Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • SlideShare: YouTube for Presesentations

    I signed up for an account on SlideShare shortly after Mor Naaman told me about this social networking service for slides (after I’d asked him for his slides from Mobile Persuasion 2007). SlideShare is like a YouTube for presentations, with capabilities for creating links to or embedding slides into a web page (such as a…

  • 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…

  • Oriah and Buber, I and Thou: Bringing All Of Who I Am to Blogging

    I’ve been listening nearly exclusively to (and occasionally blogging about) David Whyte’s inspiring words in his audiobook, Clear Mind, Wild Heart, on my iPod for the past several months. Having finished my sixth cycle through [my rip of] his 6 CD set, I decided to listen to Oriah Mountain Dreamer’s audiobook, Your Heart’s Prayer  ……

  • Marketing, Monitoring, Mattering

    USA Today ran an interesting front-page article on Monday about Marketers Take a Close Look at Your Daily Routines, detailing some of the ways and means that companies have employed to better understand the everyday use — and potential use — of their products. Much of the article focused on the monitoring tools and techniques…

  • Radical Transparency: Revelation, Reputation and Reciprocity

    The current issue of Wired has a great feature on radical transparency, highlighting the benefits that accrue to CEOs who are open to revealing their shadows, and exposing the risks to the reputations of those who continue to embrace secrecy and/or duplicity in their self representations. As with many Wired features, it is provocative ……

  • Fino, Finis, Finnish: Jukka Soikkeli’s Farewell Party (and the Power of Passion)

    We celebrated Jukka Soikkeli’s 20+ years at Nokia Research Center at Cafe Fino in Palo Alto last night. Besides learning about Jukka’s penchant for Corvettes, and some of his tangible and intangible contributions to (and through) Nokia, it was noted that Jukka is a prototypical Finn: a man of few words, the wisdom of which…

  • Data, Judgments, Feelings and Wants: A Path toward Clarity

    I was talking with some colleagues this morning about recognizing and resolving misunderstandings and [other] conflicts. I mentioned a few different perspectives and processes that I've used, and sent along some references. I've blogged about two of them before: the four agreements and love and logic. I was surprised to discover I'd never blogged about…

  • 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…