Archive for the ‘mobile’ Category

Recruiting Android users for mobile app research, March 31-April 14

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 ...

ubitasking. Taylorism. The horror…

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 ...

Laboratory Life: Seeking input from YOU on course design

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 ...

Open Web Vancouver

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 ...

summer summer summer summer/it’s like a merry-go-round

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 ...

Friday Zeitgeist: GeoChat, Twitter filters, Street Hacks, Youtube FAIL

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 ...

Vancouver Digital Week, Cossette Convergence 09, and the Future of Mobile

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 ...

Sharkbook and Twitnets

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 ...

Canada, Japan: iPhone Go Home

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 ...

Canada’s iPhone pricing monopoly

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 ...