Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

So, why go free? No, we haven’t decided to become a no... we’re not just super-nice. What we are is ambitious. A... with and talked with many people in the Pachube communit... they’re ambitious too.
The “Internet of Things” is a big idea (tho

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

I've been semi-silently working on something new. A comb...
* semantic markup
* smart data
* an rdf clipboard
... e is up, and today I created a first teaser/intro video.

Last Wednesday was a landmark moment for the tech industry, or at any rate for that part of it that aspires to do business in the EU. It was the day when six of the biggest companies in the world had to start complying with the EU’s Digit...

Gustave Moreau

An interesting follow on discussion with Divya Ramachand...
A nice distinction comes from the late Professor Rolf Fa ...
INVENTION: is the creation of new ideas
INNOVATION: is the acceptance of new ideas
... ing in someone's head, or as a pretty

How can we produce designs that can be appropriated for ... we design for unintended uses?

Design for appropriation
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A more complete description of the grouptalk discussion ...
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How can we produce designs that can be appropriated for ...

Among the little features I like there's the tag cloud w... tags metadata (each time two tags appear in the same pos... relationship stronger) to highlight other tags while you...

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Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population based ...
PSO shares many similarities with evolutionary computati ...
Each particle keeps track of its coordinates in the prob ...
The particle swarm optimization concept consists of, at ...
... specifi

The framework looks at the following four aspects of hum...
* Physio-Pleasure: This is to do with the body -- pl ...
* Socio-Pleasure: This is the enjoyment derived from ...
* Psycho-Pleasure: This type of pleasure pertains to ...
* Ideo-

For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
His interes

1. Problems and issues in HCI.
In this section I have placed a summary of an article by ...
2. Different research directions.
This section features a summary of an article called Fou ...
... nferences, journals, information on publishers and more.

The peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

The trick to great design is knowing how to think throug... that users don't have to. In The Obvious Interface, Robe... of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that ... put good design principles to work on real-world web app... interfaces

Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ, ?) or Pecha Kucha Night... format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and... It was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytha... Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for young... meet, netwo

But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe

Modern classrooms aren’t working for kids, according t... Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft ... schools are like jails--brick walls, colorless, not very... exciting,” she tells the Georgia Straight, days before...
This grim d

I wish I could end this with a heroic call-to-action. ‮.. Do YOU want to fix our broken government?? Click here to... But I can’t. My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat...
Well, first

Perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of informat...
Source MIS Quarterly archive
Volume 16 , Issue 2 (June 1992) table of contents
Pages: 227 - 247
... Peter A. Todd

Performance comparison of distributive and mergesort as ...
Source Journal of Systems and Software archive
Volume 10 , Issue 3 (October 1989) table of contents
Pages: 187 - 200
... Elsevier Science Inc. New York, NY, USA

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

What are Personas?
Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that ch ...

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our custom... month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of ... customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our... looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we d... our own cus

oundary Object: %u201CArtifacts, Documents and perhaps e... can help people from different communities build a share... Boundary objects will be interpreted differently by the ... communinities, and it is an acknowledgement and discussi... differences

The project deals with data from a list of the social re... the Danish people. The list is the result of an opinion ... consultancy company in Denmark. I have used the context ... opinion polls within each interest to shape and design d... so the rece