Notes on papers, books and blogs about Cognitive Ergonomics, HCI, philosophy of design and everything interesting
The age of the Google Man is upon us! Great work by Michael Wesch (of The Machine is Us/ing Us fame), shows how search (and search literacy) has altered the landscape and shattered hierarchies.
http://www.youtube.com/?v=-4CV05HyAbMInformation R/evolutionTags: search, information, netculture, cyberpunk, anthropology, ethnography
He may be arrogant, obnoxious and his last book “The God Delusion” was mediocre… Still, he is a brilliant thinker which shows in his response to Edge’s excellent “What’s Your Formula?”:
Richard Dawkins
Tags: evolution, formula, algorithm, theory, biology, epistemology
Coding Horror complains about the terrors of bloat.
I think that there is a parallel here with cars (albeit in the ultrafast timescales of IT). Cars keep getting bigger and bigger: I think know the current VW Polo is larger than the 1st generation Golf we used to own. So with software: if the free app […]
For those who want to get things done fast, or just want to study some of the principles, Smashing Magazine has published 30 Usability Issues to be Aware Of. It is a mix of rules, principles and phenomena related to usability. For serious studying, I suggest to delve into the depths of Interaction-Design.org. Also, for the attendants […]
Wired has a nice article about the locus of memory moving from “wetware” to hardware. The fact that it simply is more convenient to digitally store, or altogether bypass low-level pieces of information (like telephone numbers).
Sure, I’m a veritable genius when I’m on the grid, but am I mentally crippled when I’m not? Does an […]
I’ve uploaded the short (following Guy Kawasaki’s rule) presentation I gave in OpenCoffee IV. It was an interesting event and the presentations showed that something IS moving. Onic’s especially was inspiring even for me, a conservative non-entrepreneurial kind of person.
Thanks to the OpenCoffee Athens organizers for the great event!
Tags: opencoffee, greek, athens, conference, […]
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