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 …