Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
I’ve lived in New York City since 2006, but my dentist is still in Philadelphia; I couldn’t find a better dentist in New York. He is an excellent doctor: he fixes my problems, doesn’t push unnecessary procedures, has reasonable prices, always answers my questions, and has a great sense of humor. I...
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...
Once upon a time, blogs were conversational hubs. Posts were written to be commented, trackbacked, circulated, debated. Blogs were places you would go to. Strolling through cyberspace, you would visit A, follow a link to B, and engage in a conversation with C. Along the way, communities were created, friends were made, important discussion happened....
Underground tunnel with emergency lighting – Uploaded by antarcticlemur. Four years ago, I was at work on the morning of September 11 , and I remember desperately trying to get to the CNN website to understand what was going on. Last year, when I first heard about the Madrid bombing, I visited CNN.com and...
Andrew answers to a C|Net articles on the failure of social networking sites (Molly Wood’s Five reasons social networking doesn’t work) by suggesting that the Internet doesn’t need special social networking sites: The Internet in its world wide whole is a social networking place. Molly Wood makes an interesting point, though, when she mentions...
StumbleUpon, guided browsing, and the human side of blogging....
