One of those happy synchronicities has alerted me to two different ways of presenting information information about population growth. And, to compound the coincidence, the same topic was raised in a discussion with David Puttnam that I attended in the same week as I discovered them. First is this video, which was featured in the […]
Human-Computer Interaction
Buy my first book!
Blimey. I’m just filling in a questionnaire for my publisher to help them with publicity for my new book. They ask me to list: “Books previously published (title, publisher, date of publication, cloth or paperback, ISBN, unit sales)”. As it happens, when I wrote my MA thesis at Sheffield Hallam University — Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity […]
Give me back my tags: portable attention data
Having recently moved and been caught up in a silly broadband snafu, I spent a couple of weeks without regular Internet access: the previous entry on this blog was composed in the local pub, which offers free wi-fi along with a pint of Youngs bitter. This interrupted form of net access is fine for keeping […]
Wikipedia to bifurcate?
Just last week I was writing (for my book), “No one is going to set up a new free wiki-based online encyclopaedia any time soon: there can be only one.” Now I’m considering whether I can edit that to say “No one is going to initiate from scratch a…” or should I just delete it […]
Information foraging theory
Foraging rabbit,copyright and cc-licensed by caro wanders by mistake. I came across information foraging theory via Jakob Neilsen, who described it as “the most important concept to emerge from Human-Computer Interaction research since 1993”. Wikipedia has a reasonable overview, noting that “information seekers… use the same strategies as food foragers — informavores constantly make decisions […]
A clutch of future-gazing events to plug
First is the b.TWEEN 06 forum of future entertainment, coming at the end of this week (25 and 26 May) in Bradford. The programme covers pioneering cross-platform work that straddles art and commerce. Sadly I can’t make it this year, but I enjoed the 02002 event, and aim to be there next year. I will […]
Update on playlist services
In preparing the White Bicycles playlist yesterday, I revisited a subset of the playlist services that I reviewed last year and in January. Here are some notes on what’s changed, plus some notes on different contexts for searching for tracks.
Visualisation of music collections
The picture on the left is an annotated version of a possible visualisation of someone’s music collection, as proposed and described in a research paper available from Musicstrands. The segments in the circle represent different genres of music within the collection; the distance of each track (represented by dots) from the centre shows how old […]
Musicube sharing of BBC listening profiles
Through Radio 1, the BBC has introduced a Flash interface to its on-demand ‘listen again’ feature, which enables listeners both to personalise the user interface they use to access radio programmes, and to share this interface with their friends. My personal ‘musicube’ is shown below. The elements I got to specify are the genres included […]
Is the dust settling on podcasting?
Is it just me or are all the bubbles in the podcasting lather turning into a thin layer of slightly manky detergent on the surface of internet pond life? There was a spell last year, after iTunes first included podcast subscriptions, where the response to everything seemed to be “The solution is to start podcasting […]