Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • 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,…

  • Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you

    David Whyte's poetry and narratives in the 6-CD collection, Clear Mind, Wild Heart: Finding Courage and Clarity through Poetry, continue to inspire me. The title of this post is taken from his poem, Sweet Darkness, in which he writes about darkness, tiredness, belonging, freedom and coming alive.  This past week, I recognized that I have…

  • On Virginity, Vulnerability and Vaccines

    Last night, I discovered of The Virginity Project (via Shel Israel’s blog), a book project in which Kate Monroe is compiling a list of stories about how, when and why people lost their virginity. On the drive in this morning, I heard a segment on NPR‘s Morning Edition entitled "Young People and Sex: Parents, Can…

  • Notes from Florida: Reviews of Tampa Area Attractions, Detractions and Distractions

    We went to Florida for a family vacation last week, visiting my mom and stepfather in Clearwater, and engaging in [more common] tourist and consumerist activities. Although I didn’t take a vacation from email during the trip, I did take a full vacation from blogging (and I still feel backlogged in both dimensions … not…

  • 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…

  • Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivations: Doing the Right Things for the Right Reasons

    I was recently talking with a friend about the contrast between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, and offered to send him an email with some of the inspiring things I've been reading about this topic lately. Having just blogged about mutual inspiration, and how blogging provides a channel for telling the stories we make up about…

  • 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…