Swiss Pattada
A summary of The “Swiss Pattada”: Designing the ultimate tool by Giorgio De Michelis (but you should read it yourself :). The paper uses metaphors of the Swiss Army Knife and the Sardinian Pattada to...
View ArticleLife between buildings
A piece from the paper: An individual weblog is not likely to represent a community, while shared social spaces seem to emerge between weblogs, like in a city where life between buildings accounts for...
View ArticleFun of book reading…
There is so much fun in opening a long wanted book after finding the only place it could be ordered and patiently waiting for it to arrive. Fun of waking up and heading for it, before everything. Fun...
View ArticleIndividual in a public space: learning from weblogs and cities
A slightly edited/linked piece from my proposal for Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2005 (and I’m very excited to be invited :) I have been planning to write a proper weblog post around...
View ArticleEdges
I’m in the middle of writing deadlines, so just a piece from Life between buildings that was hanging in my blogging notes for ages: At the edge of the forest or near the façade, once is less exposed...
View ArticleOn the role of theory
Quite often in my PhD process I have complicated discussions about the role of theory in my research. Today, looking through my Flickr photos I realised that one of them could serve as a good example....
View ArticleBlogging as boundary practice
I’ve been thinking for a while on weblogs as boundary objects (and bloggers as boundary subjects :). I don’t think I’m 100% on classical definitions here, but don’t be angry – I need to play with the...
View ArticleExcursions as excuses
A little side-trip before I get back to work. Two quotes from two books; something I has been playing with for a long time, but still has to find a proper way into my formal research writing. Jan Gehl,...
View ArticlePersonal side of social media: learning from weblogs
I did an internal talk today, trying to put in a coherent story some results from two studies and emergent ideas about conclusions for my dissertation. I’m not extremely happy with what came out of it,...
View ArticleLearning in the rain
It is amazing how much observing Alexander exploring rain tells about human nature: the need for a safe place to start, playing on a boundary alternating between a few more steps to explore and coming...
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