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19:33
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Cyber Anthropology
It’s a beautiful day in Austin Texas. I have always said that if I were to ever live anywhere else in Texas it would be in Austin. I simply love this city. Now, I’ll admit that I might be spoiled ...
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18:23
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Cyber Anthropology
First stop was a panel on IA sketching, but of course it was at capacity. I really do need to start getting to panels earlier. [Must make opening remarks by Danah Boyd at 2 today!!]
Since I was already on ...
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0:14
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Cyber Anthropology
So Friday is almost over here at SXSW (well day time programming anyway). I actually got in last night to take advantage of the short lines for Thursday night registration.
After spending all morning on a development retrospective conference I ...
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23:55
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Cyber Anthropology
I’ll be heading in to Austin tomorrow to check in and get my badge before the crazy lines roll in Friday morning. Tomorrow night I’ll be at the Social Media BBQ at Emo’s. Friday I’ll start off in the Blogger’s ...
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20:01
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Cyber Anthropology
The Australian Government publishes a paper on Cyber Crime: Crime risks of three-dimensional virtual environments
Fastweb reveals that Google Chrome won the browser wars for February.
AP Reports (via Google News) are ruling by German high court: Telecom data cannot ...
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5:15
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Cyber Anthropology
I was talking in #fedora-mktg with Mel Chua today about my dilemma of finding a count of currently active Fedora Project contributors. So she whipped up a twill script in python to get a count on contributions based on FAS ...
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18:12
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Cyber Anthropology
During this next part of my research process I will be posting a survey available to all Fedora contributors. Luckily, this part of the participation process requires no signatures! So, those of you who were unable to participate in the ...
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15:48
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Cyber Anthropology
Today’s post brought to you by international privacy and the digital divide:
Fast Company reports: Google Execs are found guilty by an Italian court for privacy violations.
LA Times reports: China will require individuals seeking to establish personal websites to ...
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22:27
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Cyber Anthropology
Research design in anthropology is a tricky thing. It is the part of the process you do before you do anything else, and thus you do before you have any real sense of the situation in which you will be ...
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19:15
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Cyber Anthropology
If you would like to participate in the interview portion of the Fedora research project I am current conducting, please visit my informational post on it here!
I need at least 10 more willing participants by the end of next ...
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16:24
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Cyber Anthropology
An amusing look at the influx and seemingly sudden popularity of digital scholarship [Youtube Video] in academia as well as the rise of open courseware as an alternative means of education, by CriticalCommons.org....
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16:54
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Cyber Anthropology
After some great suggestions provided by a couple of people on alternative FLOSS tools for conducting interviews online, I thought I would ask the community if there were any preferred web based FLOSS survey tools available?
I’ll be constructing a ...
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4:32
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Cyber Anthropology
I hope you all are enjoying the new year. I had so much fun at FUDcon getting to know as many people as I could and participating in your wonderful Barcamp and Hackfest. You were all very welcoming and showed ...
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22:01
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Cyber Anthropology
Blogging hiatus is now over and what better way to get back in the saddle again than to start with a Webtwitch Wednesday post!
Big news today:
Google says: Sorry China, we will not be kowtowing to you any more.
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19:32
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Cyber Anthropology
Fudcon Tornoto was a blast - seriously, it reminded me why I miss lan parties (hey, I’m a gamer!). A bunch of hackers getting together and hacking for the LOVE of it was just awesome to witness and be a ...
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18:22
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Cyber Anthropology
So, here I am in a hackfest room for Zikula, actually using skills I have as a ui designer in css/html and contributing to the project.
Wait, what? I’ve just become a contributor. How did that happen?
Outsider looking in, ...
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5:36
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Cyber Anthropology
As we start upon this holiday week (in the US) I am pulling together my resources in preparation for the Fedora developer conference the first weekend in December.
Part of this process includes making my introduction to the Fedora group, ...
