I wish I had started following the user stats on 43Urls (people, places, things) earlier. Here’s where they stand today: Do the differences tell us anything? Particularly, that 43People just doesnt make sense to people?
Tribe.net is about to find out how well its members behave when tasked with self-policing their behavior. The phenomenon of the “hacker ethic,” and of normative claims successfully organizing online communities even without legal or
There are, coincidentally, two articles on the face in today’s New York Times. And while the the face of another takes like a death mask to new life, baby skin reborn to smile at the
Interesting article about phatic gadgets in Gizmodo today by a designer at Frog Design. These are gadgets that facilitate passing and non-demanding interactions, through wireless or other networks. We use these things sometimes for their
I’ve got to admit that in all these years I’ve never read any Harold Garfinkel, and that *that* was an oversight! If you are in design, and have not read Garfinkel, don’t walk, run, to
I met these guys at Banff years ago at an Interactive Screen (back in Sara Diamond daze)… Artists are in the fortunate position to plumb the relations between technology and society, technology and culture, concept,
