Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
Today Google employees staged a 11:10 AM walk out in many offices around the world. The trigger was the report that a senior executive who left Google a few years ago had been accused of sexual harassment. The reason why he left the company was never disclosed, and he received a $90 million exit bonus...
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...
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...
Time for an update on living creatures sightings on Google Earth: From Germany, Tom sends the first people sighting I am aware of in which people can be identified: If you zoom to about 250 ft, you’ll see a trampoline (rectangular blue-ish frame, with black center), with 2 boys on it. The one standing...
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....
