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Thinging Machines: Can There Be? Are We? - http://delivr.com/10l02 - http://delivr.com/10l02
Thinging Machines: Can There Be? Are We?
- Amber Case
Thinking of buying a camera today. Nikon D80 or D90. Good store in Portland to get this? Or online store?
For online camera stores I've always been happy with B & H. - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/. Good luck.
- James
Thank you!!
- Amber Case
from email
I'll second B&H for buying online, and locally, Pro Photo Supply is where most of the photogs I know show (never actually been there myself). If you decide to go for a D80 over a D90, you might have good luck on Craigslist or buying from someone locally selling used (maybe post a want to buy).
- Josh Bancroft
Excellent. I'm heading over to Pro Photo Supply today. Their prices are good and I have a camera on hold over there. Thank you!
- Amber Case
from email
Love the D90. Basically the same sensor as the D300. Plus video.
- Kevin Pedraja
Thank you! Great to hear.
- Amber Case
from email
Ergo sum morpheus malissimus vampiris.
Vampires are pretty sweet.
- Amber Case
Lazy request: Adium has decided to start signing me in and out about every 5 minutes (tried 1.3.4 & 1.3.6) any ideas?
Perhaps try an older version of it from http://www.oldversion.com/
- Amber Case
My Girls <3
mridul, Shandiz, Anne Bouey and 42 other people liked this
Had to take new pics for the site yesterday, love these two :)
- Penny
Mini-pennies!
- Mo Kargas
haha Mo! Sophie, my youngest, is apparently EXACTLY as I was. My mum gets very nostalgic around her :D
- Penny
Love the outfits- did you make those? They remind me of stuff we used to wear.
- anna sauce
No, I don't make them Anna, but I sell them :) And yes, they are very retro! My mum used to make me outfits like that!
- Penny
The tabs-on-top reminds me of this cute big fish dress (later a top) that my mom made us. She sells her old patterns on eBay now.
- anna sauce
that fabric looks like stuff sold internationally, which is why I thought it was homemade :)
- anna sauce
This designer has the most beautiful fabrics, which is why I stock them. They are actually LA based, and the designer gets her inspiration from Paris. And yes, these dresses become tops as you grow, plus they are reversible (so are the little rompers) so you get two outfits in one :) Win!
- Penny
sweet girls...
- Soner Bayır
such a sweet little princesses!
- Nia
Where's your baby shop located?
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
beautiful :) And you're kids </flirt>
- Zee.
Thanks Nia <3 .. My shop is in Central Vic Bryce, soon to be online to the world! Awww, Zee :D
- Penny
The dress on the right is probably one of the best things I've seen in a long time.
- Amber Case
Amber - cute isn't it! RAP - thank you :)
- Penny
SO cute, these two. :) Can't wait 'til your store goes online!
- Ayşe E.
Thank you, I can't wait either, Ayşe! Not long now! And they are pretty cute :D
- Penny
RT @jtoeman: i think the SXSW team needs to re-think the panel picker system. popularity contests don't drive quality content... (AMEN!!!)
Christi, Gregg Morris, Mitchell Hislop and Jesse Stay liked this
neither does pleading for votes
- George Dearing
Agreed, but according to the site it only comprises of 30% of the decision making process for selection.
- Mark Krynsky
Yes - good good good good.
- Amber Case
@Scobleizer Activity Streams *work session* is open: noon at Stanford. Make sure you've read the spec if you come! http://activitystrea.ms
Nicholas James, John McCrea, Atul Arora and 2 other people liked this
That sounds excellent! Wish I were there.
- Amber Case
Please vote for me, @jensmccabe & @chiah for SXSW! Account creation is free & takes 2 secs: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas... http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas... #fb
Great - excited for this!
- Amber Case
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CW™ liked this
Rings should never be worn on the thumb. Never.
- Kittyburgers
This is not useful as it removes the screen. But a sweet idea!
- Amber Case
This is a great video, by the way. A nice twist. Called "The Job". http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Bryan Lee liked this
OMG that is too funny.
- Bryan Lee
Glad you liked it!
- Amber Case
Wow. Just spilled about 20oz of liquid all over me. Nonalcoholic and sober. I swear. Now I am cold. #WhoDOESthat
Ladybug Heather, John Wang and Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) liked this
I can understand a few drops spilled, but... all 20oz? That's talent. :)
- Ryan Christensen
Haha! So YOU were the reason there's coffee all over my shirt.
