Douglas Raybeck, one of my professors at Hamilton, taught me the importance of a socio cultural perspective on new technologies, technical communications, ethnography, and physiological anthropology.
The Web Innovators Group | webinno.
The Transparent City – Brainiac.
This writer in a recent article on mega cities in Metropolis describes the skyrise office as a “factory for making to do lists”. Hilarious!
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I found this article fascinating since it demonstrates how large scale observation of thousands of bovines can detect patterns in their behavior, namely that they all face North/South. A pair of German researchers are crediting Google Earth for enabling a new discovery into the hidden powers of cows. The two zoologists used the Google mapping tool to study photos of some 300 herds of cattle around the world. What they found was, in general, cows prefer to face north. Of the 8,510 cows observed on Google, some two thirds had aligned themselves in a direction facing magnetic north when grazing or resting.
Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?.
All In A Days Work — Reinventing the Workweek — Green Business Practices | Fast Company.
Journal-ist: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Fast Company.
Innovation is a game of not only imagination but also speed. To that end, Steve Stringer, in Research Technology Management, suggests that computer modeling, which can go down to the atomic level, may replace rather than just supplement conventional R&D.;
This is the best way to pick enterprise software apps: look up this firm’s reviews. They have a special section for Information, Content and Knowledge Management pros.
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State is thinking big on energy – The Boston Globe.
Great article on what MASS has invented, and will..
Microsoft to open first East Coast research lab in Cambridge – The Boston Globe.
Well I have to give them some credit. Even if they seemed oblivious to good user design principles enabling Apple and others to take a large slice of their pie, Microsoft, IBM and the other big business computing vendors seem determined to understand what makes people use technologies and are hiring social scientists and building social computing labs here in Boston. Good for them.
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