Ethnographic Methods – Page 8

Google knowledge graph on drugs

December 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs
by Casey Newton, cnet.com

Google’s evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine.

Searching for information about medicine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs injected into your search…

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Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)
LoveFlutter Finds Your Match Using Google’s Knowledge Graph (mashable.com)
Google Harnesses Knowledge Graph, Facial Recognition to Give Movie Insight (mashable.com)
Your Brand Needs a Google Knowledge Graph. Here’s How to Get It. (lorirtaylor.com)

Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”

December 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat
The Editors, betabeat.com

Just don’t call them disrupters.

By 11/14 11:30am

Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twitter and Square, recently tried to disabuse the tech industry of its infatuation with the word ‘disruption.’ “We don’t want ‘disruption,’ where we just move…

Meet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents | Betabeat http://flip.it/WgfQz http://flip.it/bz0gh

Jack Dorsey on what succeeded for Twitter (blogs.adobe.com)
Jack Dorsey on Launching Twitter and His Top Advice for Young Treps (entrepreneur.com)
Tech guru wants to be NYC mayor (cnn.com)

Why creative writers are the best tech futurists

December 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction – “Sex with Technology”
Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net

Here’s an exclusive excerpt from Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction, by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel.

Many designers enjoy the interfaces seen in science fiction films and television shows. Freed from …

Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction – “Sex with Technology” – Boing Boing http://flip.it/YvWah http://flip.it/fE3Yh

Illuminated Sci-Fi Editorials – The Awakening DEW Fashion Story is Futuristically Fierce (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)

Designing your life

December 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management

How To Design a Lucky Life
Trent Hamm, lifehacker.com

Is luck a supernatural thing that we have no control over, represented by four leaf clovers and gold pots at the end of the rainbow? For The Simple Dollar’s Trent Hamm, luck is defined as the result of some of the many random events in life…

How To Design a Lucky Life http://flip.it/GsQlS http://flip.it/L6Glh

Frog predicts tech trends of 2013

December 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

frog’s 20 Tech Trends for 2013
core77.com

Click for full-sized image. Download the full poster here.With 13 offices spread across the world, the designers, strategists and technologists that make up the world of frog have a unique global perspective on trends that effect business,…

RT @core77: What #Tech trends should you be on your radar? @frogdesign has 20 for #2013: http://flip.it/lg4r6

It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane…No, Wait…It’s a Flying Frog? (animalpalooza.wordpress.com)
Spring brings Michigan’s annual frog and toad survey; want to volunteer? (mlive.com)
2013 Tech Trends (ritholtz.com)

The reason societies become less productive with industrialization

December 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense)
Alan Henry, lifehacker.com

The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably spend more…

Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) http://flip.it/EN0Xh http://flip.it/q0ptO

How We Work: Alan Henry’s Favourite Gear And Productivity Tricks (lifehacker.com.au)
Google loved Orkut more than Reader and other myths debunked (soshitech.com)

IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?

December 4, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management

English: mobile phone text message (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com

Pity the poor text message — a mere 20 years young this week and already they are talking about its retirement party. Actually, nobody holds retirement parties anymore, do they? We don’t retire from our jobs, we get pink-slipped. Which is apparen…

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IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?

How do you get out of a text message with keyboard up? (forums.crackberry.com)

Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery

December 4, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

English: An example of the “Whose Responsible This?” meme, using File:Hindenberg.JPG as the background. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com

The Erkernermerst

JOHNSON reads Reddit from time to time. Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme hatchery, is an incubator of new trends in written language. The Internet has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed …

RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme hatchery, is an incubator of new trends in written language http://flpbd.it/HCtVs http://flpbd.it/TtciG

Language on the Internet

The lifespan of a meme: The rise and fall of Grumpy Cat and other Internet celebrities (digitaltrends.com)
5 Awesome Meme Generators On The Web (makeuseof.com)

Big data will rewire your brain

December 2, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life
Juan Enriquez, inc.com

Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general.

Most modern humans are now attempting to cram more data into their heads in a single day than most of our…

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Are we Jumping the Shark on Big Data for HR? (workforceplanning.wordpress.com)
Third Annual Government Big Data Forum: Post Event Request (sys-con.com)
Big Crud Isn’t Big Data (codecraft.co)
The Big Bang of Big Data (emcplus.emc.com)
Who Owns (really owns) “Big Data” (blogs.gartner.com)
Courting Big Data Talent (acquia.com)

Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

December 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City
By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com

“Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem.

In 2010, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design published…

RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City http://flpbd.it/uKLAz

Replace a student or staff iPad in 10 minutes or less. (schoolipads.wordpress.com)
Trego allows users to wear their iPad (gizmag.com)
25 Ways The iPad Has Taken Over The World In Just Three Years [Gallery] (cultofmac.com)
iPad as the the Teacher’s Pet (elearningstuff.net)

Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV

November 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Norwegian military MB240GD (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Damon Lavrinc, wired.com

LOS ANGELES, California – Geländewagen. It’s not an Austrian insult or some obscure epithet from the Eastern Bloc; it’s Mercedes-Benz’ iconic SUV. Originally crafted with a ruler and a chisel for military use, it eventually went…

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Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV

Smart Crossover SUV to Arrive in 2016 (autoevolution.com)
Ford Motor Company (F), General Motors Company (GM)…Luxury Cars Are a Booming Business (insidermonkey.com)
IMAGES: Mercedes to launch G63 SUV on Feb 19 (rediff.com)
Next Mercedes-Benz navigation system will be Garmin-powered (reviews.cnet.com)
Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz Immortalized In Film (visual.ly)

Qualcomm tricorder X Prize

November 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The Thermometer?
Cormac Foster, readwrite.com

The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize promises to turn everybody into a Doctor McCoy by 2016. It could change everything about the way we practice medicine. But are we ready for it?

If you’re a redshirt thinking you might have a case of…

RT @RWW: The Tricorder: The Biggest Thing In Home Medical Care Since The Thermometer? by @CormacFoster http://flpbd.it/bNJpL http://flpbd.it/NmUB9

FASTER, PLEASE: Available soon – a tricorder, a la ‘Star Trek.’ “The famed X Prize Foundation, wh… (pjmedia.com)
What Happens When High School Students Take A Stab At The Tricorder X Prize? (fastcoexist.com)
Diamandis: Tricorder X Prize Offers $10 Million to Build Star Trek Inspired Health Scanner (singularityhub.com)
Available soon — a tricorder, a la ‘Star Trek’ (usatoday.com)
Tricorders Soon Won’t Be Just for Star Trek (sci-tech-today.com)
Digital Medicine: Machines for living (bbc.co.uk)
Home-made tricorder using a Raspberry Pi (bradfortner.wordpress.com)

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