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Supernova 2009

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

I’ve been meaning to write about a lot of the conferences I’ve been to this year (hopefully will get to it in a follow-up blog post). One of the upcoming conferences I’ve been offered to attend again is Supernova, a conference about “understanding how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world”. From web privacy [...]

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3 points on why government isn’t ready for 2.0 yet

Friday, August 14th, 2009

While listening to a congressional hearing on Enhancing the Relevance of Space, a quote from Miles O’Brien (54:39 minutes in on the webcast) carried a powerful message to NASA and similar government agencies:
Olson:
“How do we communicate how beneficial NASA has been to our society from a technological, from a national security perspective, and from an [...]

Tags: Community Management, congressional hearing, government, miles o'brien, nasa, social media, social web, space, trolls, web 2.0

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First Impressions and Last Logins

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

There’s a saying along the lines of  “the amount someone spends talking about themselves is inversely proportional to how interesting they are”. Beyond first dates and keynote presentations, this opinion directly affects social network services.
Users drop off at an accelerated rate from accessing/signing up for a new site to actually using it. Even if the [...]

Tags: content, first impressions, flickr, pownce, social networks, User Experience, user interface, uxp

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Waking up from a 6 hour nap

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

(img via George Ruiz)
I arrived home from SXSW at 10am, after staying up with friends until 5am, when I needed to leave for the airport. Still in the day’s clothes and make-up, I promptly collapsed for a 6 hour nap.
People:
SXSW was fabulous as always, but different for me from the first time I went a [...]

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3.5 months late

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

No, not a reference to my female cycle as I’m sure the rumormongers had hoped! I’m 3.5 months late on figuring out my new year’s resolution.
In my previous personal post, I stated that I wasn’t sure what 2009 was going to be for me yet. I think it has taken a few months to crystalize [...]

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