Five Year Mission is an Indiana band writing songs inspired by Star Trek. They were the subject of an HCI/d course research assignment on music and music culture.
A Troll Case Study
Courtney Stanton posted some thoughts in a blog post. 900 comments later, she had an interesting Ignite talk about the nature of Trolls.
Empathy and Diversity
Political forums are constructed on actor networks. As technology allows us to re-think how we govern, we also have to balance the value of expertise, diversity, and the structure of our networks to allow for both information flow and behavior change.
My Favorite Favorites
Four years of Twitter yields a lot of wit and wisdom. Here are 50 tweets that caught my eye.
Battling Otherizing
When our goals are to persuade, frustration surfaces in the form of hyperbole and presumption about the motivations and expectations of others. Elizabeth Lesser’s solution is to take those people to lunch.
Why Paywalls Are Bad For (Most) Communities
For a local newspaper like the Herald-Times, financial sustainability has to be one of the big goals that their policies and actions must support. I suspect that isn’t their only goal.
Prepping for HTML5
As more PC tablets ready to join the iPad on the market, web programmers will benefit from embracing HTML5.