Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
One of the discussion threads at the CHI Conference examined the effects of technology on social interaction and socialization. In his talk on mobile blogging, Russell Beale (University of Birmigham, UK – blog) described two different views on the effect of technology on socialization, what he calls Vision and Reality. The Vision–the optimistic view...
Scott Cook opened CHI 2006 with a plenary on fostering innovation. Live-blogging notes have been posted on the CHI Blog. Here are my notes, which are not a word-by-word report on the talk but more of an annotated reconstruction (quote at your own risk). Creating Game-changing Invention The brief – Innovation happens at the...
Today is the first day of CHI 2006 in Montréal, Québec and my first time at a CHI conference. First impression – Who would have imagined that so many people are into Human-Computer Interaction! (In practical terms, this means that there no way to get to the coffee and food without hurting somebody or...
What do you mean "too short"? And who are you to insult my keywords? (Can you guess which site features this rude search engine?) Tags: humor, search, rude behavior...
Exactly one year ago I bought my domain and started a WordPress blog. It’s been a wonderful adventure. (In case you are wondering: no, I don’t plan to quit blogging any time soon.) When I started blogging I didn’t have a "blog strategy." I doubt I even knew what a blog strategy was. I...
I frequently receive questions about blogging from friends and through my site. When I was new to blogging I realized that it wasn’t easy to locate basic instructions on blogs and blogging. Most of the articles I found assumed some level of knowledge I didn’t have at the time. For this reason, I’ve decided...