Monthly Archives: January 2008

The Jing Project

I just tested out Jing on my laptop (a MacBook) to see if I could use it for capturing people’s online activities for my upcoming research project. The Jing Project is actually a part of TechSmith (the folks who make Morae and Camtasia screen capture software)…BUT, at least for the moment, Jing if free! Jing lets you [...]

weekly status update (1/21/08)

Taking Leif’s advice, I have decided to write a weekly status update. I will focus on the progress I made in the following week and maybe consider work I intend to do in the coming week. I’m hoping this will help me be honest about my work, keep me on track, and keep my advisors [...]

daily links 01/15/2008

A Tour of PARC (from Guy Kawasaki’s blog) tags: guykawasaki, parc, photos Ah, there are some good pictures of PARC in this set. – post by bmevans

daily links 01/11/2008

fluidinfo: Tagging in the year 3000 (BC) tags: 3000bc, metadata, scribe, tablet, tagging This is an interesting comparison and discussion of tagging.”Jimmy Guterman recently called Marcel Proust an Alpha Geek and asked for thoughts on “what from 100 years ago might be the hot new technology of 2008?” Here’s something about 5000 years older. As [...]

daily links 01/09/2008

Santa Clara University – Center for Science, Technology & Society -Values in Design I should apply for this…Hopefully I’ll be in the area in August anyway, and this looks particularly interesting. – post by bmevans