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Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:53:39 -0500

Modern Algorithms Crack 18th Century Secret Code

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:55:36 -0400

Modern Algorithms Crack 18th Century Secret Code

"Today we an no longer assume that mechanical efficiency is the root of usability, that more features..."

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:53:00 -0400

“Today we an no longer assume that mechanical efficiency is the root of usability, that more features mean better technology, or that separately engineered devices will aggregate into anything like optimal wholes. The kinds of judgement necessary for establishing appropriateness in interaction design are at least as professional as artistic or scientific in character. We need to advance the science of computer-human-interface into a culture of situated interaction design”

- Malcolm McCullough’s Digital Ground, shout-out to figure 1.7. Pages 22-23.

Response: I think the most interesting overlap for me is between design value and environmental knowing. I have done work with usability (reading, the action of) and a lot of work is about individual situations. I don’t know much about persuasive computing, but I understand that analyzing the individual will be less helpful than understanding how crowds work in spaces. This is still a wee bit confusing for me, but I wonder if such work will include all members in the population. Who will be left out? Does any of this work overlap/include universal design. Just trying to make connections with what I know.

Only because a reading mentioned ghost hunting

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:43:00 -0400

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/pl_screenghosthunters/

A Thomas Rickert article on sound

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:35:00 -0400

THIS IS WHAT MADE SOUND IN CLASS.

http://www.writinginstructor.com/rickert

Mapping Sound

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:29:00 -0400

I thought this went well with the discussion of sound in our readings this week.

This American Life has an episode, “Mapping,” that talked about mapping sound in Act II. This guy mapped the “sound” of his office/home.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/mapping

Is Blogging Dead? No. Maybe. Wait, Lacan? Oh, okay.

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:10:00 -0400

So a simple google search has informed me that the death of blogs is a popular topic.

So, blogging is dying: http://gigaom.com/2011/02/22/blogging-is-dead-just-like-the-web-is-dead/

Which is related to, the death of the web: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/

A quote from Wired about the death of the Web:

Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use the Internet for transport but not the browser for display. It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model of mobile computing, and it’s a world Google can’t crawl, one where HTML doesn’t rule. And it’s the world that consumers are increasingly choosing, not because they’re rejecting the idea of the Web but because these dedicated platforms often just work better or fit better into their lives (the screen comes to them, they don’t have to go to the screen).

So, basically what these articles is saying is that: Blogging is dying and its because the web is dying. We are no longer working with “web pages,” but something beyond that.

Okay…still writing.