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[Book] Hooked
From Putting People First

[Book] Hooked

Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Technology By Nir Eyal Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Released: December 2013 Pages: 154 [Amazon...

Predictions on the Future of Databases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictions on the Future of Databases

In GigaOM: Very informative view:Michael Stonebraker has helped create a lot of database systems and has lots of thoughts about where the industry is headed. Oracle...

"Military Style" Raid on California Power Station
From Schneier on Security

"Military Style" Raid on California Power Station

I don't know what to think about this: Around 1:00 AM on April 16, at least one individual (possibly two) entered two different manholes at the PG&E Metcalf power...

Girls Who Code - Expanding in 2014
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Girls Who Code - Expanding in 2014

Girls Who Code is a wonderful summer immersion program for girls interested in computing. In its first year, Girls Who Code worked with young women from New York...

[Book] Design for Behavior Change
From Putting People First

[Book] Design for Behavior Change

Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics By Stephen Wendel Publisher: O’Reilly Media Released: November 2013 Pages: 400 [Amazon...

2014 is the Year of Laughing like Kafka
From updated sporadically at best

2014 is the Year of Laughing like Kafka

This year, I'm trying this trend where I have a theme instead of a resolution. And this isn't just because I broke all of my concrete resolutions by April of last...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Predictions For The New Year

For 2014, that is Cropped from Guardian article. Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all times—he wrote or edited over 500 books. In his Foundation...

2013 in review
From Wild WebMink

2013 in review

WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people...

[Book] Experience Design
From Putting People First

[Book] Experience Design

Experience Design: A Framework for Integrating Brand, Experience, and Value Patrick Newbery, Kevin Farnham 240 pages October 2013 Wiley [Amazon link] Description...

Happy New Year–Now What?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Happy New Year–Now What?

January First always seems to be a good time to start thinking about the future. I don’t generally make New Year’s Resolutions but this seems like the time when...

Contacting Me
From The Eponymous Pickle

Contacting Me

There have been a big increase in comments sent to this blog lately.  I approve all comments, usually within 24 hours.  Comments MUST add to the topic, or will...

Qualcomm Gimbal Developer Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

Qualcomm Gimbal Developer Network

Includes technical specifications and explanatory video:Context Aware (Gimbal)The Gimbal™ context aware and proximity platform utilizes geofencing, micro-location...

Saving the lost art of conversation in the age of the smartphone
From Putting People First

Saving the lost art of conversation in the age of the smartphone

Megan Garber of The Atlantic interviews (alternate link) Sherry Turkla, a psychologist and a professor at MIT whose primary academic interest—the relationship between...

Solving problems for real world, using design
From Putting People First

Solving problems for real world, using design

Formally the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, the D.school has made a global impact by encouraging students to find out what is most useful...

The anthropology of Big Data
From Putting People First

The anthropology of Big Data

The anthropology of an equation. Sieves, spam filters, agentive algorithms, and ontologies of transformation Paul Kockelman This article undertakes the anthropology...

The epistemology of Big Data
From Putting People First

The epistemology of Big Data

In addressing the insecurities of postmodern thought, Big Data falls prey to some of the same issues of interpretation, writes Michael Pepi in The New Enquirer....

Road to Xavier Gamification for Student Engagement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Road to Xavier Gamification for Student Engagement

Gamifying student experience.  Local Xavier University is using gaming dynamics to engage both Candidate students and Freshmen to the experience of the University...

How do e-books change the reading experience?
From Putting People First

How do e-books change the reading experience?

Mohsin Hamid and Anna Holmes discuss in the New York Times Book Review how technology affects our reading habits. Mohsin Hamid argues that in a world of intrusive...

Where will the internet go in 2014?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Where will the internet go in 2014?

On December 30, 2013, John Markoff wrote an article in The New York Times, titled Viewing Where the Internet Goes.  He takes a brief look back at what happened...

Criticisms of Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Criticisms of Big Data

Some good cautions and criticisms of the big data world.  Instructive piece that is worth a read.   " ....  in the race to unlock this promise, many enterprises...
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