From the monthly archives:

February 2008

links for 2008-02-28

February 28, 2008

Indian Blog Directory New Indian Blog Directory set up by Amrit Hallan of Writing Cave (tags: India blogdirectory blogs indianblogs) Wii.com – Iwata Asks: Wii Fit I want!!! Can do workouts, ski, yoga …. (tags: wii wiibalanceboard) InnovationTools – Business creativity and brainstorming articles 8 suggestions for better brainstorming and idea generation in groups (tags: [...]

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links for 2008-02-10

February 10, 2008

YouTube – 12 Days of Christmas this is absolutely hilarious!!!!!!!! (tags: india humour indianculture christmas desi)

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Away

February 5, 2008

Am off to London today .. will be there 6th – 12th, en route to New York where I’m participating in the Open Society Institute Information Programme Sub-Board meeting (I’m one of the new sub-board members).  It’s going to be so cold – packing’s been a nightmare – had to go buy a larger bag!!!! [...]

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Mosoci – The Future of Research?

February 5, 2008

Hmmm. Was just chatting with Rajesh of Blogworks about working together on a potential social media project. We were trying to work out areas of competence between his company and ours. He made this observation and used a fine phrase to describe Mosoci – he said it is the Future of Research. I think I [...]

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Twitter research .. in action!

February 5, 2008

Rob Paterson alerts me to Jeremiah Owyang’s social media experiment in a comment at my post a few days ago on Twitter for Ethnography: From Rob’s post at the Fast Forward blog: This is how Jeremiah framed it: I’ve created MicroMedia events before, this time, I want to frame it as an overlay to the [...]

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links for 2008-02-02

February 2, 2008

Why Use Twitter When You Can Make Your Own Microblogging Network With WordPress Prologue? | Gauravonomics Blog WordPress Prologue – Gaurav shares his experience in setting up his own private Microblog. A Twitter alternative? Interesting set of RSS feeds from Twitter on the right panel (tags: gauravmishra wordpress wordpressprologue twitter socialmedia) ‘if’ .. Dancing Freely [...]

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Learning to be … through Learning Journeys

February 1, 2008

Mahatma Gandhi once said: “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” My recent experience with the Learning Journey we organised for Clients actually reinforced to me that given the right balance of content with experiential immersions and a focus on ‘how’ learning would take place, learning-to-be can begin even with [...]

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We participate therefore we are …

February 1, 2008

vs Great piece on Social Learning titled Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. The supercool text illustrations are by Susan E. Haviland. Some snippets I really enjoyed: What do we mean by “social learning”? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept [...]

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Twitter for Ethnography

February 1, 2008

There’s a discussion on at the anthrodesign group around how best to approach a diary project. An excerpt from the initial query: “We’ll be fielding a diary study trying to understand people’s initial experiences with a new mobile phone, particularly understanding the set up experience and the first few days of use. We are interested [...]

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