- Amber Case
You too?! Wow! Today is a spillage kinda day! #SynchronizedMesses #Sexy ;) Ryan: Shut. Up. hmph. ;)
- Mona Nomura
I feel like a werewolf today. How else did I get coffee all over my shirt? It wasn't here this morning.
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I know who you were: http://ff.im/7CbAq
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
That's hilarious!!
- Amber Case
We have Comdex, and Gnomedex...how is it no one has thought of NOMDex yet?
PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK liked this
nom nom nom nom
- mikepk
i would go.
- Amber Case
I could set it up and run it from New York...take out space at the Javitz Center, have tables lined up with the most delicious culinary treats known to man...
- Mike Nayyar
I hate coming up with domain names.
try ambercaserocks.com
- Lloyd Woods
You rock.
- Amber Case
Sigh. The hackers got into my blog, left some invisible text in places I didn't catch, and now have gotten me kicked out of Google. Grrr.
Colleen Kulikowski, Mitchell Tsai, Krishnamoorthy and 51 other people liked this
how the hell they do that?
- Mycaptain
what?
- michael sean wright
wow.
- Joe
Hardcore grudgery!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
huh
- directeur
I'm guessing by *invisible text* he means people loaded white-on-white keywords into his header and footer like the sort of NSFW content blocked by your office's firewall.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
So do you like your Cannon, Robert? What model is it?
- Joe
where? i see ur blog online.
- Jay Martinez
So much for having your own blog giving you control of your content?
- Jesse Stay
I got screwed cause the old blog.grazr.com got hacked (didn't know it) and it was redirected to my new blog. So now my pagerank is like -5 or something.
- mikepk
shocked that after the hell i went through on rackspace/mosso they wouldn't have known what to clear - i was out of google too - it's so fun - all of my sites got hit too over time so i lost a ton of google.
- Allen Stern
I hate to say it but as Allen and Jesse are hinting at this is a black mark on your hosting provider.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I still get yahoo search referrals for casinos and nsfw stuff. blah. #spammersshouldbekilled
- mikepk
why is this rackspaces fault?
- Mark
I've seen injected content on RSS feeds that didn't show up on the blog itself. :-/ Sorry to hear!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
there's a virus or something like that which places an iframe in your page. just change your ftp password, scan your machine for virusses, and find the code in the pages and then google will let you in again
- Hakan İyice
Maybe it's a black mark because Scoble is a Rackspace employee, but it's not Rackspace's fault something happened to a website. They run the server, not the website.
- Mark Trapp
daniel - just to be clear - they have said to me time and agian it's not their side, it's wordpress side.
- Allen Stern
Is that acceptable? I know that ever since I've moved from hosted Blogspot over to self-administered WordPress I've had some crazy spam issues. Maybe that's just a natural consequence of the blog growing and not a result of my hosting choice.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
They used some sort of admin hack. We changed a whole bunch of stuff and now the hack has stopped (we deleted the admin account and did a bunch of other stuff). I'm not sure how it happened, but we're getting smarter about setting up Wordpress, that's for sure!
- Robert Scoble
Allen: there are folks inside Rackspace who know how to clean this up. I'm now working with them.
- Robert Scoble
Use XENU to find all the links and kill them, makes life easier to find all the places the embedded code ended up. Worked for me when this happened to me last year.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
In a separate thread, Robert admitted his blog was running WordPress 2.7.x, which was vulnerable to an exploit detailed here: http://wordpress.org/develop... -- and then once in, hackers can inject spam only visible to robots. If you have a WordPress blog, please update to the latest version -- 2.8.4 -- to prevent hackers from doing the same thing to your blog that they did to Robert's.
- Stephen Mack
It's such a damn shame that you worked so hard to have an Internet presence and some bastard sits around in his basement and try to whack you off the net
- Houseofmax
Robert, if you need some WP help from experts, check out the wordpress.org forums and/or wptavern.com. That's where us WordPress nerds hang out. We can give security tips, maybe specific to your host. We also have several people who are skilled at post-hack analysis, to determine how they got in and prevent it from happening in the future.
- Otto
Stephen: I think that was ONE of the exploits they used. The exploits continued even after updating (they've stopped now, because we made it hard to find the admin account -- that's something I would do immediately too, change the name of your admin account).
