Category: Ethnographic Methods

  • Google knowledge graph on drugs

    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… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)…

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  • Tech insurgents replace “disrupters”

    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…

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  • Designing your life

    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……

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  • The reason societies become less productive with industrialization

    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…

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  • IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?

    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… http://flpbd.it/Y10fU IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?…

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  • Language generation on the Internet:Reddit is the meme hatchery

    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…

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  • Big data will rewire your brain

    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…

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  • Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

    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,…

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  • Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV

    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… http://flpbd.it/cujf3 Mercedes Rolls Out the Future of the SUV Related articles Smart Crossover SUV to…

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  • Qualcomm tricorder X Prize

    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…

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