Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2009
From Putting People First
Stanford seminars on people, computers and design
“CS547. Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)” is a course of the Stanford HCI Group, coordinated by Terry Winograd, on topics related to human-computer interaction design. Below is a run…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Say Everything
Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott RosenbergA history of blogging to date with interpretation along the way. I have been involved with blogs, internal and outward facing in the…
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2009: Day 2, Albert-L
From The Eponymous Pickle
Theory of Games and Economic Misbehavior
By George Dyson in the Edge. The historian of science takes on math models of economies. A bit dense in its historical references, but makes you think.
From Putting People First
What is the interest created by conversational currency?
As the world moves to accommodate
From Putting People First
Conceptual consumption
An article in the New York Times Magazine brought me to an interesting article by behavioural economist Daniel Ariely, who has been featured previously on this blog: “Anybody who is honest about consumer behavior knows that often…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Much Less Mail
US postal service reports the largest drop in mail volume in hundreds of years. Not unexpected, but the statistics here are interesting. Paper mail, like many technological artifacts, will likely survive, but in far smaller…
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2009: Day 2, Interactive Search Session
From Putting People First
How wired gadgets encroach on privacy
With every high-tech gadget we buy, we give up a little more privacy. Many devices today are in constant communication with their manufacturer. And it’s not just consumers who are losing their rights — the technology gives authoritarian…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Knowledge Hurt Innovation?
From HBR, Can knowledge hurt innovation? ' ... A meeting I had recently with some folks at Gillette highlighted an important issue facing the would-be innovator
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Retooling Privacy Policies
Wal-Mart is in the process of retooling its privacy policies to include mobile and online data. In Storefrontbacktalk. Where they talk about the implications.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 27
July 29
Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on peer-to-peer file sharing, with a focus on inadvertent file sharing and security risks. 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn Building
Meeting: The…From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-26
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Netflix game gets exciting: BellKor
This is fun. A month ago, I asked whether the Netflix competition was over. After BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos merged the solutions of many players to break the 10% barrier, I expected them to win. It turns out that another coalition…
From Apophenia
Obsessively Recording and Sharing our Vacations
At Blogher yesterday, the issue of "addiction" emerged in the keynote. A woman in the audience noted that she twitched for the first day of vacation because she desperately wanted to tweet the things she was seeing and witnessing…
From Putting People First
Indian Design for All newsletter features German design
The Design for All Institute India has published a special issue of its newsletter together with IDZ International Design Centre, Berlin. Guest Editor is Prof Birgit Weller. Design for All Institute Of India is a self financed…
From Putting People First
Benedict Singleton on socio-technical assemblages
Benedict Singleton is in the later stages of a practice-based PhD on service design at Northumbria University. In his research he uses “critical, self-directed design projects, alongside literary and ethnographic strategies,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AP Intends to Embed Spyware in Articles
This will not make the AP popular on the Web, in the NYTimes. Though I rarely do, I will make every effort not to link to AP articles. ' ... Each article
From Return 42;
Why I Enjoy The CACM Again
It wasn't too long ago that often I picked up an issue of the Communication of the ACM (CACM) I had to think about John Lennon's line "lift my head, I'm still yawning". Back in the days the CACM was the place to publish yourCACM…
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2009: Day 2, Morning Sessions (Anchor Text, Vertical Search)
From Return 42;
Is Anyone at Google Wearing This?
Is it only me who thinks this is funny?(T-Shirt by Porous Walker)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nearly perfect RFID at Metro
Worked with Metro retailer on their impressive tagging efforts. Their innovation stores were a testbed for these capabilities. A report below on recent efforts and technology improvements. Near-perfect RFID reading is important…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Ownership of Geolocation Data
Good discussion of the ownership of location data in retail.
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Wisdom of Crowds
In Mind Hacks: Outlines some articles and research on the psychology of crowds and the fluidity of identity. ' ... recent research shows that people tend to cooperate and quickly achieve an altruistic and bonded group identity…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-24
Bezos apology is wonderful, and a great leadership example that is to be welcomed. It doesn't change the fact, however, that the Kindle/DRM combination…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-24
Bezos apology is wonderful, and a great leadership example that is to be welcomed. It doesn't change the fact, however, that the Kindle/DRM combination…
From Putting People First
An Experientia celebration in style
(Article contributed by Experientia editor Erin O’Loughlin:) On the 23rd July 2009, Experientia celebrated its fourth anniversary in style, at the stunning Villa Tiboldi in the lush Piemontese wine country. There was a lot to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Semantic View of the Organization: Kyield
I have looked at a number of approaches to try to combine the knowledge within a complex organization and result in improved innovation and communications. We examined simulations, visualizations, agent models and optimizations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Latitude now on IPhone
The Google latitude location sharing application is now available for the IPhone. Can't say I have ever tried this kind of location sensitive social capability, though I could see commercial applications like stock up delivery…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Intelligence in Marketing
Attended a talk by Don Hoffman entitled: Visual Intelligence in Marketing. He is the author of the book Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See. The premise is how our visual system plus brain creates a best theory for…