Category Archives: HCI

Remember that Daedalus was an Architect

By escrubb | Published: 24.10.2010
This is a reflection on Leander and McKim’s “Tracing the Everyday ‘Sitings’ of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces”. You can find the article here. I liked the article, although their description of methodologies was, as they put it, “imaginative”, or as I put it, “vague, but [...]
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Relational or Causal Hypothesis? – Matei and Rokeach

By escrubb | Published: 07.10.2010
In Matei and Ball-Rokeach’s “Belonging in Geographical, Ethnic, and Internet Spaces” (2002), which I liked, I am most struck at the end by my confusion over tension between the explicit and implicit nature of their hypothesis. Is it relational or causal? At the beginning, they state a relationship. At the end, they (implicitly, but clearly) [...]
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h.o.p.e. conference #hacking #future #freedom

By escrubb | Published: 08.04.2010
Hackers on Planet Earth is happening in NYC in July. This is through 2600, the hacker quarterly published by Emmanuel Goldstein since the (early 90s?). If I am in town, I definitely want to go. Future talk, freedom talk, computer talk. main theme of the conference is ‘visions of the future from the past’. sentences [...]
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tools-hnb,xpdf, and ratpoison

By escrubb | Published: 27.02.2010
So I’m going to try to be a little more disciplined in posting about ways in which I use the computer. In this post, I very briefly describe the combined use of xpdf, hnb, and ratpoison. For a long time, I’ve been looking for a good method of reading, notetaking, brainstorming, and organizing. In addition [...]
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