For one of our Networked Cities projects, we were asked to explore urban markup. While looking at existing projects, my teammate David Hutchful and I got the feeling that tagging spaces is a pretty crowded space. Tagging or otherwise marking people with the intent of learning more about them or feeling more connected to them [...]
Tagged design, identity, place, siAs an ischool student, I like to see what folks at other ischools are thinking about, and I had experimented some with claimid in the fall. In the developers’ own words,
One of the greatest things about having a claimID page is that you can easily provide people searching for you with a real picture [...]
Tagged identity, social softwareThe phrase “alone together” came up in a couple of different contexts this week. In both instances it was expressed as being physical with other people participating in a solitary activity: checking email at Starbucks, flying without talking with your seatmates, and the like. This is not unlike Ducheneaut’s use of the phrase alone together [...]
Tagged community, design, placeI’ve had a busy couple of months. Among the highlights:
My team’s submission for the CHI student design competition was accepted. Like a lot of good news, this begets more work, but it’s fun and I’m really looking forward to the conference.
I’ve been accepted to the PhD program at SI. I’m pretty excited; among the [...]