Archive for the ‘mobile’ Category
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 ...
Posted in cities, mobile, PhD studies | 2 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in cities, culture & society, ethnography, GPS, LBS, mobile, Mobile Muse, PhD studies, ubicomp, work | No Comments »
Friday, November 20th, 2009
So I'm redesigning a course I've taught a few times now (CMNS 253, which I'm teaching right now, too) to transform it from a lecture/tutorial format that uses an all-in-one wiki/blog/CMS (Howard Rheingold's Social Media Classroom build of Drupal) into, well, a lecture/lab course in writing for social, mobile and ...
Posted in blogs, mobile, social web, teaching, technology, video, wikia | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
I'm attending (and presenting at) Open Web Vancouver next week, celebrating (and problematizing) with many others the many affordances and limitations of open source and open formats in our digitally mediated world. My talk will likely be rather policy-wonkish, as a current concern of mine (and a crucial chapter in ...
Posted in conferences, drupal, events, internet, mobile, open source, policy, political economy, theory, wikia | No Comments »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Perhaps it would be more appropriate for me to entitle this post with a reference to Cheap Trick's "Surrender" (given that Isabel has mysteriously begun singing "mummy's alright/and daddy's alright/and baby's alright/bla bla bla etc..." - where'd she get that? her new nanny? SFU childcare? hopefully no one's introducing her ...
Posted in conferences, mobile, open source | No Comments »
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
I might start trying to do a "weekly zeitgeist" digest every Friday (or at worst, just paste together some cool links I've found). I'd like to include the sorts of links that contain answers (even partial, or even just plain wrong) to all of our questions, before many of us ...
Posted in critical constructivism, culture & society, GPS, mobile, social web, technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Vancouver Digital Week is coming up soon (May 11-14), and it's a must-attend for anyone in the New/Social/Mobile Media scenes in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, it's an international must-attend event (even GDC is part of it this year, so it's going to be huge in 2009!). So all you ...
Posted in conferences, creative industries, culture & society, events, mobile, Mobile Muse, technology | No Comments »
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
I'm going to call it now - Facebook has officially jumped the shark.
This comes with apologies to those who thought FB died hours ago, when it made another attack-user-privacy-or-otherwise-degrade-user-happiness move. And gosh darnit, if this isn't the type of action the FB population was just starting to get used to.
This ...
Posted in art, culture & society, internet, mobile, SNS, social networks, theory | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Hey, read this:
The greatest threat to mobile innovations like the iPhone isn’t consumer behaviour, cultural differences or reception to features, but epic and unregulated telco pricing. What’s needed is nothing less than a telecommunications revolution in which mobile developers and consumers join together to demand better data plans that are ...
Posted in mobile | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
You might remember this campaign over Rogers' 3G service rates for the iPhone in Canada last July. some 60,000 people signed the petition and wrote emails to Rogers and to Industry Canada about the issue. I was one of those people.
Jim Prentice sent his response to me (presumably to many ...
Posted in culture & society, mobile | 1 Comment »
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