In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Augmented Information Assimilation: Social and Algorithmic Web Aids for the Information Long Tail
This is a video of my talk at CHI 2008, of my work with Stu Card looking at how users integrate new World Wide Web services, such as social bookmarking, with everyday information assimilation practices
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In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Coding Horror: Every User Lies
The “paradox of the active user” is a paradox because users would save time in the long term by learning more about the system. But that’s not how people behave in the real world, so we cannot allow engineers to build products for an [...]
In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
Clay Shirky gives a great talk on “cognitive surplus,” or how much freaking free time people actually have. What do they do in this free time? Well, a whole heck of a lot is spent watching TV…but more and more, people are participating in [...]
Since I bought my Honda Civic last January (2007), I’ve been recording my odometer, gallons filled, and gas price every time I filled up. My parents got me in the habit of recording these numbers a long time ago, and even though I resisted keeping track of this at first, it actually provides an interesting [...]
