Monthly Archives: May 2007

Peter Moreville con­tin­ues to drop peb­bles (boul­ders?) into my intel­lec­tu­al pond. This morn­ing it was Social Network Analysis. A short piece sum­ming up how he found him­self con­nect­ed to a net­work of peo­ple study­ing, well, net­works of peo­ple and how they both inter­sect and build the infor­ma­tion net­works that that they are oper­at­ing in. A … 

Continue read­ing “TQR — Social Network Analysis, Peter Moreville”

In a pre­vi­ous post I talked about Adam Greenfield’s essay “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” as an impor­tant com­pan­ion piece to Moreville’s Ambient Findability. In his essay Greenfield also describes the haz­ards of allow­ing engi­neers to design the inter­ac­tions between humans and tech­nol­o­gy iter­at­ing the com­mon under­stand­ing that we the users are, … 

Continue read­ing “The bad­ness of engi­neer designed interfaces”

I’ve looked at a cou­ple of e‑book read­ers in the last month. So far noth­ing com­pelling has appeared. This morn­ing I had the though that the thing that will make me buy an e‑book read­er is: mar­gin­a­lia I love to write in books but I don’t any­more because mar­gin­a­lia influ­ences sec­ond read­ings too much. If I … 

Continue read­ing “e‑Books and marginalia”

Some days it pays to fol­low the bun­ny trails. Having just fin­ished Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability, I wan­dered down the web trail and found a snarky lit­tle thing he wrote for the O’Reilly web site called UFOs and there way down at the bot­tom I found a ref­er­ence to Adam Greenfield’s “All Watched over by … 

Continue read­ing “Loving Grace”

I’ve added a blogroll to the site. Not, I can hear you think­ing, much in the way of news now is it? Prolly not. I’m try­ing some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. Rather than the end­less­ly grow­ing col­lec­tion of links that I see spawned by vora­cious read­ers adding every­thing inter­est­ing they find. I’m going to keep the … 

Continue read­ing “BlogRoll Update”