From the monthly archives:

October 2007

links for 2007-10-22

October 22, 2007

Logic+Emotion: Help Us Stay in Beta This is where you come in. Tomorrow, (Monday) at 1:00 CST, we will turn on the Webcam as we discuss the future of the Always in Beta site. We’ve already been tossing a few iterative ideas around (above), but have not had a true ideation session yet. So (tags: [...]

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links for 2007-10-21

October 21, 2007

IndianExpress.com :: VOICE OF SANITY A journalist describes my blog (tags: blogs conversationswithdina media) MIT Press Journals – Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization Innovations Case Study on Second Life – full pdf download available (tags: MIT secondlife) Why Tech Blogging is Broken (Geek News Central) You have an “A” list site like TechCrunch that rarely writes [...]

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Featured in The Sunday Express

October 20, 2007

My blog is featured in the Sunday edition of the Indian Express today in a column called Voice of Sanity . Thanks Stuart, for making it so readable – I’ve been getting lots of good feedback on the layout! A good description of Gaurav Sabnis’s blog is there too. A lowdown on the top ranking [...]

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links for 2007-10-20

October 20, 2007

links for today Addons | Flock Looking at Flock add-ons. (tags: Flockaddons Flockextensions flock1.0)

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Flock 1.0 – More Intuitive, More Social

October 20, 2007

I first saw a demo of Flock at Pop!Tech in 2005 – I remember feeling it was cool because it brought together so many tools into one space. And I’m re-visiting Flock today, withe the launch of Flock 1.0 beta. What I like: I’m liking it – it is like integrating my desktop-browsing-bookmarking-tagging-publishing-social networking all [...]

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links for 2007-10-19

October 19, 2007

Portals and KM: Health Care Social Networking There seems to be a rise in niche social media sites to no surprise. It also seems logical that healthcare would be a ripe field for this. Here are a few of the current ones. Good to call up during learning journey in Jan with health-care pros (tags: [...]

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Move to stifle freedom on the internet by the Indian Govt

October 19, 2007

In the Times of India on the 17th: There is a clear and present danger to internet in India. If the recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee were to go through, you might as well pull the shutters down on the net in the country, because the committee seeks to raise the liability of internet [...]

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links for 2007-10-18

October 18, 2007

TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video) A really cool demo of photosynth. It’s quite awesome – uses the visual collective memory of folks to model a 3D image by creating hyperlinks between images! You can zoom in or out and actually feel you’re moving thru a scene. Copyright issues? [...]

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Social Media Strategies – lets remember Maslow!

October 18, 2007
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Got this link from Tara Hunt‘s links – a good primer on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Motivational Model originally developed in the 40′s and 50′s with adaptations from the 1970′s (cognitive and aesthetic needs added) and 1990′s (transcendence needs added). The basic premise of the model is: Each of us is motivated by needs. Our [...]

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A Vision of Students (in the US) Today – Digital Ethnography

October 18, 2007

A new video from Mike Wesch, who had earlier made the fab video, The Machine is Us/ing Us. Mike Wesch’s videos explore mediated culture, seeking to merge the ideas of Media Ecology and Cultural Anthropology. In a blog post describing this video, Prof Wesch says: It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students [...]

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links for 2007-10-17

October 17, 2007

Anthropology Matters Journal 2007, vol. 9 (2). Varma: ‘India wiring out’ “The criteria laid out for evaluation were accent, intonation, comfort, and work ethic, yet what gained them an ‘A grade’ was not how well they spoke English, but rather how well they could collectively ‘perform’ American-ness and disguise Indian-ness” (tags: ethnography india callcentre) Telco [...]

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From the mouth of babes … ask America to send it home …

October 17, 2007

Am laughing so much!  I was just speaking with my little niece and wishing her a happy birthday.  I asked her what she would like as a gift – and she asked for a lot of lollipops and candy and gum  – stuff I had bought her when I was in the US in August.  [...]

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Qualitative research – looking for the inconsistencies

October 17, 2007

It’s been a while since I visited Reshma Anand’s blog on qualitative research …. and realised I was missing out on so many good conversations! In one of her posts, she asks: “Are qualitative researchers – an inclusive lot – when it comes to the treatment of ‘Outliers’ or Do we banish the stray thought [...]

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Researching Movies

October 17, 2007

I recently got a brief from a Client who is a large movie-production house, to research their latest offering —- a full-length movie. The objective of research is not just to assess how it might fare and get viewer responses in order to identify motivational hooks, but also to test the marketing strategy, positioning, and [...]

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