In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
The social web: All about the small stuff
From the Google blog: they argue that the benefit of the social web and social technologies is that people are able to stay close to friends because they are aware of the small events going on daily in their lives. [...]
This question has been in the back of my mind for some time: What does being social mean, and what does it mean to be not social? Is there such a thing as a little bit of social?
Earlier this summer, I posed this question on Twitter & Friendfeed, specifically trying to come up with examples [...]
In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Official Google Blog: The future of search
Marisa Mayer talks about using location, natural language (and voice), mobile media, and social networks to personalize search in the next 10 years. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleblog.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Ffuture-of-search.html
The Potential End Of America’s Government - The Market Ticker
It is shocking what is [...]
Peter Pirolli and I are designing a study where we want to do a cognitive task analysis of people’s sensemaking processes. Verbal protocol analysis (most commonly introspective, retrospective, and think-aloud) may help us understand the process people engage in while they find, synthesize, and assimilate new information as part of a broader sensemaking task.
Modeling cognitive [...]
I’ve been working on a social sensemaking project with Peter Pirolli at PARC. In the process of designing it, we realized that there were smaller pieces of the puzzle, so to speak, that could be investigated one at a time. The results I’m reporting here are from a study looking at just how virtual today’s [...]
