Connected Action

Bits exist along a gradient from private to public.  But in practice they only move in one direction. Thus, there are two destinies for information: public or oblivion. Information wants to be copied. This is not the same as information wanting to be free (or expensive), or information wanting *you* to be free.  Information probably [...]

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I am very interested in the Quantified Self conference to be held in Mountain View, California, May 28 and 29.  While I have attended just a few of the in-person meet-ups, which were engaging and intriguing events, I have followed the blog and tweet stream closely.  These events feature short presentations about practices, prototypes, and [...]

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Next week I will be attending and discussing mobile social media and social networks at the Mobile Web Africa conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is my first time to Africa and I am excited to both visit and to discuss how mobile networked devices can change social organizations.  Mobile devices are in many ways more [...]

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Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy Here is the slide deck I presented at the “Studying Society In A Digital World” conference at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.  They just posted most of the conference slides.  I took some pictures and posted to flickr.  Here is the slide deck I presented [...]

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Call for Papers: Workshop on the Social Mobile Web Held in conjunction with SocialCom ’09 29th-30th August, Vancouver, Canada http://thesocialmobileweb.org The mobile space is evolving at an astonishing rate. At present there are over 3.5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide and with continued advances in devices, services and billing models, the mobile web looks set to [...]

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The great sociologist Erving Goffman wrote a number of influential works about a domain of social life he called the “interaction order”, the realm of interactions between people.  Goffman studied how interactions are structured in the most common settings like how people pass by each other in hallways, manage eye contact, or show that they [...]

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After a lovely dinner you order a third glass of wine, take a sip and your mobile phone rings. Its your health insurance company’s computer. You take the call. “We’re delighted to see you are enjoying yourself this evening!” the cheerful voice synthesis exclaims. “Please note, however, that you are now at the policy limit [...]

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The next meeting of the “Quantified Self” group will be held on January 27th, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. The group focuses on the emerging practice of recording lots of data about your physical state and activity.  Its where life logging meets populations of people grappling with illness or seeking [...]

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