Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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Familiar Strangers in India
Julian Crandall Hollick, in a story called “Life in India: Dawn on Parsee Gulli” on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, described an experience — a series of experiences, really — that reminds me of the Familiar Stranger phenomenon. Hollick talks about walking past a man standing outside his apartment each day, how the two would exchange…
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Democracy Now! (more than ever)
Any regular NPR listeners who are looking for an alternative to the relentless, uncritical review(s) of the Reagan years this week may want to check out Democracy Now! In the Seattle area, the show is aired from 6-7 am and 5-6 pm on KBCS (91.3 FM); other stations and times can be found on the…
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Danger in Numbers: 2.5 Million Venezuelan Recall Petition Signers at Risk
NPR aired a report on “Venezuelan Opposition Seeks Recall Vote on Chavez” tonight on All Things Considered. Seems that the names — and national IDs — of many of the 2.5 million Venezuelans who have signed a petition for a referendum to recall President Hugo Chavez have been made available to a variety of government…
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Alphabet Billboard Cambridge: One Week of Fame via Cameraphones
Alphabet Billboard Cambridge (ABC) is a 7.5-meter electronic display that shows images submitted by residents of Cambridge, UK, via cameraphones. Each week for a 3-year period, one resident is given a cameraphone and offered the opportunity to submit as many photos as he or she wishes during that period; the participants are chosen according to…
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CNN on Joi Ito on Blogs
CNN has a nice article on Joi Ito, and Joi’s views and use of blogs. Among the most interesting highlights (for me) were Joi’s blogtime — 5 hours per day, including reading 190 blogs (reminds me of a NYTimes article on blog addiction I read about on Sean’s blog), his emphasis on the use of…
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“Guilty Pleasures”: NPR on Public Revelation of Media Consumption Habits
Traffic was bad on the way home Friday, but the upside was that I got to listen to more of NPR’s All Things Considered than usual. Among the many interesting pieces was commentary by Paul Ford on "Be Proud of Guilty Pleasures", in which he confesses his embarrassment of his own media consumption habits (especially…
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Photo Tote Bag: Plausibly Ignorable Revelation in the Physical World
Friends from Illinois were visiting this weekend; Joanie had a photo tote bag with five photos of her family nearly covering one side of the bag. She said she got it primarily to remind herself [regularly] of what is really important in life, but it has also resulted in several unexpected but welcome conversation opportunities…
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Pocket Rendezvous: Proximity-based Sharing of Digital Content via PocketPCs
Just read this in SmartMobs, which I assume is based on personal communication from the developer; there is more information in an article at The Register. Razvan Dragomirescu of Simeda writes: ” We have completed development for our Pocket Rendezvous project. It’s a web server for the Pocket PC that advertises itself to other Pocket…
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VeriChip-Implanted People (VIPs): Walking Internet Cookies
I’ve often heard the claim that the "price" of privacy, i.e., how much people want in return for revealing private information, is a 10% discount. However, it’s hard to put a price on convenience. New Scientist reports that some people are willing to have RFID chips implanted subcutaneously as part of becoming a VIP member…
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Technorati Adding 12,000 New Blogs A Day
JD’s New Media Musings has some notes from Technorati’s recent Developer’s Salon in which it was claimed that Technorati is adding 11,000-12,000 new blogs a day to the list of blogs it monitors. Disclaimers are made about the fact that some bloggers maintain more than one blog and some people don’t maintain their blog at…