Reading some background material for a point of view I’m writing on mobile social software for a workshop on the topic lead me to Hidenori Tomita’s essay “Keitai and the Intimate Stranger.” I turned to it because I was trying to put some intellectual meat on the topic of the inextricable collusion between devices an…

Reading a bit today from Goffman’s “Behavior in Public Places”. It reads a bit like a sociologist’s take on propriety and protocol which it is. That means Goffman is investigating social behaviors in order to develop a framework for understanding such behaviors and, thereby, learn more about how and why people condu…

It’s the holiday season, which, since I was about 15, meant it was time to take some time to catch up on the projects I’ve been meaning to do. Terribly alpha-geeky. I’ve been meaning to connect a GPS to Processing (http://www.processing.org) to allow Processing to get some rudimentary context awareness — where it…

Nicolas pointed me to some work that Jamie Lawrence and his colleagues have been doing on the topic of what they refer to as “co-location”. It’s a neologism tied to [w:Stanley Milgram]’s [w:Familiar Stranger], someone who is observed repeatedly over the course of time, but with whom there is no interaction.

In this whimsical blog post, the author shares their excitement over new tech endeavors, including an ADXL203 evaluation kit and a Motorola i415 mobile device. With plans to create a pedometer that blogs, affectionately named flavonoid, the author envisions a future where capturing life’s moments becomes effortless. As they await their new desk for a more comfortable working environment, there's an underlying theme of merging technology with everyday life, exploring how devices can enhance our experiences in a fast-paced world.

Drove up to San Francisco for the weekend, kind of, to see family and stop in at the Stupid Fun Club‘s Christmas party.

I started piling up references, links, papers and so forth — my harvest of material on the topic of mobile social software — in a bid to steel myself for the preparation of a short point-of-view document on the topic and to help pour some concrete into the frame I’ve built around this blogjects topic so as to ad…

Chris Heathcote just dispatched this tasty nugget — the Aibo’s with the new brain? They blog their day. Here’s Pedro chit-chatting and moblogging about what he’s up to. Mostly what’s captured are the things he’s looking up at along with some lilting, aphoristic musings.

As I prepare for the Blogjects workshop at Lift, I'm diving into the concept of a Blogject prototype that captures the essence of our movements in the world. Together with Will, we envision a tool that records our perambulations and connects them with other locative phenomena, allowing our experiences to unfold in a casual, organic way. Rather than stopping to document every detail, the Blogject will replay our journeys, revealing insights from the unseen corners of our digital and physical landscapes. This exploration of presence and dissemination opens up exciting possibilities for how we share and interact with our surroundings.