- Robert Scoble
Otto: thanks. Some of those guys work at Rackspace and they are helping out now. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Wordpress rocks. :)
- Louis Gray
Oh yes it does Louis!
- Hutch Carpenter
Robert, that was probably how they got in originally, and probably left themselves backdoors that worked even after you updated to 2.8.4.
- Stephen Mack
Daniel: nothing about the hosting choice makes WordPress (or any other web-level application) more susceptible to spam. Your site is accessible via a fully-qualified domain name, which is how spammers are finding you (via Google or other means). That domain could be attached to any host, the spammers don't care or necessarily know who that host is. What a host is responsible for,...
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- Mark Trapp
Most of Rackspace's products are unmanaged at the application layer, but managed at the system and network layer.
- Mark Trapp
Yes, that is the usual case. A successful hack causes insertion of hidden admin accounts or other backdoors, to let them get in later. One of the steps we always recommend after getting hacked is to a) copy any new "content" you have made into text files somewhere, and then b) restore the site and database from a backup prior to the hack. This prevents anything they inserted from being...
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- Otto
I had to pay triple my yearly hosting fee just to cover the bandwidth lost to spam before I figured out how to blacklist spammers using a WP plugin.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Also, if the Rackspace guys find any possible security problems, have them email the info to security@wordpress.org . It'll get analyzed by experts that way.
- Otto
Who is responsible Host? WP? Is it possible to have an eye over errors logs and failed attempt !
- Honey
same exact thing happened to me a month ago. I finally got it sorted out. I'm happy to share what I learned if interested. I went to d msg you on Twitter but i'm one of the masses to be unfollowed
- Jim Goldstein
Jim: you can DM me here, which is even better!
- Robert Scoble
I figured :) Hence my presence here.
- Jim Goldstein
Robert, if I'm clear on this you are positive this isn't a Rackspace/host/server failure but a failure to secure the script (FREE AND COMMON) you used for your blog. Right? It's not like you had your SQL server hacked or something similarly systems related.
- Jason Nunnelley
Just highlights one of the major drawbacks of Cloud Computing. You don't really have control of your own destiny. Of course, that's not to say the same thing can't happen when you do.
- Ward Mundy
WTF?
- Tyson Key
Ward, can you tell me what this has to do with cloud computing?
- Jason Nunnelley
In my instance they added an official looking xmlrpc.php file. Adjusted the header.php file and hid files in my plugin directory. More here http://groups.google.com/group... It took a while to clean out my blog plugin directory to start from scratch and to look through various files for encrypted code...
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- Jim Goldstein
I ASS-U-MEd the blog was hosted at wordpress.com.
- Ward Mundy
I don't understand - what does getting 'kicked out of Google' really mean?
- Zach Landes
Zach: my blog was removed from the Google index until I clean it up.
- Robert Scoble
Ugh! Hackers stink!
- Karen Swim
My bad... Powered by Rackspace Cloud Hosting (so it has a little something to do with Cloud Computing) :-)
- Ward Mundy
I blame TCP/IP.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Ward, it's running Apache 2.2, so by that logic Apache is to blame. So does your website.
- Jason Nunnelley
no blame the fame, none hack the unknow (anonyme).
- abdellah
Same thing has happened to us, actually. Honestly more annoying than harmful in our case, anyway.
- Jason Preston
Rob and I are cleaning it up now...*sigh*
- Robert J Taylor
Yikes - that sucks. My site got hit with hidden / invisible spam links few months back - big PITA to fix and to get Google juice back gradually.
- Patrick Jordan
that happened to me last week... The Rackspace team helped me clean it up - While Google said many Rackspace/Mosso sites were affected I was told (and agree with) - they host thousands and thousands of sites and it's WordPress - not them.
- andy brudtkuhl
That would piss me off to no end. Wow. Sorry Robert :(
- Andru Edwards
This was actually "hidden" in plain site by the exploit that affected WP 2.7.x All better now. Robert, tell Google to turn the juice back on!
- Rob La Gesse
That seems strange to me Robert...google searches have lots of NSFW stuff, so why would you be removed from the index altogether?
- Zach Landes
Zach: if I were a betting man, it's because scobleizer.com has a very high PR, and having that stuff there could adversely affect a whole lot more of the index than just his site.
- Mark Trapp
Wow, that is insane. Glad to hear you got it back up in a timely manner, thanks to your team.
