Ethnographic Methods – Page 7

Genes, Cells and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose – review
Steven Poole, guardian.co.uk

Steven Poole praises a strong exposé of the hype surrounding genetics and neuroscience

We have outsourced the job of interpreting ourselves to the modern life sciences. The decoding of the human genome will tell us who we really are, pledged the…

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Critical Neuroscience: The context and implications of human brain research (CFP, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com)
Reading and neuroscience (sagalines.wordpress.com)
We stand on the shoulders of the genome giant (instituteofcancerresearch.wordpress.com)

Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It – NYTimes.com

December 18, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It – NYTimes.com

With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection – NYTimes.com (jlphilly47.wordpress.com)
Tax Lobby Builds Ties To Max Baucus – NYTimes.com (huffingtonpost.com)
Stupid Writer Tricks – NYTimes.com (everythingscrivener.wordpress.com)

Pacific Rim: robots battle monsters as usual

December 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ features robots battling giant monsters
By Ben Kersey, theverge.com

Complete with the familiar tones of Portal’s GLaDOS

Hollywood seems keen to turn 2013 into the year of the sci-fi blockbuster, with trailers released so far for films such as Oblivion and After Earth. The industry has yet…

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New “Pacific Rim” Teaser (sliceofscifi.com)
First TV Spots for Guillermo del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM and M. Night Shyamalan’s AFTER EARTH (collider.com)

T-mobile eyes Metro PCS with iPhone 5

December 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management

(via Can you say MetroPCS iPhone? T-Mobile sure can — Apple News, Tips and Reviews)</p

MetroPCS recommends amended T-Mobile deal (seattlepi.com)
T-Mobile says first day Apple iPhone 5 sales were huge; device sold like “Gangbusters” (phonearena.com)
MetroPCS encourages shareholders again to vote for T-Mobile deal (geekwire.com)
MetroPCS delays vote after T-Mobile beefs up bid (geekwire.com)

iPhone 5 on cricket

December 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

(via iPhone 5 to debut on Cricket Wireless on Sept. 28 | TechHive)

Cricket’s iPhone 5 play stumbles amid half the predicted demand (slashgear.com)
Apple to Release a New A1428 iPhone 5 Starting April 12th With AWS Support! (applios.wordpress.com)

Adobe finally gives up on desktop software, embraces the creative cloud

December 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

With 326K Paid Of 1M Total Members, Adobe Adds Teams To Creative Cloud, Subscriber-Exclusive Updates To Photoshop CS6
Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com

Adobe is hosting an event today to show off some new updates it’s making for its Creative Cloud offerings, but here’s an advance look: The service is getting a number of exclusive updates that seem clearly designed to paint it as the upgr…

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Adobe CS7? Next Release of Creative Suite to Come Out May 6th (ProDesignTools.com)
Adobe Creative Cloud offers a brand new experience for designers cum deverlopers (it-sideways.com)
Adobe to Stop Selling Boxed Versions of Creative Suite Software (ProDesignTools.com)

DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech

December 15, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Skateboarders have been taping their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of camcorders, but the producers of short and beautiful video Firefly took the next logical step: using a camera mounted to a hexacopte…

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“How Military-Style Drones are Changing Adventure Filmmaking” by Joe Spring, Outside Magazine (jakechristieblog.wordpress.com)
Brace Yourselves, Drone Journalism Is Coming (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Life Saving Drones (enhancedtech.wordpress.com)

Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

December 14, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On
Ina Fried, allthingsd.com

Wireless start-up FreedomPop is announcing plans on Tuesday to start selling an add-on that effectively gives an iPod touch many of the capabilities of an iPhone.

The $99 add-on brings wireless data capabilities to a third-generat…

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FreedomPop Hub Burst now available for $89, offers 1GB/month for free (slashgear.com)
FreedomPop announces new data-use rollover feature (electronista.com)

Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning

December 14, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning
Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com

The advent of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud demonstrates the need for enterprises to develop new ways of harnessing the vast potential of big data. Yet these marketing clouds beg the question of who will help…

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Startups working on Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) (datascience101.wordpress.com)
DARPA Envisions the Future of Machine Learning (spacemart.com)
London-Based Incubator SeedCloud Invests in Big Data, Machine Learning (semanticweb.com)
Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves (zen-haven.com)
Computers Aren’t Smart Enough for Darpa, So It Wants Them to Learn (wired.com)

Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

December 14, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering
Alexis Santos, engadget.com

Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev…

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Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable true natural language understanding (nextbigfuture.com)
Video: Futurist Ray Kurzweil talks about being Google’s Director of Engineering (mysticpolitics.wordpress.com)
Leading Neuroscientist Says Kurzweil Singularity Prediction A “Bunch Of Hot Air” (singularityhub.com)
Ray Kurzweil joins Google to work on machine learning, language processing (nextlevelofnews.com)

Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

December 14, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Michael V. Copeland, wired.com

Mary Meeker (Photo credit: niallkennedy)

Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too.

http://flip.it/sMiw8

Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet

Disrupt or Die. Are You Working With The Social Agency Of The Future? (slideshare.net)
Observations on Mary Meeker’s Presentation (sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com)
Does Mary Meeker Consider LinkedIn a “Star?” (johnbell.typepad.com)

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