Human Computation - Google Video
what a great talk
by Luis von Ahn, who is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University
- immediately made my think of the Man-Computer Symbiosis paper by J.C.R. Licklider, or Lick - ... took me so long to find (my old link to) that

- shows just how far away i am...







it's also funny



should also link Matt's work golcl which is very much up to scratch ;(wierd title though, Pulse Laser

Powers Of Ten

classic - on YouTube

didn't think this was my MakingMeaning listmania page - but it made me take a closer look . at . --> Making Meaning | Introduction a new book by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, and Darrel Rhea which seems kinda interesting - couldn't not add it to the list either way :)

faking or simply misleading

whilst visiting guuui - as i have just received the new newsletter - and wandering around the old links - i noticed that even though i had left the site and was now at InfoDesign the url still read guuui.com - now this not only makes it difficult to bookmark or blog a particular page on guuui but also on any site you may venture to from there on....

For a site devoted to usability etc. this seems just a little lackadaisical

flowers - zefrank.com - hours of fleur fun [via : matt's mini links] where i also spotted jan

Nice list on online Good Experience Games as mentioned in the latest GE : Why I Play Computer Games by Mark Hurst

Spell with flickr : brilliant

10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time

[Doors-Report] DOORS OF PERCEPTION REPORT - Doors 8 Delhi Special: "So word-of-mouth means everything to us in promoting Doors 8. If you know of people who could benefit from going to Doors 8, please tell them now. http://doors8delhi.doorsofperception.com/"

some nice visual trickery /ABSTRACTION_NOW//THE_ONLINE_PROJECT/
including a couple by soda [via: doors]

Interview with :
The Man Behind the FedEx Logo


do you see - - ---> - - the arrow

from :
The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

via : Matt
http://interconnected.org/home/
who is on top form ;)

Not seeing much worth blogging, but thought I'd better mark the 100th issue! of
First Monday (managed to break this link - and the blogger composer - with some bad mark-up?)

respect to GE (as always) Good Experience - Listening with Respect: David Greenberger interviews

long time no blogging...
prompted by this piece by Joel on Software - It's Not Just Usability "an application that does something really great that people really want to do can be pathetically unusable, and it will still be a hit."
so what will be the next napster... i don't think it will be flickr - for all the hype it lacks something (fmm) but at least you can blog pics from there

two recent (freely available) reads:

Olston, C. and Chi, E. H. (2003).
ScentTrails: Integrating Browsing and Searching on the Web.
ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction.

from UIR @ PARC: Publications By Chi, Ed H.

and

What's Happening?: Promoting Community Awareness Through Opportunistic Peripheral Interfaces (ResearchIndex)

CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (videos!), available via:
Stanford Online
linked to these before, but they are all together in one place now - the MURL Archives - which goes right back to:
11/6/1998
Toward Affective Interfaces
Rosalind Picard (MIT Media Laboratory)

Aaron Marcus, John Armitage, Volker Frank, Edward Guttman -- Globalization of User-Interface Design for the Web - pretty old, but interesting nonetheless

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Essay: A Design Epiphany: Keep It Simple (requires free reg.)

two interesting reads:

The Power Of Design IDEO redefined good design by creating experiences, not just products. Now it's changing the way companies innovate

also staring IDEO
Live from Your Office! It's ... ...the company talk show! If you're looking for lessons to help your company compete or to put your career in gear, just sit down on the couch next to our genial host and learn how to talk your way to the top!

blogger comments and posting via email

Face lift or make-over - i can't decide

New features are welcome, a long time comming if you ask me
Interface will take some getting used to though

(this is just a test really)

Apeer is the Thesis Project of Chad Thornton - which is very closely related to my research!

want some great ideas and sources of insperation from John Thackara ? sign up for the Doors of Perception:Mailinglist

lovely image from the Tom Phillips web site

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - Full text Edited by Michel Beaudouin-Lafon

interLiving - Interactive Thread "INTERACTIVE THREAD is a collection of participatory design methods from a variety of disciplines that span the design process: finding out about users, generating new ideas, and selecting and implementing a design.

Each card describes a specific technique and general instructions, with a design exercise and workspace on the back. The cards can be used individually or in sequence and can be learned quickly and adopted by diverse design teams."

InfoVis issue on Digital Dashboards (some good dd links, well some of them i have blogged so..., at emergic - that dd piece reminded me (a bit) of the moodstats stuff that k10k were playing with ages ago... (...phew, I always spend so long on the kaliber1000 site once I go there - must remember not too in future!)

musicompass.net interesting seeming visualisation of tunes and those who have played them by Dirk Waldik who has done some other interesting looking mapping stuff

[via: dan]

mw2mw
A conversation between Marek Walczak & Martin Wattenberg

which include:
Copernica Art Database Homepage - which has a nive interactive visualisation engine (sort by search letters)

there is also an
Interview--Marek Walczak + Martin Wattenberg on Rhizome

the shape of song is amoungst other things which are bewitched
take the the shortcut

by Johanna Balušíková, Slovakia

from International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 2004

GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery - loads of pbf stuff

transmediale04 exhibition
some grt stuff here including:
desperateoptimists/catalogue/
stuff by social fiction, presentation about bix
and this weird and wonderful filmtext/

from Paul Dourish's reading list for ICS 234C: Computing and Cyberspace come a couple of interesting papers about blogging:

Nardi, Schiano, Gumbrecht, and Swartz. Unpublished. I'm Blogging This: A Closer Look at Why People Blog. [pdf]

Herring, Scheidt, Bonus, and Wright. 2004. Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs. [pdf]

and loads of others interesting stuff (obv.)

[via: OLWeekly]

quicktime versions of The Corporation large version [20.9M] and smaller [9.9M]
~tho' don't just watch - when you can act!

Terrible Twos
by Christina Wodtke
"your secret weapon, “You know, I’ve been pondering over that—what do you think?” Why is this the secret weapon? Nothing shows confidence more than the willingness to admit you don't have all the answers. Admitting you don’t have an answer always trumps bullshit."

good looking article in the latest FM: Finders, keepers? The present and future perfect in support of personal information management by William Jones

Theory and Practice of Online Learning Editors: Terry Anderson & Fathi Elloumi
[full-text online [pdf] - CC License]