TimBatchelder

Category: Ethnographic Methods

  • Looking Down the Road: A Systems Approach to Futures Studies by Hamilton College anthropologist Douglas Raybeck

      Amazon.com: Looking Down the Road : A Systems Approach to Futures Studies (9781577661160): Douglas Raybeck: Books.   Douglas Raybeck, one of my professors at Hamilton, taught me the importance of a socio cultural perspective on new technologies, technical communications, ethnography, and physiological anthropology.     Related articles   Anthropologists Approve Comprehensive Overhaul of Ethics…

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  • The Web Innovators Group | webinno

    The Web Innovators Group | webinno. Related articles Vizibility A Side Dish At Web Innovators Group Event (prweb.com) Startup Innovation events in Boston (dondodge.typepad.com) Boston startup events for Sept. 24-29 (powered by Greenhorn Connect) (bizjournals.com) Boston startup events, resources, people you need to know (dondodge.typepad.com)

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  • The Transparent City: The Sky-rise office as a “to do list” factory

      The Transparent City – Brainiac.   This writer in a recent article on mega cities in Metropolis describes the skyrise office as a “factory for making to do lists”. Hilarious!     Related articles   The High Rise Slums of Venezuela (neatorama.com) Man climbs Chicago skyscraper with bionic leg – Houston Chronicle (chron.com) Talking…

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  • Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery

    Welcome to the Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery. Related articles Best Instagram Photos Of The Frankenstorm [Gallery] (cultofmac.com)  

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  • Google Earth Uncovers Cow GPS

      I found this article fascinating since it demonstrates how large scale observation of thousands of bovines can detect patterns in their behavior, namely that they all face North/South. A pair of German researchers are crediting Google Earth for enabling a new discovery into the hidden powers of cows. The two zoologists used the Google mapping tool to…

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  • Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?

    Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?. Related articles ADHD Symptoms In Toddlers (answers.com) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury, suicide as they enter adulthood (sciencedaily.com) Irregular sleep patterns linked to ADHD-like symptoms, says study (time4sleep.co.uk) Is there a link between ADHD and spectacular financial failures? (guardian.co.uk) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury,…

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  • Reinventing the Workweek with Green Business Practices

    All In A Days Work — Reinventing the Workweek — Green Business Practices | Fast Company. Related articles Opinion: Be More Productive. Shorten the Workweek. (nytimes.com) Be More Productive. Shorten the Workweek. (andsp.com) US DATA: Aug Dallas Fed Svcs Outlook Survey activity. (forexlive.com) Is Monday really the worst day of the workweek? (bizjournals.com) It’s Sick…

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  • Steve Stringer: Computer modeling will replace conventional R&D

    Journal-ist: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Fast Company. Innovation is a game of not only imagination but also speed. To that end, Steve Stringer, in Research Technology Management, suggests that computer modeling, which can go down to the atomic level, may replace rather than just supplement conventional R&D.; Related articles Fast Company Is Looking For A Creative Services…

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  • Forrester Research: How to pick enterprise software

    Forrester Research : Home. This is the best way to pick enterprise software apps: look up this firm’s reviews. They have a special section for Information, Content and Knowledge Management pros. Related articles Forrester: Tablet ownership rising steadily (lenovo.com) Getting to Business Value Webinar (slideshare.net) How Agencies Should Help the Global CMO (greatfinds.icrossing.com) Understanding the…

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  • Transmission: Best mac bit torrent client

    Transmission. Best mac bit torrent client Related articles Transmission (Italiano) (wiki.archlinux.org) How to Speed Up BitTorrent Downloads on Linux (junauza.com) Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies (archive.org) Transmission BitTorrent XSS Vulnerability (seclists.org) Apple Says Yes To BitTorrent Remote Transmission RPC For iOS (cultofmac.com) Transmission 2.61 Now Requires GTK3 (news.softpedia.com) Transmission 2.60 Has…

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  • State is thinking big on energy

      State is thinking big on energy – The Boston Globe. Great article on what MASS has invented, and will.. Related articles MassChallenge’s tech, energy & consumer product startups (slideshow) (bizjournals.com) How New York Is Going Green (abcnews.go.com) Why Boston Is One Of The World’s Smartest Cities (fastcoexist.com) Boston TechStars Fall Session Kicks Off With…

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  • Microsoft to open first East Coast research lab in Cambridge

    Microsoft to open first East Coast research lab in Cambridge – The Boston Globe. Well I have to give them some credit. Even if they seemed oblivious to good user design principles enabling Apple and others to take a large slice of their pie, Microsoft, IBM and the other big business computing vendors seem determined…

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