- Martha
Curiously, the exact same thing happened to my blog (Twittercism.com), pretty much around the same time it happened to Robert, on both occasions. And like him, I was hacked the second time after the upgrade to 2.8.4. And it was invisible text in the footer. It was fairly easy to remove, but still, an irritant. (Incidentally, a WP Plugin called exploit scanner was very useful. http://ocaoimh.ie/exploit...)
- Shéa Bennett
Sounds like the Backwards Hack... How to Fix: http://www.gulker.com/fixing-... That was likely a botnet script, not an actual hacker, btw...
- Chris Gulker
Sigh. I run a few dozen WP sites, and I have yet to have any of them hacked into. I'm feeling left out here. :(
- Otto
oh oh so the last time you were hacked you still have the after effects of it, try the antivirus plugin for wp, it checks the themes for bad and malicious links
- Keith Dsouza
Wow! Scoble's Wordpress blog got hacked (click through for the details) & the hacker's secret changes got him thrown out of the Google Index for a while. Make sure you: 1) Always back up your Wordpress blog. 2) Update to 2.8.x, as 2.7 had the vulnerabilities that were exploited in Scoble's case. 3) Check your install for exploits (there are plugins for this), as well as your Google indexing once a week or so.
- Alex Schleber
Truly feeling bummed for you Robert! I've had a problem for several weeks of spammers going after my email. Gotta say.. people need to know that all sites are subject to hackers.
- Arleen Anderson
yikes!
- mutenewt
heh - I wonder if that's why Twitter bulk unfollow purchases have been down this week. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Wow, that really sucks. It's hard to believe so little can screw up so much.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Ouch! Google should know your blog!
- Amber Case
Hacked again? That sucks. I saw that you had cleaned it up, so I went to check on things. Someone on my team already saw the bad stuff was gone, so they revoked the removal early this afternoon. Looks like you're already back in the index.
- Matt Cutts
You've been hacked twice in a month haven't you.
- Jimminy
i just found more bad files on my mosso account - im seriously done :( matt - can you check insidetransit.com? thanks
- Allen Stern
Yikes, that sucks. Link injection is the scourge.
- Elliott Ng
Matt: thanks, Google is fast lately. I remember the days when we waited weeks for search engines to reindex! Hopefully we got it all fixed now. We're definitely learning a lot about Wordpress best practices.
- Robert Scoble
how do these hackers get to find a way IN? how?
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Install a good web application firewall such as dotDefender, ModSecurity, eeye, imperva it will help you to stop those attacks.
- Daniel
That blows - hope you tech guys figure out how to eliminate crap like this : ) I'm sure that won't stop you for long...
- Mark Harai
My blogs been hacked since I first had it and I don't even care enough to update it, that alone should show you how much I care about the internet and blogging.
- Jeunelle Foster
Be nice if twitter would figure out a financial model that would let them help folks who have been spammed or otherwise compromised
- Sean O'Reilly
This same thing happened to me and ALL of my blogs got removed from Google and I'm now working as a cashier. Several years of solid work completely gone. I don't know why Google and WordPress don't do something about this. This was one of the worst things to happen to me in my entire life... :(
- Uniquely Cool
By the way, I've only found one sure fire way to keep from getting hacked... and that is to convert your WordPress blog into a static HTML site. Sucks losing some of the interactive features, though. :(
- Uniquely Cool
Recently had a drop in my PR, but it must be something I did or said. There must be a better way to enhanced your blog security than going non-interactive, like having your own domain
- Houseofmax
This is really depressing. My situation is way worse... I could literally lose my house because of a wordpress exploit. :(
- Uniquely Cool
yikes, just found this
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Now I'm really curious. How many #browsertabs do you have open? Leave number in comments: http://cherylsmith.posterous.com/1-brows... (Pls RT)
250. 150 in Safari and 100 in Firefox (have to watch Firefox because it taxes CPU more than Safari. Safari is my breakaway parachute).
- Amber Case
@att Are you serious?
:-)) cant u c @att tweets ?
- Johni Fisher
hehe! absolutely.
- Amber Case
Yeah, 4chan hacked a Christian dating site that stored plaintext passwords, then fished around for other sites where the users used the same passwords.
- Andrew C
Oh - either which way, it's FUNNY.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Poor lady having her business spoiled by everyone.
- John Wang
Welcome to the age of ubiquitous connectivity.
