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My mind = blown.
If you’re into this kind of stuff, please go check out the rest.
On that note, Information Aesthetics looks like a mighty fine data viz blog. Gonna give it a home in my Google Reader Purgatory folder and see how it fares.
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Adam Greenfield, author of the seminal book Everyware: The Dawning of Ubiquitous Computing has accepted a position at Nokia as “Head of Design Direction, with a remit for the service and user interface domain.”
As someone who’s enjoyed Adam’s work for a long time, I’m genuinely anxious to see what he can do to push things forward working at a company with such incredible device penetration globally. It’s hard for me to think of a better place to be if you want to have far-reaching impact in that space.
On a side note, if you have even the slightest interest in ubiquitous computing and the potential benefits and impacts of, both technological and philosophical, of technology in the future, I highly recommend you grab his book .
Read more from Adam on the new position: Architecture in Helsinki « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
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Karen, Dennis and I went back to ITP last night to celebrate Clay’s book release for Here Comes Everybody.
Clay was so instrumental to our experience at ITP and served as a inspiration for a lot of the ideas we ultimately explored with dodgeball. I feel very fortunate to have been able to cross paths with him academically, professionally and personally.
Back to the book. Go check it out. I promise you’ll learn something. But if you don’t want to take my word for it, take it from Stephen Johnson , someone who’s written a few great ones himself:
“Clay Shirky may be the finest thinker we have on the Internet revolution, but Here Comes Everybody is more than just a technology book; it’s an absorbing guide to the future of society itself. Anyone interested in the vitality and influence of groups of human beings -from knitting circles, to political movements, to multinational corporations-needs to read this book.”
-Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You and Emergence
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