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)
“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)
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)
Can I sp*m you?
Written on 23 Apr, 2009 at 7:47 in Email Best Practices, Featured Stories, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
After a few years of work experience in the industry, I had decided it was time for me to go back to school to learn some lessons in management. During my B-school research I came across the details of a MBA fair... (Continue reading)
Pennies from Hell?
Written on 15 Apr, 2009 at 7:14 in Featured Stories, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Some call it ‘entertainment shopping,’ to others it’s gambling; some even say it’s a scam. Welcome to the controversial world of ‘penny auctions’ like Swoopo, in reality a highly innovative web-business model, a ‘bidding fee scheme,’ which budding Web Ecologists... (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)
Twitter Clatter
Written on 26 Mar, 2009 at 13:17 in Featured Stories, Twitter, User Stories | viewed times and users have made 2 comments so far
clatter … clatter … clatter … “Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen” … clatter … clatter … clatter … “Welcome to the London School of Economics” … clatter … clatter … clatter … “and the opening session of the Communia Conference”... (Continue reading)
Sold without consent
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 11:51 in User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Though most corporations claim not to disclose or sell user information to third parties, the reality is quite the opposite. During the registration process in some recent dealings with a major bank in India, I ended up giving a relative’s... (Continue reading)
A job that never was
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 11:18 in User Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Once I received an email from a source that claimed to be a globally operating airline company with a job offer for the post of an IT Manager. It was a nice warm personal message, containing details of the job... (Continue reading)
