Yes.

A point Kevin and I used to make constantly in class: new technologies undercut the logic of social performativity so crucial to the public consumption of media. In other words, c. 1988, carrying around a Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents book used to be able to get you laid (true!), but reading the same text(e) on an iPhone is rather less likely to lead to the same outcome.

We use this all the time, it's true. Via teh Slavin.

Heh.

Late to the party here, but this substantiates my pushback against "continuous partial attention" ya-ya.

Yeah buddy.

Inadvertent diffusion of Google Reader preferences causes family row

"Evidence that humans are optimized for small groups," via S&W. Source of the infamous Dunbar number ("150").

The kind of machine inference I tend to mistrust, applied to the evocation of social networks &c.

The perils of reading without handy Web access: I made a note to myself to look this up when I read Howard's "Smart Mobs" almost five years ago. Just got to it today. : . O

Again, the clarity to see the world as it is - with the notable exception of Jan Chipchase, a faculty I've found surprisingly rare in UX work

Fighting the tendencies that make a surveillance society attractive to so many.

Joe McCarthy on cubicles ("the great mistake"), real and virtual

Love that big honkin' Ford logo...

Hmmmmmmmm. Oh really?

Interesting support for that piece about the de-classing of Bluetooth headsets and Sidekicks I keep threatening to write.

Gary T. Marx. For Stamen, especially.

Conference 28 and 29 Apr

Man is a “connecting creature who must
always separate and who cannot connect without separating."

"File–sharing has become very popular, for many...synonymous with file–getting. However..."