May
26
Persistent History: I Post Therefore I Am
May 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“An increasing amount of our social interaction with other people (and people-like agents) will be occurring online. Visualizations of these interactions can have a huge impact on how legible these social environments are, what behaviors they encourage, and how appealing they are.�
Judith Donath, a professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, makes [...]
May
22
Dissertation by the Numbers
May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Writing the Doctoral Dissertation
May
22
Wal-Mart and the Vlasic Pickles
May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
What is intriguing about this story is the way that Wal-mart, the largest company in the history of the world, according to Charles Fishman in his recent book The Wal-Mart Effect, is fundamentally changing the topology of the marketplace. The story of the gallon jar of Vlasic pickles is a case in point.
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May
22
Beloit College Mindset: Tech Highlights
May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The items on Beloit College’s yearly “Mindset List” can be seen as humorous as well as a profoundly interesting time capsule. Either way, the social and cultural ramifications of the technological advances implied on their 2010 list are a testament to changes that are affecting all aspects of our daily existence. The following [...]
May
20
Mucinex: Playing Hide and Seek?
May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I have been fighting some sort of allergy/flu/cold/upper-respiratory-whatever for the last few days and, when I woke up this morning, I knew one thing for certain. That little green gobule guy with the suitcase had moved his entire family into my chest.
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