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Tomorrow, June 15,  is GS1 MobileCom Day
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tomorrow, June 15, is GS1 MobileCom Day

Always informative value from GS1. Have worked with them for a number of years and reported on their activities here:Tomorrow (Tuesday 15th June) is GS1 MobileCom...

Some CHI papers that we like
From Putting People First

Some CHI papers that we like


? Political Costs Prevent Actual Savings
From Wild WebMink

? Political Costs Prevent Actual Savings

Proprietary technology is a waste of money, says Kroes The speech by Neelie Kroes last week in Brussels was very carefully constructed and avoided almost all mention...

Behavioral Profiling at Airports
From Schneier on Security

Behavioral Profiling at Airports

There's a long article in Nature on the practice: It remains unclear what the officers found anomalous about George's behaviour, and why he was detained. The TSA's...

? Your Chance To Reform
From Wild WebMink

? Your Chance To Reform

The Open Source Initiative is ready for a refit, and it needs your help to make it happen.

Engineering a brighter future
From Putting People First

Engineering a brighter future


The Permanence of Social Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Permanence of Social Data

How much should social network based strategies depend on data from the behavior of those sites? Evan Schuman writes about this in StoreFrontBacktalk. Most social...

Carr vs Pinker
From The Eponymous Pickle

Carr vs Pinker

In Slashdot: Another look at the disagreement between the two Harvard associated thinkers Steven Pinker and David Carr. Does the availability of the Internet hurt...

Who Owns the Data Model?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Who Owns the Data Model?

This topic recently came up in a meeting/ From Information Management.

links for 2010-06-13
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-06-13

The Onion Sports Introduction To World Cup Soccer Since the World Cup seems to be as inescapable as death and taxes, here's a vital guide to understanding its esoterica...

Book: Screen Future
From Putting People First

Book: Screen Future


William J. Mitchell (MIT) passed away
From Putting People First

William J. Mitchell (MIT) passed away


Pepsico Makes a Call for Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pepsico Makes a Call for Innovation

In Consumer Goods Technology:" ... A new program welcomes outside innovation into the organization to push its marketing and communications expertise to new levels...

Mind Over Mass Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mind Over Mass Media

Always interesting Steven Pinker writes an opinion piece in the NYT entitled Mind over Mass Media. ' ... NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the...

From Apophenia

(Newbie note: If you have never heard of 4chan, start with the Wikipedia entry and not the website itself. The site tends to offend many adults’ sensibilities....

Hectic Week, Finally Over!
From My Biased Coin

Hectic Week, Finally Over!

Co-located conferences make for a hectic week!  Again, my thanks to the Microsoft local arrangement team (especially Paul Oka) for setting up STOC, which I thought...

Closing the digital frontier
From Putting People First

Closing the digital frontier


The defense of computers, the Internet and our brains
From Putting People First

The defense of computers, the Internet and our brains


Using stories for a better user experience
From Putting People First

Using stories for a better user experience


How Blind to Change are We?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Blind to Change are We?

From the BBC, via Richard James. A good piece about how neuroscience and artificial intelligence have been exploring how our filters work and don't work when we...
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