Monthly Archives: July 2007

the social influence of obesity

26 Jul 2007 – 17:15

http://tinyurl.com/2xvuqd
This is an interesting finding on the apparent spread of obesity through social contact. But I wonder if there isn’t some predisposition to choose friends who are already like you in some ways (similar behavior, habits, likes/dislikes). This would bias the social networks to becoming obese (or skinny) together, I’d think, and might account for [...]

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thinkature

23 Jul 2007 – 21:19

For the past 5 weeks, I’ve spent a significant portion of my time at work (at PARC) browsing web sites, services, and technologies that facilitate some aspect of the information discovery, organization, and sharing process. Finally, we’re settling on an user study where we will record user’s browsing activity from their home computers. Clearly this [...]

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An experiment for an experiment

20 Jul 2007 – 13:31

I am using a new site called, Diigo, to submit this post. Diigo lets you tag, annotate, collect, and organize web documents you come across in your daily browsing activities. They advertise themselves as being a useful research tool. And, it turns out, I might start a research study looking at how services like Diigo, [...]

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Harry Potter on the way

19 Jul 2007 – 10:52

Big news — my Harry Potter book ships today! I’m sure Leif is thrilled. He’ll be cooking all my meals while I’m consumed by the book, right? By the way, how ridiculous that Scholastic is demanding that sites, like TechCrunch, take down their posts merely mentioning that the Harry Potter book is on [...]

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