Automatons, signs, and seeking home (aka, a bike ride through Seoul)
Michael Gallagher Automatons and Uncanny Valleys This post was inspired by a bike trip through Seoul yesterday, not intentionally as part of the UDrift course, but it certainly seems to feed into…
Internet and mobile use statistics for Asia: using data to distill ideas into research
I have been toying around a bit with some statistics on Asia’s rate of internet users as percentage of the population vs. mobile penetration (as percentage of the population) using…
Networks and connections as mooring and celestial navigation: motivation
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. -Noam Chomsky I have been posting quite a bit…
My wife, Skype, love, and acclimating ahead of time (and just a bit of #mlearning)
Up until only recently, I had never thought of Skype as being social media. Now that I think about it, that seems absurd. It is perhaps the most social of…
Google Latitude and my wife’s progress to Seoul
Do not doubt for a moment that this type of application, while not specifically designed for this (I assume), has wonderfully reassuring properties especially as one’s wife is hurtling close…
Sonho Dourado, Discovery Based Searching, and Religion
I have been listening to a track quite a lot lately called Sonho Dourado, the version played by Daniel Lanois. It is a beautiful sprawling track of just Lanois playing…
Google in Kenya
When I went to the eLearning Africa Conference 2008 in Accra, Ghana, we noticed Google (looking by the way, exactly what one would expect Google people to look-young, healthy and…