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Vincent - Tim Burton animated short

Sean Parker a serial entrepreneur talk has something really interesting “Why companies like Facebook, Twitter, Ebay and Apple but not Google with dete

Owen Van Natta, CEO of MySpace on socialization of content

Facebook COO, Sherly Sandberg

Twitter’s co-founder and CEO Evan Williams

Ending world poverty - Sell the Vatican!

Fabulous video about an idiotic news story

A cool blog for all you design-y types

http://imaginarium42.blogspot.com/

From HighWire's very own, Leon Cruickshank.

Rypple for interdisciplinarity

http://rypple.com/blog/2009/09/09/paging-dr-rypple/

Insane and amazing stats and figures

Ted Kennedy: A reminder of what it means to be a Liberal

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy speaks to the Alaska Democratic Party Convention in Sitka on April 7, 1968, shortly after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..

P1xel and the Chronic Network

Wow! This takes me back to my UChicago days! Are these guys still playing???!!!

Ira Glass - hope for the creative soul!!!

Also motivation during this first bash of research.

Interesting use of Twitter

Combatting anonymity with social media

Blogging in Iran

IRAN: A Nation Of Bloggers from ayrakus on Vimeo.

Love it! - cheesy gold

Totally strange band - I dig it

Katzenjammer: A bunch of really strange (almost Bjork-ish?) ladies playing some pretty fabulous music.

Soft-Serving information

How and why Wikipedia?

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This is part of a pilot study of social networking, an early stage of investigation into the role of storytelling in generating social capital in online communities.

Online drum circles!

An interesting crossroads between ritual and virtual collaboration.

"The project explores the rupture of communication in the technology-mediated world and addresses the issue of global harmony." Fabulous!

Facebook is huge

Working analogy:

PC : Mac Enthusiasts :: Facebook : Twitter Enthusiasts

Homeless connecting through social networking technology

http://www.switched.com/2009/06/04/homeless-folks-getting-reconnected-through-facebook-twitter/

Facebook: You're doing it wrong

Facebook in real life

New favorite quote

"In the year 3000, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook will merge into one super time wasting website called YouTwitFace.” – Conan O’Brien

Note the irony: I heard about this because I clicked on Twitter's top trending topic today, Conan O'Brien.

Another Twitter find

Interview with Genevieve Bell at Intel on ethnography.

A design ethnography video (found on Twitter)

Simon Johnson with Flow Interactive

UX Brighton: Simon Johnson - Bridging the Ethnography/Design Gap (May 2009) from UX Brighton on Vimeo.

In the name of science, I Twitter

But I maintain the right to be thoroughly against it on principle in all non-research arenas.

More music that makes me happy

Melinda Doolittle: gotta love her. She lights up when she sings, it's inspiring. I dunno. Can't really explain it. But she's fabulous.

Sita Sings The Blues

Yay! - new Neko Case!

Extreme Sheep LED Art!

More cool artwork

Check out this blog: http://www.dirtycarart.com/gallery/index.htm!

Designing for the world we yearn for

I found an inspiring essay by Adaptive Path experience designer Paula Wellings. Worth a read, especially if you tend to lean towards idealism.

As part of our experience design practice, what might happen when we take time to consider both the specificity of existing environments and to imagine, invent, and describe future real worlds that people yearn to inhabit?

Inventing a world creates a possibility space aligned with the kinds of environments people want to inhabit, as opposed to the worlds they currently live in. The world description brings value to designers and clients as a method and as a metric for considering if our isolated designs for interfaces, products, services, and devices have a coherent, integrated part to play in an optimal environment for desired experiences.

Using art to address global environmental concerns:

http://www.theharrisonstudio.net/peninsula_europe_i_i.html

Ridiculous and amazing: micro-art