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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Dry mouth personal epic spike – queue the music…
Have you ever had a period where the events and your surroundings conspired to mash together perfectly to take you away from your ordinary, usual, rarified and all too cool reality you live – transporting you to a level that … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, media
Tagged adrenalin, comfort zone, dry mouth, edge, life, new, risk, work - play
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Corporate Anthropology
I found this story on Slashdot. The dude has a good approach. It’s a messy world with more questions than answers. “I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It’s called “corporate … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, media
Tagged anthropology, mobile phones, nokia, user interface
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Walking Talking Technology
The ritual: Using speech-to-text software trained to my voice, I get to process the world’s media (including environmental sounds) in a way that usurps the originator’s intent and content. The software is as imperfect as my notes are and misrepresents … Continue reading
Come on… put it out there… you know you want to!
I have just received for the 12th time this week a virus wannabe email that purports to say that the writer has grave concerns for this country….etc. In response to the person of known evangelical everything [non-religious meaning] to pass on emails, … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, politics, social networks, traffic
Tagged Add new tag, concern, country l love, elections, experience, future, implementation, issues, politics, present, vision, vote
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Code Swarm
This is a nice post today on visualizing the participation of users in popular open source projects. Good lead in for the study I’m going to do on the upcoming N-Brain competition.
Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, product development, software
Tagged code swarm, coding contest, collaboration, dragon, hydra, n-brain, nbrain, open source
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It is the cosmos, not “Cosmo”
Boy, has that a lot of meanings…. But consider this version of ‘cosmos’… According to Lawrence Krauss of NEWScientist magazine, David Brook wrote in The New York Times in May that “…while we moderns see space as … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks
Tagged comfort zones, consequences, Cosmos, education, ignorance, imagination, magical thinking, myths, Nature, New York Times, obama, religion, science, silliness, superstition, survival, traditions
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Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack
This sucks. Catch the news here. Tim Russert was pretty much a badass. I’m actually fairly sad about this. I rarely miss Meet the Press (it’s a behavior schedule deeply set in). 90% of my election coverage comes via Russert. … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, politics
Tagged heart attack, meet the press, politics, russert dies, tim russert
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Dukes of Hazzard Value System
Take a deep breath as you’re going to cry or laugh at this next post. “Ben Jones figures he drank 43,000 beers, 2,000 jugs of whiskey, wine, gin and vodka, and smoked pounds of pot in the 20 years he … Continue reading
Universal Healthcare – Universal Language
Here’s a speech given by my mother. Aside from any political values, I think it exposes an interesting language (concept) problem we have in our culture – the idea of inherent character flaws. I don’t always agree with my mom’s … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, politics
Tagged conyers, donna smith, health care, michale moore, sicko, universal healthcare
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