Ethnographic Methods – Page 10

Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

October 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends
Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com

You know who you are. You are the employee who ignores mandates from the IT department. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, company policies be hanged. The IT manager might call you a problem employee, but actually y…

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Dan Rowinski: what you need to know about SOPA in 2012 (nextlevelofnews.com)
How journalists are using Google+, by @johnpaul (nextlevelofnews.com)
Unbelievable and true: Homeless Hotspots: a ‘charitable’ experiment at SXSWi (nextlevelofnews.com)
Grasshopper/KISSmetrics Challenge Contestants (grasshopper.com)

Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct

October 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management

Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct | The Crux
discovermagazine.com

Eric Michael Johnson has a master’s degree in evolutionary anthropology focusing on great ape behavioral ecology. He is currently a doctoral student in the history of science at University of British Columbia looking at…

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Ayn Rand is Fiction (evergreeninstitute.wordpress.com)
Lawmaker Wants to Require Students to Read Ayn Rand (politicalwire.com)
Ayn Rand’s Gospel of Selfishness and Billionaire Empowerment Is Plaguing America (alternet.org)
Ayn Rand & Paul Ryan: The Ultimate Idealists, and Hypocrites (medicaresupplementshop.com)
Five Reasons Ayn Rand Would Have Despised Paul Ryan (charlog.me)

World’s Coolest Offices

October 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

World’s Coolest Offices | 2012
inc.com

http://flpbd.it/FJO5o

Lights & Glamour: The Coolest Moving Trucks Ever! (auto-candy.com)
Aston Martin no longer coolest make – Confused.com (confused.com)
Ask HN: What is the coolest JS library out there? (news.ycombinator.com)
The myth of the world’s coolest phone (bestbuymobile.com)

Best-Paying and Worst-Paying Master’s Degrees

September 17, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Best-Paying and Worst-Paying Master’s Degrees | Monster.

Are Master’s Degrees Still Worth It (keptup.typepad.com)
Purdue Cal offers new online tech master’s degree (nwitimes.com)
Embrace Your Midlife Crisis [Infographic] (thetechscoop.net)

How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace

September 8, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Image representing 20x200 as depicted in Crunc... — Image via CrunchBase

How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace

By Nathan Hurst, wired.co.uk

Technology

Five years ago, Jen Bekman founded 20×200 on the belief that everyone should be able to collect art, and that the internet could help them do so. While neither the oldest nor the biggest place to buy prints online (art.com has…

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Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace

September 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Vinay's Hexayurt — Vinay’s Hexayurt (Photo credit: tonx)

Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace.gr

By John Baichtal, makezine.com

Sounds way cool!

Coming Sunday, September the 2nd, we are going to take a look at the basics of life through the eye of the hexayurt project‘s creator Vinay Gupta that will visit hackerspace.gr. Hexayurt is an open hardware house built in hundre…

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How To Start A Hackerspace: Money and Resources (adafruit.com)
How we put a camera 19 miles above North Carolina (wcnc.com)
Trillions for Wars, None For Cancer Stricken Children (rinf.com)
Noisebridge hackerspace explains fair use to Dreamworks (boingboing.net)
Hackerspace Happenings for December 12 (makezine.com)
Can Iraq’s geeks save the country? (cnn.com)
NEW PRODUCT! Make: Lego and Arduino Projects (adafruit.com)
DIY Bioprinter Lets Wannabe Scientists Build Structures From Living Cells (seattle-gadgets.tumblr.com)
We’re Geeks…and We Love Planes. (sendgrid.com)

Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis

August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis.

What if.. You Sleep 2 Hours a Day (jaggedgracecreations.wordpress.com)
New study shows sleep is a hotbed of information (storagebedsdirect.co.uk)
How Certain Sounds Help Us Sleep (news.health.com)
Ask Dr. K: Sleep vital for reasons unclear (goerie.com)
What Happens While You Sleep and How It Affects Your Every Waking Moment (brainpickings.org)
Mastering the Art of Sleep (enfamil.com)
Could our brains be busy wiping information as we sleep? (storagebedsdirect.co.uk)
Study: One in two Brits suffer from sleeping problems (storagebedsdirect.co.uk)
How I Hacked My Brain with Adderall: A Cautionary Tale (longform.org)
Brain hacking: It’s for real (deathandtaxesmag.com)

Employers put offices in social media pockets

August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

By Cory Brown, washingtontimes.com

It is a manager’s problem that Henry Ford and even a young Bill Gates never had to deal with – how to maintain productivity when workers are using valuable company time to update their Facebook status or check their Twitter feeds.

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Employers put offices in social media pockets

Starting Your Career: Use Social Media for Job Interview Prep | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)
The Modern Day Workplace: What’s IN and What’s OUT | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)
Moving From Classroom to Office? Here’s What to Expect | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)
Bill Gates on Philanthropy, Steve Jobs and the Microsoft Product That Never Was (allthingsd.com)
Bill Gates on the future of computing (gigaom.com)
Social Media Strategy for Small Business 2013: A Totally Honest Look at Social Networks (amsterdamprinting.com)
Push Is On To Prevent Employers From Seeing Social Media Activity (denver.cbslocal.com)

Growth Hacking — Livestream

August 21, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

eventbrite.com

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Growth Hacking — Livestream

Growth Hacking is Simply Advanced Product Management (johnpeltier.com)

Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology

August 20, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management

Image representing Amber Case as depicted in C... — Image by Kris Krug (used with permission) via CrunchBase

Amber Case’s Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology
Jon Mitchell, readwriteweb.com

If you want to thrive in the future, it might help to read the manual. Software designer, CEO and 21st century renaissance woman Amber Case has published An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology. It’s a light-hearted guide t…

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The Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology Explains How We’re All Part Machine (wired.com)
Machines Make Us More Human (jtm71.wordpress.com)
Greg Gage: We Aren’t All Cyborgs… Yet (huffingtonpost.com)
We are all cyborgs now: Amber Case on TED.com (ted.com)

Grinders: the cult of the man machine

August 20, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Grinders: the cult of the man machine

Posted by Leo Benedictus, guardian.co.uk

The people who are making cyborgs a thing of the present

Many of us are already cyborgs. If you have a contraceptive coil fitted, or a pacemaker – arguably even if you wear contact lenses or have pierced ears – then you are in a sense part-human…

http://flpbd.it/2I9FG

Synthetic Anthropology: building the human computer

July 17, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Regenerative Economy

Computing is evolving from silicon to biology and now to social sciences.

Introducing the human computer – Boston.com.

Imagining Tomorrow’s Computers Today (news.sciencemag.org)
Announcement: UC Irvine to lead social computing research center (universityofcalifornia.edu)
New Anthropology and Archaeology Resource Network (aaanet.org)
Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com)
A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com)
Difference between Sociology and other sciences (raazshrestha.wordpress.com)
Less Than Zero Anthropology (zeroanthropology.net)
What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com)
Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com)
Synthetic Police Are Coming: DARPA Engineering Autonomous Robots (pakalertpress.com)

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