Mar

26

DIY Comparison; what I did on my spring break

March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I’m undertaking a few electronics projects this week.  One is replacing my laptop hard drive with one of a larger capacity and the other is building a theremin kit for a friend.  I’m using how-to instructions for both projects and have found the hard drive instructions to be extremely useful and encouraging and the theremin […]

Mar

11

Easy on that trigger dad: a study of long term family photo retrieval

March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

We examine the effects of new technologies for digital photography on people’s longer term storage and access to collections of personal photos. We report an empirical study of parents’ ability to retrieve photos related to salient family events from more than a year ago. Performance was relatively poor with people failing to find almost 40% of pictures. We analyze participants’ organizational and access strategies to identify reasons for this poor performance. Possible reasons for retrieval failure include: storing too many pictures, rudimentary organization, use of multiple storage systems, failure to maintain collections and participants’ false beliefs about their ability to access photos. We conclude by exploring the technical and theoretical implications of these findings.

Mar

7

The Downside of Crowdsourcing

March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Re the LC Flickr’d Lincoln portrait linked from a Delicious post — shows the reasons I’m skeptical of crowdsourcing.  Lots of pointless comments.  We don’t care what random Flickr users think of Lincoln, his politics, his looks.  LC is posting images hoping to get useful info, but they’ll have to sort out what’s useful (if […]

Mar

5

XDRTB.org | Spread the story. Stop the Disease.

March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Powerful video of still images, text, and music from photographer James Natchwey.

Mar

3

Scott McCloud on comics | Video on TED.com

March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Mar

1

A Lincoln Conversation on Flickr

March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Debates in the notes and the comments!