Generally, I know I’m done because as I’m testing the migration from the current in-store version to the new version, I cringe at how bad the in-store version is relative to my shiny new development copy. I think, “I can’t believe *that* is what customers are using right now, when they could be using *this*.”

What he says next is probably not intended as his verdict on Twitter - a Kraftwerkian development, if ever there was one - but it may as well be. "Everybody is becoming like ... " - he pauses - "a Stasi agent, constantly observing himself or his friends."

interviews of how people get where they are going

And here’s the thing – Ford never left New York City. Instead, he downloaded the SXSW 2008 Torrent File, which included single mp3s from 763 of the bands that went to Austin. (Just under half the total acts that appeared there.) And then he listened to every single one of them and wrote a six-word review of and assigned a rating to each one.

When I interned at Google last summer after getting my MSI degree, I worked on projects for the Book Search and Google Scholar teams. I didn’t know it at the time, but in completing my research over the course of the summer, I would become the resident expert on how universities were approaching Google Scholar as a research tool and how they were implementing Scholar on their library websites. Now working at an academic library, I seized a recent opportunity to sit down with Anurag Acharya, Google Scholar’s founding engineer, to delve a little deeper into how Scholar features are developed and prioritized, what Scholar’s scope and aims are, and where the product is headed.

KY: I guess I was just lucky. I was raised in a household where my father was an artist, and so I had exposure to lots of art classes, and whenever clay came along I was mesmerized. And I used to go with my dad to the library a lot and he would read art books, and I would go with him and read art books, too. And I pulled one book off the shelf one day, it had step-by-step pictures. And I swear those pictures were like one-inch square--a whole book, every page of maybe 100 of these one-inch square little pictures of a man throwing a pot on a pottery wheel from start to finish.

Amos Joel was born March 12, 1918 in Philadelphia, but soon moved to Atlantic City and then New York City. As a child, Joel became interested in mechanical and electrical devices, including electric trains and radio. It was Joel’s curiosity about the dial telephone system and circuits, however, which would shape his later career in telecommunications. As a young man he became fascinated with reading patents, particularly in telecommunication switches, and in high school he enjoyed his mathematics and science courses. He even invented his own switching system in the early 1930s.

Steven Johnson’s opening keynote from dConstruct 2008 in Brighton. Deals with local mapping of topic and the ability to zoom between levels of information based on geo and time. Also about relationships between data sets. Begins with cholera but has other good examples later on, including doing more than just restaurant reviews

Cass Sunstein is himself a demonstration of the spread of the new thinking from psychology and economics to law and politics. From the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught alongside Barack Obama for a dozen years, he has just moved permanently to Harvard, where he and Obama seem still to be channeling each other. Sunstein’s new book Nudge, with the economist Richard Thaler, is an introduction to a variety of not-quite-coercive strategies for helping people get what they really want: 401k savings plans, for example, that would be automatic for all workers who didn’t choose to set some of their wages aside. The general trick, Sunstein says, is recognizing that there’s less Immanuel Kant, more Homer Simpson, in each and all us than we’ve been taught.

There’s an interesting noticing-plus-time version as well. For example, while traveling through Japan earlier this year, I took 1,400 pictures in two weeks. Maybe a sign or person would catch my eye or activate my “spider sense.” In many cases, I only knew that something was up, that there was a point of interest to capture. As a photographer, I’ve learned to hear that voice and take the shot whenever that happens. In a place like Japan at times I wouldn’t know what it was I was documenting or even be able to explain why I was taking the picture (beyond describing the scene as “cool”). But once I’d noticed something and photographed it, chances were good that I’d notice it again—as if that click of opening the shutter coincided with the creation of a new info-capture zone in my brain.

That's one problem with this Thomas Friedman guy - he (the bestselling author of The World Is Flat, which argues the advantages of globalization in the internet age) didn't seem to understand the very simple dynamics that globalization forces redundancy (slack) out of the system. And whenever you don't have redundancy, you have Extremistan. Things are way too efficient, so the smallest mistake blows up.

You need to have a culture and mores and a sense of this is "what people do here." If people greet each other and are helpful, and stomp on trolls immediately and keep the trash in the trash cans, that becomes what the culture of the place is. And that sc

database of wages for immigrants hired under H1B visas - national salary survey database. many details, much data.

contemporary interview with Lisa development team

Katherine Dawn Lang grew up in Consort, Alberta, a Canadian prairie town

I don't even like thinking about this nutty technology-glorifying scenario, now usually called “The Singularity” (also called by some “The Rapture of the Nerds” — a great phrase!) — it just gives me the creeps. Sorry!

a quote from a caterina fake interview on cbc with tod maffin; don't see the actual audio on the net right now

interview by turnipseed about outside.in et al

Jain (2004) on problems with search

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls “a map of my brain”

Interview on the teeter totter in Homeless Dave's back yard.

As of GopherCon ‘92, Ed Vielmetti was talking about how Gopher had basically surpassed WWW in common usage. Today, the WWW is ubiquitous, and Ed’s got a TypePad blog – what factors do you think influenced that change?

Sheridan: Coffee. It’s about coffee. Kramer: Coffee houses? Sheridan: You know, where I do probably the majority of my business networking is Sweetwater’s, Zola’s, Zingerman’s. You know, those are the places where it happens and that’s where I

good, thoughtful, thorough discussion of hiring practices and guidelines

My role with the SL Herald as a journalist is within the “magic circle”—or rather at the edges of it. We sometimes step outside and then go back inside because it’s more interesting to see what’s happening at the edges.

Do you have any advice for improv musicians just starting out?

JM: To quote a title of one of Cecil Taylor's recordings, " IT IS IN THE BREWING, LUMINOUS." Just do it...make mistakes...there are no bad notes!

buttoned up's myspace page w/interviews

interview with Ann Arbor owner of Buttoned Up, personal organizer tools available at Target

Ann Arbor's own Homeless Dave interviews Bill Clinton on the teeter-totter (or see-saw).

Jon Udell interview of dchud, sounds like a good one, will be sure to listen to this one.

talis notes on my interview with john blyberg and jon udell

dog train is in heavy repeat at our house

jon interviews himself on his next job.

ross mayfield interview

story w/photo.

Andy Bichlbaum - see also http://www.theyesmen.org - I think a lot of the readers of Teeter Talk will recognize Alan's name as the perpetrator of this spoof website for the public schools, which he said that you, in part, inspired. So, in a sense, he was

study says you have less than 500 ms to make an impression

interviews from a group led by Bruce Mau

At the French Laundry, for example, I was served a very pretty, very clever little architectonic appetizer and all I could think of was that fifteen to twenty people had had their fingers on it along the way. Ew.

their goal: return pages in 500ms