- Amber Case
Gnomedex 09 Cyborg Anthropology Caseorganic - http://www.slideshare.net/caseorg...
This is Cyborg Anthropologist Amber Case's look into our strange culture of technosocial objects and processes. It was given at Gnomedex 9.0 in Seattle Washington in front of an audience of top tech bloggers.
- Amber Case
Cyborg anthropology time at #Gnomedex! Yay! It's the future!
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- Amber Case
Was talking to someone today about how Seesmic wasn't the best product out there, but had the best known personality behind it. Just now, I read a comment on TC about how Friendfeed is better, but no one cares. Sure, there are some 'celebrities' on here, but, it's not getting the mainstream wings like Twitter et al. Odd dynamics.
Gordon Saunders, Tanath, Michael R. Bernstein and 2 other people liked this
As an aside I showed a killer product that's been around for a while that's like all of the apps rolled up into one (twitter, FF, seesmic, jaiku, etc), and the only response I got was 'why doesn't anyone know about this?' Heh. Dunno, it's my observation, but not my problem.
- Eric Rice
you coming up for gnomedex?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
no, i got my ass kicked last time. "I got a free ticket!" and 2500 bucks later from room and board, it was kinda a fail. But I might have news about a possible residency in a certain part of the northwest, shhhh.
- Eric Rice
gnomedex wasn't a fail, btw, the cyborg preso and also meeting amber case was well worth it, heh. Maybe this year people can get off the Twitter crack. It makes us look boring.
- Eric Rice
It's all about mass and simplicity. FF is like a boutique for discerning shoppers and Twitter is like Sears with a wider market appeal. Very few people are narcissistic enough to spend their days staring into a camera. And very few people publish in more than one place.
- Rob Safuto
from iPod
So, what is this all-in-one product?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Thanks for the shout-out. The podcast you gave me was one of the best moments. The waveforms of your voice were perfect.
- Amber Case
Cheapshitcondos.com - Part 2 - http://cheapshitcondos.com/wordpre...
The Cheapest Crappiest Condos blighting the Seattle area are now available in crappy blog format - searing the eyes with urban yuck was never so fun! Contains dozens of images and reviews!
- Amber Case
IS GOOGLE KILLING GENERAL KNOWLEDGE? - http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content... Thanks @PersonDetectors reading article now.
hi-grace, TheHenry, Kol Tregaskes and 5 other people liked this
You read the entire article in one minute, Holden?
- Mona Nomura
Ok - so why not expand on your thoughts if it's an old topic?
- Mona Nomura
Not really ... but the Internet in general is decreasing intelligence in my opinion
- Bhowmik Shah
Google is the McDonald's of Information - Social Networks are the Home Cooked Meal.
- Amber Case
Well, Wolframalpha isnt sure either.... http://www17.wolframalpha.com/input...
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
I think the statement that " ..The average student, though better-informed than the earl’s daughter appears to be, seems not to value general knowledge..." is the key. I am not sure if this is a troubling trend but it does bother me.
- Bhowmik Shah
LOL Wolfman doesn't know what to do with ascending and descending LOL Amber, is there a reason you chose social networks over libraries? Am I missing something?
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Actually - social networks DOES make more sense. It aligns with what Robert always says: "It's who you follow." The problem is, how do you tap into that conversation economy if you're not a seasoned social networker? So many questions!
- Mona Nomura
Ohhh -- libraries are delicious, sit down, slow food restaurants with excellent tasting food.
- Amber Case
LOVE those analogies.
- Mona Nomura
Holden, no there is a difference. Information is accessible to more people more easily that does not necessarily equate to the general populace being more intelligent. With all due respect i don't mean to say that people are getting to be dumber but the value for information is gradually dropping because what we all have started to believe is defined by one statement ... "Google it .."...
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- Bhowmik Shah
Kurt: Actually yes ... :) i agree
- Bhowmik Shah
And for those who were looking for knowledge before ... the Internet is godsend ... as long as you know how much credibility you can place on something and use your common sense ... the Internet has opened up a whole new vista of possibilities.
- Bhowmik Shah
My next lifetime goal is to be a Cyborg Anthropologist like @caseorganic She's also a #Gnomedex speaker. Amber, I am so excited to meet you!
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Kevin Bondelli, Matthew Horton and 7 other people liked this
I follow her as well. Recommended.
