Coherent sarcasm
Written on 24 Nov, 2009 at 2:37 in User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Quick post – was going to work on a website when this caught my eye. In case Amazon cleans it, that is a product for a ‘steering wheel desk.’ Clearly a horrid idea due to inevitable misuse. But the remarkable... (Continue reading)
Innovation – New Ideas
Written on 24 Nov, 2009 at 1:36 in Featured Stories, Innovation | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Separately from my occasional work on Web Coherence, I’m involved with a number of other projects. One of those, that I’ve mentioned before, is VRM – Vendor Relationship Management – led out of the Berkman Centre at Harvard by Doc... (Continue reading)
“News” Aggregation
Written on 18 Oct, 2009 at 20:32 in Featured Stories, Social Networks, Twitter, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
So we’ve been a bit quiet – something to do with the transition from academia to the real world again, methinks. But that’s over now, at least for me. (Remember – you’re supposed to get involved too.) Anyhow, a recent... (Continue reading)
A new standard for personal information management
Written on 7 Jul, 2009 at 5:08 in Featured Stories, Web Creatures | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
I had lunch the other day with Adriana Lukas of VRM-London fame. One of the topics that came up – I have no idea how – involved receiving emails… Facebook messages… incoming tweets.. … Erm. Incoming ‘information.’ And we got... (Continue reading)
Another thing to watch.
Written on 16 Jun, 2009 at 9:54 in Ambient Intelligence, Featured Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
The SANS Internet Storm Center and the Register made an interesting observation today – it seems the new ‘smart’ power meters are less secure than the modern P2P client, and very easy to disrupt. What’s significant about this is not... (Continue reading)
A return – and the Slashdot effect
Written on 26 May, 2009 at 21:19 in Web Creatures | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
So it’s been quiet here, pretty much by force. Heeman and I both had massive amounts of studies to attend to, and Ian made sure that we didn’t *think* about writing on Web Coherence. However, it’s time to get back... (Continue reading)
Google Adwords, meet GReader
Written on 24 Apr, 2009 at 9:11 in User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Just a note here… This morning I was browsing my feedlist (nevermind why I was up in the AM, I assure you that it’s not something I care to repeat (; .) At the end of a post by a... (Continue reading)
Buried as irrelevant
Written on 20 Apr, 2009 at 18:42 in Featured Stories, Spam, Web Creatures | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
I’m a perpetual reader of xkcd. For those poor souls who aren’t aware, it’s a webcomic that has an immense following. Not only is it insightful into web culture, it has it’s own coherent effects. An example can be found... (Continue reading)
Web Ecologists wanted
Written on 13 Apr, 2009 at 23:24 in Featured Stories, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
So far on Web Coherence we’ve been exploring many different phenomena. Web vigilantism, twitter clatter, the trail of online activity, and some of our earlier work on email spam exploration – that we still want you to perform, by the... (Continue reading)
Conference Twitting
Written on 28 Mar, 2009 at 5:57 in Our Experiments, Twitter, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 3 comments so far
A couple days ago fellow webcoherence author Ian Angell wrote about the clatter he (and 80 other people in the room) were constantly immersed in during the first day of the Communia conference. Ian closed with ‘at least the twitterers... (Continue reading)
