Actually this is better than Thursday morning TV, which, in my hometown at least, was pretty weak. This stuff is amazing.
First some of the best nonprofit advertising I’ve ever seen.
Second a great bike water filter pump.
Lastly a favorite app redesigned.
(more type video if you’re into it)
And the bike:
The wacky bike was designed by [...]
Intel produced this fantastic map yesterday at the 2008 Research@Intel Day. Red countries have higher rates of technology adoption. This is really valuable data for thinking about how to influence the adoption of technology, and for thinking about the ICT4D political spectrum in more than two shades of grey (or red and orange I guess). [...]
Just a quick open invitation, if you are in San Francisco this weekend:
UPDATE: Changed the time to 4pm.
I’m meeting with designer-researchers Niti Bahn and Dave Tait on Saturday, April 19th, at 6pm 4pm at Atlas Cafe in San Francisco (in the Mission). Come have a beer with us! We’re talking generally about designing [...]
So I went to this Street Hacks talk 2 nights ago is here: http://www.janchipchase.com/ (it was awesome, you missed it. Clam Pizza.) And then it turns out Chipchase just got all famous this week, seriously: First a rad video in the Economist:
And then in the New York Times.
Here’s my Reader’s Digest version, [...]
Now this is what I am talking about: A mobile phone based API for doing things like managing quantitative research projects. Supports a bazillion types of phones. Developed by a South African company. You own your own data. Sounds like a brilliant new project and I look forward to hearing more about it.
The [...]
I’m just getting started on a new project nicknamed Kestrel.
The basic idea a simple and user-centered web app that helps facilitate ordering, billing and member management for CSA’s. Things are JUST getting started and I am soliciting help in doing some feasibility research as well as a basic evaluation of existing CSA management applications. [...]
Recently there has been a lot of discussion among the nonprofit technology geeks about the use (and usefulness) of the tag “nptech”.
When the nptech tag started one of the ideas was to gather enough data to look and see what words people were using to describe, say, open source (open source, floss, foss, open [...]
37 Signals is a supersmart little company known for creating easy-to-use web-based project management tools (namely the Basecamp suite), and they have just announced the latest in their product family: Campfire.
According to their website, “Campfire brings simple group chat to the business setting. Instant messaging is great for quick 1-on-1 chats, but it’s [...]
I am currently researching a field of design known as “Participatory Design” that has a fascinating history (dealing with Scandinavian labor unions) and a very promising future. In short, PD is about incorporating the user in the design process from day one. The resulting ideas and workflows are, in my mind, incredibly powerful tools [...]
Here’s a link to a nice comparison of Google Scholar and Scrius. It points out that Google Scholar has become neglected and is no longer updated regularly. This is a super-unfortunate development; Google is the web’s best hope for easy, inexpensive archiving of scholarly research. (In other news, however, Amazon is now offering scholarly articles [...]
Perhaps not what you’ve been waiting for all year — an extensive resource for researching various qualitative data analysis programs — but if you’re in a research environment, this is actually extremely helpful.
This page is from a university in the U.K., and would be useful if you’re about to sink a few hundred dollars [...]
Do you work with interviews or documents in which you have to make meaningful correlations between themes?
Perhaps you have a lot of data from interviews and you want to know what your respondents associate with a problem.
Atlas.Ti isn’t new, but you may have missed the boat. It provides a visual way of organizing [...]