Archive for the ‘Sociology’ Category

The miracle of Hudson Street

Friday, June 27th, 2008A piece of elegiac and beautiful writing from Malcolm Gladwell - though there is a point to its inclusion on CDB the title is called Designs for WorkingIn the early nineteen-sixties, Jane Jacobs lived on Hudson ...

Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community

Monday, May 5th, 2008Says Stephen A MarglinEconomists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and ...

The data flow wars

Thursday, May 1st, 2008Way back in 2003 Tomi and I started working on a project called Communities Dominate Brands - today the very things that wrote about have become - well mainstream. Its a crowded house these days.So - here's another road-sign for ...

How do I reach Jan Chipchase @ Nokia and why is Apple so bad? [2]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008I posted on Nokia's ethnographic research and used a Wired article as an example of 2 different ways of approaching product designAnd David Clark commentedIts important to note that Apple doesn't shun user research ...

Evolution of SMLXL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge.Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences.  We were some ...

Gutenberg and the changing nature of how we read and find information

Sunday, January 27th, 2008We take technology as a raw substance and direct our creative energies to harness its capability to do our bidding and it has always been such since made found out how to make fire. We have mentioned Gutenberg from ...

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. And what has that got to do with us

Saturday, December 8th, 2007Danah Boyd at Shift6 mentions a very highly regarded work Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese LifeI will quote at length...One of the essays in this book, Misa Matsuda?s "Mobile Communication and ...

Moonedit: Technologies of Co-operation in Education

Friday, October 26th, 2007Of course it was the great Howard Rheingold who uses the phrase technologies of cooperation around all things that relate to information/cultural economic production on digital platforms that enable many people to become actors to engage, act, edit, and collectively ...

Today life is always in beta: preparing for life in the post-modern age

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007A good friend of mine Jon Barrett saysWith technology the one thing you do know is that you will always be wrong. So you might as be wrong as quick as you can, to start working on how ...

Social Engagement in Stockmarkets

Monday, October 15th, 2007Thy Neighbor?s Portfolio: Word-of-Mouth Effects in the Holdings and Trades of Money Managers is a paper I found linked in Paul Kedroskys blogThe Abstract explainsA mutual fund manager is more likely to buy (or ...

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