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Sorry, Blog.
I know I’ve been neglecting you. It’s been a busy month. I’ve thought of you, from time to time, with your stale, flip joke about a baby being lifted by its head. That’s no way to leave things with you. Blog, you deserve more from me. Baby, I’ll n...
UX Critic: cold medicine
I've spent much of the week battling a nasty cold. One of the last things I expected when sent to the pharmacy was to think about user experience. Doc said, "Get some Mucinex D," so off I went.But what is Mucinex D? I asked for it at my usual phar...
Movie Review: Synecdoche, New York
For the first time since the birth of our son, Jules, last night Stacy and I went out on a date to see a movie, handing the kid into the very capable hands of a babysitter friend. Given the rarity of this occasion, I scanned Metacritic to make the...
5 questions I ask myself before heading home for Thanksgiving
Do I have enough necessary medication to survive the holiday? xanaz (check) ambient (check) 15 airplane bottles of Vodka (check) and so on... Have I downloaded the appropriate amounts of music, porn and movies to fill the time between 8p...
Warum sich mit ARGs beschäftigen?
Jane McGonigal, die Königin der Alternate Reality Game (ARG)-Entwicklung (wie z.B. Superstruct), beantwortete der BusinessWeek 5 Fragen - im Videoformat und mit einem engagierten, spielerischen Ansatz. 7 Minuten, die sich lohnen!! Die Fragen beinh...
Hi-fidelity prototyping with OmniGraffle Pro
Getting a chance to work in industry that you’ve heard so much in school is a really great experience. Today I’m hyped up about designing user interfaces and writing specifications for how things should work. Personally, I’m a ...
Post Script: leaving more than footprints behind
Our journey cycling through Vietnam has been unforgettable. After 430 kilometres of cycling, we rewarded ourselves in Nha Trang (photos coming) with a communal mud bath, hot mineral springs, and combination of massages, pedicures and manicures. O...
The what-if factor
Following on, with excellent writing of Jon Courtenay Grimwood author of Arabesk. There’s a brief quote that’s probably going to save you some insanity in future, if you remember to use it: “About Avatar. You know, back when he w...
Spore, Cider and Mac gaming underground
One of the most hyped up releases of this fall, as definitely Spore, a game where you played evolution and evolved the species from a few cells up to the whole galaxy. The exciting thing about it, was also that it wasn’t only a PC release, b...
Sketchboards at CanUX
I’m lucky to have the pleasure of spending several days at CanUX in Banff, Alberta, plus getting the chance to present the skethboards method with the great folks at the conference. Here’s a sample of what I’m sharing: the slide...
Clarity by skewing
Recently I got hold of this website which has applied cartogram on the Presidential Election results. It’s a great way to show relevance, visually. Some of the images are as below. 2008 presidential election results on a population cartogram: El...
10 Wordpress plugins I can’t blog without
After getting hacked, I moved the host and started over. I only transfered my posts to not loose a few years of content. In the process I had to go out and decide which plugins to reinstall. It turns out it’s about 10 of them: Easy Tube - P...
Day 6: sweet steaming corn
Our final day came around and after spending much of the night before listening to the thwock thwock of the discoteque next door, the tired cyclists got on our bikes and headed out in the POURING rain. Hence, not so many photos today, and you'll ...
"The Much Under-appreciated Principle of Pleasure"
Nick Merritt posits on why Apple creates interfaces with higher perceived quality than their competitors: It is not just enough to make using something easy … When it comes to deciding what choices to make, it helps that a team has a su...
Twitter for Business
I’ve been using Twitter for over two years to keep in touch with people personally, but lately it’s become an essential business tool. About half of CrowdVine’s support requests originate on Twitter. When someone is blocked by a...
Minority Report Interface in Real Life - Oblong g-speak
Minority Report Physical Interface in Real Life - Oblong g-speak The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will ...
Day 5: searing SUNday
A cruisy morning of cycling 55 kms, was a misleading start to our day. We witnessed coffee plantations everywhere, and the coffee beans outside drying in the sun in front of almost every house we went past - driveways aren't for cars afterall. Al...
Day 4: off the beaten track
Today we cycled almost 100 kms. The morning saw us climbing up into the mountains, where we saw mountain tribes including the Hore people (pronounced hooray) for whom we blew up some balloons we had. It is great to see what joy very simple things...
Day 4: off the beaten track
Today we cycled almost 100 kms. The morning saw us climbing up into the mountains, where we saw mountain tribes including the Hore people (pronounced hooray) for whom we blew up some balloons we had. It is great to see what joy very simple things...
Choosing correct peers for peer pressure
Lately I’ve been observing interesting phenomena regarding peer pressure. Most of the things that we do, we do because we’re prompted by our peers. That’s perfectly fine, since this is the way by nature’s design. The issue ...
Auf dem Weg zu Open Universities
Studierende für eine freie Kultur haben vor einigen Wochen The Wheeler Declaration veröffentlicht, um zu definieren, welche Komponenten eine partizipative Open University beinhalten müsste. An open university is one in which The research the univ...
Save your Eggs…
Few days back we had arranged a group competition to save the eggs when they are throw from the roof top in a box. Six different teams were made and each team was given around 1.45 hours and a very small budget to make these boxes. Goal was to saf...
Thinking about Theory (Warning: Interaction Design Nerdery Ahead)
In conversations and on mailing lists addressing the design of interactive media, I’ve found myself growing uneasy with just how little understanding most people practicing in the field have of how they are influenced by the various theories...
It’s a fair game
I’ve been thinking for a while now what’s fair in this system of ours. You see, people often say that it’s not fair to pitch some other companies employees to come and work for them, or in terms of product, that someone else has ...
