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Breakup with your or­ga­ni­za­tion with­out leav­ing

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So­phis­ti­cated or­ga­ni­za­tions con­struct re­la­tion­ships with the peo­ple that en­able the group. Even if all you do is punch the time clock at work, part of your iden­tity is as­so­ci­ated with your job, the build­ing you work in, the com­pany you work for and the peo­ple ... More »

More vo­cal and alone. Sext me?

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Last month I fin­ished au­thor­ing a chap­ter sub­mis­sion on how so­cial ar­ti­facts me­di­ate the del­uge of con­tent a so­cial net­work con­sumes and how di­ver­sity of par­tic­i­pa­tion is an im­per­a­tive to keep us from French in­hal­ing our tweets. We are liv­ing in a time of cont... More »

I think ICANN

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ICANN is loos­en­ing the rules around do­main suf­fix at the detri­ment of hav­ing any mean­ing and com­pre­hen­sion em­bod­ied in a host­name. URLs need more thought, not free­dom. Even ICANN’s CEO brings the move down to van­ity plate level con­tri­bu­tion. Ap­par­ently, the ... More »

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 »

Messin with the iPhone

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Peo­ple are sen­si­tive about tech­nol­ogy they bond with and the iPhone is a re­cent ex­am­ple. In­foes­thet­ics picked up Ed­ward Tufte’s com­ments and cri­tique of the iPhone and the re­ac­tion of Christo­pher Fa­hey, the in­for­ma­tion ar­chi­tec­ture prac­tice lead at Be­hav­ior. Y... 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 »

In­vi­ta­tion is in the ac­tion

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Face­Book pre­sents in­ter­est­ing fod­der around a va­ri­ety of top­ics in­clud­ing per­sonal pri­vacy, af­fil­i­a­tion and com­mu­nity build­ing. In some cases, those top­ics cre­ate in­ter­est­ing ten­sion with each other. For ex­am­ple, in cre­at­ing your pro­file you might add all of y... 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 »