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Friday, March 16th, 2012
подаръциикона за подаръкI'm looking for study participants (Metro Vancouver area only) for empirical research I'm doing about mobile apps and location awareness. And, you can win an iPod Touch if you participate.
What will participants do? They will beta test a sustainability challenge application for two weeks (March 31-April 14), comment ...
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
иконографияПравославни икони[caption id="attachment_747" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Visualization of over 16,000 Mechanical Turk workers in the United States. Click on the image for the original (much bigger)."][/caption]I'm always trying to think of silly new buzzwords ("ubitasking"), and I'm also always trying to avoid the hackneyed ones ("crowdsourcing"). Mechanical Turk (ach! 41% of ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
After reading up about the riots last night (and there's so much to read - here, here, here, here, here, and here, for starters...) I went and devoted some in-transit iPhone note-taking to reflection on the 'festivities', specifically in light of issues related to my research into urban life and ...
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
... or, Streethacking with Ubiquitous Media, if you prefer. This is the thing toward which I'm now turning most of my academic affections and attention. Reading Henri Lefebvre, Matt Hern, Paul Dourish, and many others has led me to this increasingly (and appropriately) crowded (for instance, here, here, here, here, ...
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