- Christopher A Carr
Just her title alone intrigues me so. For those of you who can't join, we'll DEFINITELY be streaming her presentation! :)
- Mona Nomura
wow...that's interesting..I'm following her now
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Great. now I'm obsessing. I want to be a Cyborg Anthropologist, too. Seriously.
- Mona Nomura
Mona stop making me Jealous! I couldn't make it this year!
- TheHenry
You guys can join us virtually - we'll be streaming, plus you KNOW it will show up on Chris' Youtube :)
- Mona Nomura
I know. It is just more fun being there. lol :)
- TheHenry
Seriously, I am SO excited to meet Amber. How cool is a Cyborg Anthropologist? So much radder than say - an evangelist (EVIL AGENTS) haha. Maybe next year Henry? :)
- Mona Nomura
Hopefully next year Mona! We'll See. :)
- TheHenry
Yay! Cyborg. Anthropologist. AWESOME.
- Mona Nomura
Woah - I just read this. Thank you so much for your kindness. I really am excited to meet all of you in the future!
- Amber Case
Are you Amber or an AI? ...ok, I just realized how LAME that sounded. Anyway, nice to meet you Amber, you are my new hero :)
- Mona Nomura
My handle used to be aicase - but then I realized that what I say comes from the organic side of me - that things that result from AI (like Amazon.com recommendations), however awesome, must still be curated. Thus, the organic. There's a @casebot for the AI side of me. :)
- Amber Case
Yeah? I'm thinking Cyborg Fireman myself
- Mo Kargas
I wonder how technology will impact the generations after us, especially since my age group (late 20s-30s) are extremely fortunate to be raised in an era where we went from analog to digital. I never thought about curated results from our AI personas, but now that you mention it, we are ALL part AI. Wow. Total food for thought.
- Mona Nomura
Hazelnut Tech Talk | Portland Internet Marketing and Events & Visualizing the Internet Strategy Forum Summit 2009 - http://oakhazelnut.makerlab.com/2009...
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A visual report of Jeremiah Owyang and other speakers at the Internet Strategy Forum Summit 2009 at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Instead of digging through pages of Twitter data with the search term #ISF09, the method here allows the audience as well as speakers to see how their speech ranked in comparison others at the conference. This way, one can see exactly the topics that hit the audience the hardest.
- Amber Case
Visualizing the Internet Strategy Forum Summit 2009 - http://oakhazelnut.makerlab.com/2009...
Instead of digging through pages of Twitter data with the search term #ISF09, the method here allows the audience as well as speakers to see how their speech ranked in comparison others at the conference. This way, one can see exactly the topics that hit the audience the hardest.
- Amber Case
Technology Review: What Your Phone Knows About You - http://www.technologyreview.com/communi...
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What Your Phone Knows About You -MIT's Sandy Pentland finds surprising implications in patterns of cell-phone use. December 20, 2007 A couple of years ago, Sandy Pentland, professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, handed out about 100 Nokia cell phones to MIT students and faculty. The phones were equipped with software that helped Pentland's team log interactions between the people carrying them. Based on phone calls and the devices' physical proximity to other people's phones (as measured by Bluetooth), Pentland and researcher Nathan Eagle developed social-network models that were more accurate and more nuanced than those constructed from the subjects' self-reports. A paper on the study is currently under review at the journal Nature.
- Amber Case
identity campaigning - http://www.identitycampaigning.org
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Identity Campaigning The profound social and environmental challenges that we confront arise importantly from dominant identities (that is, who we see ourselves as being and the values we collectively express). This site provides a forum for exploring ways in which social values and identity can be engaged. It has been developed as part of WWF-UK's Strategies for Change Project.
- Amber Case
Supermodernity - Replaying the Senses - http://caseorganic.posterous.com/replayi...
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At Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburg, a huggable pillow has been developed that uses "sensing and wirelss phone technology to provide a physical touch" (article source) been developed. It is a device that, once hugged, stores that hug for future playback.
- Amber Case
Hazelnut Tech Talk | Portland Internet Marketing, Events, Advertising & Who Killed Social Media? Reputation, Community Management, and the Future of Branding - http://oakhazelnut.makerlab.com/2009...
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What is social media? 4 panelists and a moderator discuss what's really going on in the transition from traditional to digital media, including what's going to happen to branding. Full transcript of the 88 minute panel with link to the video.
- Amber Case
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