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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
Reflecting on everyware, the era of ubiquitous computing
Joe Lamantia, experience architect and strategist at MediaCatalyst, has recently been writing a column for UXmatters. Entitled “Everyware - designing for the ubiquitous...
From Putting People First
The lamp posts on Brick Lane
Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slow and Under Pressure and a self-proclaimed proponent of the Slow Movement, is the writer of the latest contribution to Vodafone’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branding Means Better Search?
Intriguing article about Microsoft's new search engine, provisionally called 'Bing'. Have not seen it or tried it. Regardless if it is better, they believe that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Laptop per Child Vision
I see that the article below, from the CACM, is now available in full text. Good update. Followed this from within the enterprise since 2005, hoping we could participate...
From Putting People First
Focusing design solutions on social problems
Alice Rawsthorn of The New York Times has published an article on social design and service innovation: “When Ritt Bjerregaard became lord mayor of the city of...
From Putting People First
John Maeda designs technology
On Fora.TV you can find a video of RISD president John Maeda’s talk at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 expo, where he talks about people participation processes at RISD. Watch...
From Putting People First
John Thackara on clean growth
Design Innovation Scotland has published a white paper by John Thackara, entitled Clean Growth: From Mindless Development to Design Mindfulness. It’s the first...
From Putting People First
Talking mobile banking in Kenya
Erik Hersman reports on his blog White African from the e Fletcher mBanking conference in Nairobi. Talking Mobile Banking in Kenya Notes from the panel “Perspectives...
From Putting People First
Wired economics
Nokia’s Ideas Project published a feature story on why technology may be making money superfluous. “We’re entering a time in which products are expected to give...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-25
Ryanair: print your tickets at home or not, you pay Just in case you've not been paying attention: don't travel with RyanAir,Travel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Metaverse Conference
I have been away from the virtual worlds topic for a while now, but still think it has useful applications in the enterprise. See the upcoming meeting below:'Main...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Holland on Complex Adaptive Systems
Talk at Case Western by John Holland on Complex Adaptive Systems / Agent Models from this past October. Good overview for the general modeling and simulation practitioner...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-24
Malay court hearing 'Allah' case Unexpected trademark dispute. Is the noun "Allah" a trademark of Islam or a generic usable byreligion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Permanence of the Record
When I give talks on the Web I often include the caution that you should write knowing that what you say there is permanent and often easily findable. So thinkas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Classroom
How can social media be used to teach and in general help people within organizations communicate their knowledge? I was part of a recent test at Georgia TechSocial...
From The Noisy Channel
News, Search Experience, and Value
I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m...
From The Noisy Channel
News, Search Experience, and Value
I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m...
From The Noisy Channel
NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized...
From The Noisy Channel
NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized...
From The Eponymous Pickle