Sam Anderson’s article “Judging Your Friends by their Netflix Queue” made it onto a few blogs and the like over the past week, often with comments along the lines of “This article is totally true.” Anderson describes his initial reaction:
When I first started looking at my friends’ Netflix lists, it felt a little creepy. [...]
Tagged collections, identity, social softwareMy group is doing a survey for SI682. I’d rather be doing all-interviews, because I like them better and because I actually know a bit about how to do them. Time is really very short right now, so we’re trying to supplement with the survey. I get butterflies in my stomach because, while I have [...]
Tagged software, surveys, transitWhile reading the news the other day, I noticed that California’s attorney general, Bill Lockyer, filed suit against six automakers. Interesting. Lockyer is “demanding that they pay for environmental damage caused by the emissions of their vehicles.”
Interesting, but irrational (as far as I can tell).
To the best of my knowledge, the automakers have remained in [...]
The School of Information is the first place I’ve been in a number of years that doesn’t have a community norm of using a calendaring system. From what I gather, the school’s administrators use MeetingMaker, faculty use nothing, and students use whatever they have with Google Calendar being the most common. Others in the University [...]
Tagged calendar, cscw, meetings, siMoo, a London-based company that aims to create products that “help folks take their virtual lives offline” got a respectable amount of attention earlier this week when they launched their minicard product for Flickr. The minicards are about half the size of a business card, with text on one side and photos on the other.
I’ve [...]
My goal with this blog is to reflect a bit on topics reasonably close to my academic study (when I stay on topic, which won’t always be the case). This is somewhat new for me; in my past blogging experience, I tended to reflect on the world outside of the areas in which I was [...]
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