-free), I’ve received email and other inquiries about the…

  • 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…

  • Mending Tendonitis via Platelet Rich Plasma (I hope)

    I have been suffering for the past several months with the 3rd episode of tendonitis in my right elbow in 3 years. The first episode occured in November 2004 after excessive raking – I spent every waking moment for 2 consecutive dry days raking the wet leaves that had fallen over several rainy weeks from…

  • 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…

  • Data “Mining” vs. Data “Oursing”: On the Integration and Integrity of Data, People and Organizations (Len Silverston)

    [The following article was written by my good friend, Len Silverston, founder of Universal Data Models, who is an inspiring thinker, writer and speaker, but not a blogger (yet). It weaves together many threads I’ve touched on about before — radical transparency, us vs. them and the business value of openness, integrity, vulnerability and compassion…