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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Wild WebMink
? Challenging Intrusion
EPIC – EPIC v. DHS (Suspension of Body Scanner Program) EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a US group) has challenged the US government over the new...
From Computational Complexity
The FOCS Experience
You can now watch videos of the recent FOCS talks online. Glencora, who I had the pleasure of meeting at the conference, has her favorites. If you watch any, check...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Face: Emotionally Effective Advertising
Now Reading: About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising by Dan Hill. Notably in chapter 4 he talks about focusing on faces. This is a particularly useful...
From The Noisy Channel
The Element of Surprise
Surprise is not a word that user interface designers typically like to hear. Indeed, the principle of least surprise (also called the principle of least astonishment)...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Recruiting for My Computer Science Classes
As the budget woes continue in California, my thoughts are turning to recruiting. If a sufficient number of students do not sign-up for the two computer science...
From Wild WebMink
? Overhaul
Lessig Calls For WIPO To Lead Overhaul Of Copyright System Excellent move from a very wise and capable scholar – I have huge respect for him. He is completely right...
From Putting People First
The enabling city
Italian social researcher Chiara Camponeschi has written a fascinating Creative-Commons licensed publication, The Enabling City: Place-Based Creative Problem-Solving...
From Putting People First
Do people want location-based social networking?
Social networks want to know your location. But it
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gap Promo Location Case Study
An interesting case study in GigaOM of the use of a location-based check-in capability. What this shows is that people still do not completely understand the concept...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Payment by SmartPhone at Starbucks
Report of using a barcode based payment method via a IPhone at some Starbucks. Once you have set it up you can use it to pay your bill via a displayed barcode. ...
From Wild WebMink
? Imogen Heap at the Albert Hall
We were in London yesterday on our way back from a family celebration (congratulations Alastair!) and were lucky enough to have great tickets for Imogen Heap’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Transforming the Healthcare Enterprise
Mark Montgomery of KYield on Transforming the Enterprise. Read the entire newsletter at the link. He provides his personal answer to the question: How can information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US News and World Report Drops Mailed Distribution
I recall reading USN&WR long ago and though I have dropped looking at it over the years. I did have a fondness for it its existence. That was not sufficient to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goodbye Google 411
I see that the Google 411 service is about to be dropped. I had become accustomed to the ability to do accurate hands-free local phone connections using it. Bing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Data Visualization Language
New to me in ReadWriteWeb: A new data visualization language for non-programmers. With the odd name: Impure. The language is completely visual in natureIt's...
From Putting People First
Content Strategy: no longer just the preserve of the web professional
Jeremy Baldwin, company director at Bright Blue Day, a full-service design and marketing agency in Dorset, UK, argues that we should stop talking about content...
From Putting People First
The evolved user experience
Alexander Negash, analytics and user experience manager at the American Cancer Society, discusses on UX Magazine how to adopt social technologies in user research...
From Putting People First
Nine reasons smartphones are dumb remotes
As the Internet and TV converge in living rooms, lots of folks, including the New York Times, have been drooling over the idea of smartphones as next-gen remotes...
From Putting People First