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 is literally “whelming”? …You ever had that? I have. I am doing it again; perhaps [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Dry mouth personal epic spike – queue the music…
Posted in analysis of behavior, media, tagged adrenalin, comfort zone, dry mouth, edge, life, new, risk, work - play on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Interesting Cellular Automata
Posted in automata, information theory, tagged cellular automata, rule 55339 on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Corporate Anthropology
Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, media, tagged anthropology, mobile phones, nokia, user interface on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 anthropology”, but personally I’m more comfortable with “design research“, because I’m not an anthropologist by training. [...]
Code Swarm
Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, product development, software, tagged code swarm, coding contest, collaboration, dragon, hydra, n-brain, nbrain, open source on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack
Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, politics, tagged heart attack, meet the press, politics, russert dies, tim russert on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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. Man, what a schedule change.
Beyond that though, this does change the election. Can’t predict how, but [...]
Universal Healthcare – Universal Language
Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, tagged conyers, donna smith, health care, michale moore, sicko, universal healthcare on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 language or her conclusions, but I do agree that attacking our many difficulties in society [...]
