Having had a few weeks to digest both my initial thoughts on Google+ and the experience of actually using it, I thought I’d step back and offer a 30,000-foot-view of where I think things are, and are going, in this space. First: Google+ is still pretty nice, even if it doesn’t quite know what it [...]
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The Future of SNS and User Research
Posted in privacy, research, sns on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Forcing the Party Line
Posted in privacy, research, sns on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The shift in Facebook privacy settings takes as its central premise that the advances in telephone communications of the past century were a bad idea. It is forcing all of its users into an always-on global party line, where the conversations are transcribed and sold to all interested parties.
Research and Generalizability
Posted in research, Uncategorized on November 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks back I took an all-day seminar with Don Dillman, “How Visual Design and Layout Influence Responses to Questionairres.” It was a great course and I definitely recommend taking the opportunity to do anything similar with Dillman or Odum if the opportunity presents itself. In addition to some great walk-throughs on the power [...]
ASIS&T Talk – Bot 2.0: Botany through Web 2.0, the Memex, and Social Learning
Posted in research, Uncategorized on November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I had a great time presenting on my work with the Bot2.0 project earlier today at ASIS&T; you can find a copy of the talk here [.pdf]. Thanks to Miguel Ruiz for organizing the panel, moderating and presenting, to my co-panelists Bryan Heidorn and Nathan Hall, and everyone who came out to listen and ask [...]
A Future Academic Discourse
Posted in research on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Phil Edwards pointed this morning to an excellent article from Inside Higher Ed on the impossibility of keeping up with current scholarship in academia, and asking what the way forward might be: We have collectively created the equivalent of an academic monsoon over the past three decades, with no change in the forecast for the [...]
On Writing
Posted in research on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite authors, Jonathan Carroll, maintains a decidedly non-techy blog (Bill Gibson and Charlie Stross, not surprisingly, tend to be much more webizens in their online writings). He’ll sometimes share links but usually it’s small observations of the wonder of the mundane (his or his readers’), or excerpts from his writing that are [...]
Song of the Day/Question of the Day 20081217
Posted in research on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Real Long Distance“/Josh Ritter What is the lag between proposal of new theories in a field and their widespread adoption (if they are adopted at all)? Is there a consistent model by field for this lag, or for adoption? What would be the important factors to examine in a cross-field metanalysis of new theory adoption?
Song of the Day/Question of the Day 20081126
Posted in research on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Black Swan“/Thom Yorke What are the factors that lead to rationalization of markets – in goods, services, thoughts, artistic expressions – online? How does this compare with rationalization of markets in a city pre-newspaper in the newspaper era in the phone book era
Status Updates
Posted in research on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a busy fall for me offline. My continuing work with the Bot2.0 project was a big focus, as was research on Facebook and Flickr use patterns. The former resulted in a poster at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, which you can get here [PDF], and also in a presentation [...]
Gamers
Posted in research, Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As Fred noted, there is a new, excellent-as-always report out from the Pew Internet & American Life Project – “Teens, Video Games, and Civics.” [PDF] To get it out of the way up top – no, not really, there’s not much positive correlation in terms of civics and game-playing. Nor negative. This is in part [...]
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