Graphing Koornk
Saturdays are the days for hacking (after having a great run earlier of course). This time I’ve been preparing a network data set for a friend. The idea was to take a look at who follows who on Koornk. Tools used: their API, Python scripts a...
Hawaiian Canoe Models by Francis Pimmel
Francis Pimmel makes scale models of Polynesian / Hawaiian canoes. They are crafted from Hawaiian woods such a Koa, and a lot of attention is paid to the historical accuracy of the models.
Concept: emotional institutionalization
Further reading Arabesk book (it does have 850+ pages), I’ve stumbled upon another concept - emotional institutionalization. The idea is that, together with assimilation with local culture, you also have to change the way you perceive your o...
Exposing online video trends
Techcrunch posted a great item on online video penetration earlier this week. The numbers are both inspiring and sobering. Among them:YouTube is streaming 5 billion videos per monthOnly 4% of those videos support paid advertisingOnline video is ge...
Day 3: the sky is crying
In many ways this journey we are taking through Vietnam is indescribable. Today, you could simply say wet, wet, and wetter. Our journey is captured here but what is missing from all the data that is captured on our sports tracker page i...
Day 3: the sky is crying
In many ways this journey we are taking through Vietnam is indescribable. Today, you could simply say wet, wet, and wetter. Our journey is captured here but what is missing from all the data that is captured on our sports tracker page i...
Zigron Launches DareMyCompany.com
After the successful launch of PingMyCompany, Zigron decided to develop a more interactive site where employees of different companies can have real fun. It’s DareMyCompany, whereby one company can dare others to compete in anything. For ins...
dorodango
dorodango is the Japanese art of making really smooth, shiny balls out of simple dirt, water and effort. Quite fascinating.
Edit life. Save as.
If you have an Xbox LIVE console and sign-up to their 360 Voice service then your gaming console blogs about you (or more precisely, your performance as an Xbox player). Have a wee read of how one such blog describes the gameplay of Xbox LIVE...
Edit life. Save as.
If you have an Xbox LIVE console and sign-up to their 360 Voice service then your gaming console blogs about you (or more precisely, your performance as an Xbox player). Have a wee read of how one such blog describes the gameplay of Xbox LIVE d...
Day 2: the heights of happiness
Our second day of cycling the Vietnam cycle challenge began with a morning of cycling through more remote villages. Here, we saw very simple lives and the happiest people I think I've ever seen. Everywhere we went children came rushing out to wav...
Day 2: the heights of happiness
Our second day of cycling the Vietnam cycle challenge began with a morning of cycling through more remote villages. Here, we saw very simple lives and the happiest people I think I've ever seen. Everywhere we went children came rushing out to wav...
Day 1:GPS in a data-less world
Our Vietnam cycle challenge has begun, albeit in "challenging" technological circumstances. Vietnam has no data network, so our fancy mobile phones have become very basic. That said, when we can we are uploading to our sportstracker pag...
Day 1:GPS in a data-less world
Our Vietnam cycle challenge has begun, albeit in "challenging" technological circumstances. Vietnam has no data network, so our fancy mobile phones have become very basic. That said, when we can we are uploading to our sportstracker pag...
5 questions for CMPD when arresting someone who is blind
Would you place a blind person into the same holing area with sighted prisoners? Would a blind person be allowed to keep their cane? Or would it be considered a weapon? What would happen if the person arrested was assisted by a dog? W...
Twitterank and the perceived need for OAuth
In the last few days, there have been a number of stories about Twitterank and the way it asks you for your Twitter username and password in order to calculate something it calls “PageRank for Twitter”. Image by ecstaticist via Flickr ...
The Secret to Predictable Results
O’Reilly Radar has an interview with Francois Gossieaux about online communities in business. He’s led some interesting research, and highlights something that’s been on my mind: Most businesses begin planning a community with tr...
Waiter... My Kool-Aid Tastes Funny
I’m not a UX guy (although I played one on TV), but I do secretly want to be a 404-er. I’d love to be able to create something that grabs you visually, while effectively communicating the message to you. I can’t do that, but what I do know how ...
Here we go again… already?
Last night’s The Daily Show featured an interview with eternal optimist Thomas Friedman. In it, Friedman argues that the way forward is through investment and innovation in the energy industry. He even promotes an “energy bubble,”...
Moderne e-Kompetenzen
Über Stephen Downes OLDaily-Newsletter gelangte ich zu einer Dokumentation einer Online-Session, die vor 1 Woche live durchgeführt wurde. Das Thema lautete Mashing Up your own PLE und wurde von Scott Leslie durchgeführt. Alleine die Outline der S...
Daniel Szuc on UX in China
In this show I had the great pleasure of chatting with Daniel Szuc from Apogee in Hong Kong, China.
Brendan McCollam - Without A Traceroute
Brendan McCollam [http://www.withoutatraceroute.com/] is a 2008-2009 Watson Fellow [www.watsonfellowship.org]. Here are my notes at his Haip 2008, lecture - Without A Traceroute - Traveling the world hanging out with hackers What is the Watson F...
Give 1 - get 1
Wer sich aktiv am Change-Prozess beteiligen möchte, kann derweil einen XO-Laptop kaufen. Ab 17. November gibt es diese wunderbaren Geräte ganz offiziell bei Amazon zu kaufen - nach dem Motto: Give a laptop. Get a laptop. Change the world. Ich neh...
How to drive in Fog?
For reasons beyond me, it’s really foggy in Ljubljana in past few days. Some even commented that we could introduce our own version of Jack the Ripper, as the visibility is so low. Having an opportunity to drive in this fog at 5am, I started...
Apple's market-dominance strategy
According to research firm NPD, Apple's iPhone was the best-selling cell phone in the U.S. in Q3 2008.Which, frankly, is remarkable: a company that didn't make mobile phones until 2007, and which introduced its phone at a staggering $599 price po...