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- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 9 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 9 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 16 hrs ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 4 days ago
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Microsoft embraces pain
User-centered design is all about empathizing with your users. When your software causes frustration and pain, it is important that this is fed back to the design team in order to create a virtuous cycle.
Diploma Riots
There is an interesting article in the Times today about Students at Shengda College in central China rioting because their diplomas read “Zhengzhou University, Shengda Economic, Trade and Management College.” They thought that by paying extra tuition, they were guaranteed a diploma that only had the name of the more prestigious Zhengzhou University. The natural [...]
Why, thank you!
New York City is known for a lot of things, but politeness is not one of them. Perhaps it should be. Readers Digest performing the kinds of tests Michelin does in hotels, suggests that New York is “the most polite city in the world.” By seeing whether people would hold doors, help with dropped papers, [...]
Opening Socialtext
Ross Mayfield has “preannounced”, along with some other news, that the wiki at the core of Socialtext will be open sourced in the near future. I’ve had a little bit of a chance to work with a Socialtext wiki, and have recommended them to others. But the fact remains that the barriers to entry made [...]
The social job market
Interesting piece in Tomorrow’s Professor about a hypothetical interview with a top engineering student: Interviewer: “… First, what do you think your strengths are outside of math and computers?” Student: “Well, I’ve always been good in physics.” I: “How about social sciences and humanities?” S: “I did all right in those courses-mostly A’s-but I can’t [...]
iSweatshop
Apple is recently under fire for having underpaid workers assemble iPods in China. Turns out the workers are paid a measly $101 (810 yuan) dollars a month, and are forced to live in factory dormitories. $1,212 a year certainly doesn’t seem like a whole lot, and it isn’t. But it is worth noting that China’s [...]
Librarian under fire for following the law