American Mile Markers. Matt Frondorf,

American Mile Markers. Matt Frondorf, a photographer and engineer, pointed a camera out the passenger window of a Ford Explorer, hooked the camera’s shutter release up to the odometer, and started driving from the Statue of Liberty (well, near it in New Jersey)...

The whole grid computing initiative,

The whole grid computing initiative, e.g. the Globus Project, is very much a large-scale way of utilising the enormous quantity of wasted resources within BigCos. It might just work.

Boxes and Arrows: Taking the

Boxes and Arrows: Taking the “you” out of user: My experience using personas. Thoughtful piece about using personas to ensure that the end-user of the system is accurately designed, rather than some cheerleader or devils advocate of any particular piece of...

Boxes and Arrows: ASIST IA

Boxes and Arrows: ASIST IA summit. Great collection of summaries of sessions and links to presntations, poster sessions, etc.

The Gentry, Misjudged as Neighbors.

The Gentry, Misjudged as Neighbors.This seems relatively obvious: gentrification doesn’t drive out poorer residents as a) the area is getting nicer and b) the longer they stay, the more the supply/demand differential rises and therefore the more they get when...