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Get­ting the brain to swell

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Clip­pinger turns to Robin Dun­bar and col­leagues to show that there is a cor­re­la­tion of neo­cor­tex de­vel­op­ment (think­ing and prob­lem solv­ing) and mem­ber­ship size in so­cial groups. …the evo­lu­tion­ary suc­cess of Homo sapi­ens can in large mea­sure be at­trib­uted to it... More »

Do you trust who I am?

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Philip Zim­mer­mann’s Pretty Good Pri­vacy was a crit­i­cal plat­form for ed­u­cat­ing the world on se­cure com­mu­ni­ca­tion. PGP en­cryp­tion is so good, that even the most de­ter­mined agen­cies can es­sen­tially go pound sand–it is pretty good pri­vacy to be hum­ble, not to ... More »

Photo al­bums are all but dead

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Photo al­bums used to be the fam­ily bible, vi­su­ally record­ing the event of peo­ple, places and events. It re­quired the acts of pho­tog­ra­pher, ed­i­tor and al­bum con­struc­tor. It was a la­bor of rem­i­nis­cence and duty. As the holder of the pho­tos and the neg­a­tives, onl... More »

So­cially crit­i­cal think­ing

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So­cial soft­ware maps the net­works we al­ready know. Pre­sum­ably, the goal is to have the sys­tems we in­ter­act with en­able or in­form us about some­thing or some­one we do not. Re­cently I have been beat­ing a drum with a col­league on the lack of crit­i­cal think­ing peop... More »


Jump in be­fore all the wa­ter is gone

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It is amaz­ing when the com­ment sec­tion of a blog post is longer than the post. The bar­rier to post is high enough that most peo­ple don’t. The com­ments I re­fer to are the ones that equal in qual­ity and value of the orig­i­nal, twit­ter sized posts need not ap­ply... More »

Agree­ing on ex­pe­ri­ence de­sign

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Back in May, Adam Green­field con­tributed a great ar­ti­cle for Adobe’s De­sign Cen­ter Think Tank space called On the ground run­ning: Lessons from ex­pe­ri­ence de­sign. He be­gins with an in­sight­ful – on hind­sight ob­vi­ous – ob­ser­va­tion that the dis­tinc­tions betw... More »

The flat­ter we get the more Jelly we need

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By now, we have all been told the world is flat. If you missed it then, I am telling you the world got flat a while back and noth­ing will ever be the same. That spells op­por­tu­nity for al­most every­one and in ar­eas that go be­yond find­ing the low­est cost la­bor or... More »


Com­mon can­vas of dis­tin­guish­ing fea­tures

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Chris Chase, a neu­ropsy­chol­ogy pro­fes­sor back in col­lege, en­joyed in­tro­duc­ing con­cepts with the no­tion that hu­mans are more alike than they are dif­fer­ent. It is a use­ful foun­da­tion for de­cid­ing what is im­por­tant to study, fun­da­men­tals that ap­ply to every­one or... More »

Simp­sonized

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Yes­ter­day morn­ing while catch­ing up on some email a Pho­to­jojo email from July 20 fea­tured The Simp­sonizer. My re­sults were pretty good. In­ter­est­ingly enough, I find this two di­men­sional avatar more ac­ces­si­ble than my Sec­ond Life me, Vi­enna Lam­our­fou. Maybe tha... More »

Re­la­tion­ships with mu­sic

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The hu­man re­la­tion­ship with mu­sic is an in­ter­est­ing one. For all of its mean­ing in my life, it is not some­thing I con­sider a pas­sion. I have al­ways ad­mired friends who are mu­si­cians or loved and im­mersed them­selves in mu­sic. One of the pro­jects my team has wor... More »

Med­icat­ing the fu­ture

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I am a be­liever that we are both the cre­ator and ob­server of our own re­al­ity. What does it mean then if you have an over­pow­er­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal con­di­tion like se­vere de­pres­sion, schiz­o­phre­nia, bipo­lar or ob­ses­sive com­pul­sive dis­or­der? The be­lief can still stand... More »