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4:27
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Cyber Anthropology
Hi!
First, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Diana and I am an anthropologist currently in the midst of attaining my Masters degree in Applied Anthropology from the University of North Texas. As a part of my studies ...
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6:03
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Cyber Anthropology
Though it seems a bit early to be thinking of SXSWi, it’s really only 4 months away!
What I found very interesting was the fact that while having a conversation about SXSW with a close friend of mine in the ...
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5:59
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Cyber Anthropology
I just finished reading Two Bits by Christopher Kelty.
I haven’t really had time to sit and think too much about it yet, but one thing that does jump out at me immediately is that the author is an anthropologist ...
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3:33
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Cyber Anthropology
Is it sad that I actually enjoyed debugging code tonight?
I suppose it’s not so much the act of debugging, but the success you have once you’ve figured it out. I call it a ding and refer to the way ...
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6:59
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Cyber Anthropology
“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.”
Earl Nightingale...
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5:38
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Cyber Anthropology
I had a great time today out at Sabre talking and networking with several usability folks. I think that our profession has a really interesting group of people in that we take up our cause to intentionally make the lives ...
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5:02
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Cyber Anthropology
Tomorrow is World Usability Day and this year they are focusing on the impact design has on our world.
I recommend a great book named, ‘Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things‘ for a look into this concept. ...
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6:47
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Cyber Anthropology
Just an observation tonight while raiding in World of Warcraft.
When I first started, the day the game came out, many of my fellow guildmates had to worry about school schedules or their parents allowing them to play. Tonight most ...
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6:35
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Cyber Anthropology
This is just an observation tonight while raiding in World of Warcraft.
When I first started almost exactly 5 years ago, the day the game came out, many of my fellow guildmates had to worry about school schedules or their ...
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3:10
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Cyber Anthropology
I use a four year old Mac G5 as my primary computer and a PC I built as my gaming machine / machine that runs all the stuff my Mac can’t (my G5 can’t run Parallels because it’s not an ...
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23:18
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Cyber Anthropology
I had a party at my house last night.
I rarely do this as I have a small place, a town home that while large in square footage with its three stories it is more vertical than horizontal, so its ...
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22:33
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Cyber Anthropology
Lately it feels as though I am running down the information super highway with one of those walking billboard over my shoulders that says ‘Looking for Work’ on one side and ‘Please Hire Me’ on the other as I yell ...
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Cyber Anthropology
My practicum research with Fedora officially started November 1st, however, I’ve used this entire week to try to talk my Institutional Review Board (the people who have to approve my research before I am allowed to do it) into allowing ...
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6:55
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Cyber Anthropology
‘So why did you go from anthropology to design?’
This is one of the most common questions I have been asked during my search for a job these last two weeks. What’s really funny though is that I technically went ...
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4:27
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Cyber Anthropology
‘So why did you go from anthropology to design?’
This is one of the most common questions I have been asked during my search for a job these last two weeks. What’s really funny though is that I technically went ...
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2:43
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Cyber Anthropology
As a part of my preparation for my research on Fedora I’ve taken on getting acquainted with OSS as well as looking up other peoples views on virtual ethnography. For those that are interested, I am sharing my list here.
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3:40
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Cyber Anthropology
My first test against my tech cred in my Fedora research has been generating an ssh key and setting up my blog on Fedora Planet the Fedora blog aggregator. I looked this up on several resources, understood what it was, ...
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22:15
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Cyber Anthropology
Same story different verse, next verse same as the first.
I was laid off.
Yep, it happens and has been happening all over the US for some time now. As a matter of fact it’s the third time I’ve been ...
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Cyber Anthropology
I’m sitting here at my computer trying to figure out how to join the Fedora blogroll and notice that the hat I was given on Wednesday night by a friend is in fact, a fedora.
Today my research for my ...
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18:25
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Cyber Anthropology
Nice to know I’ll be needed in the future.
From the article ‘Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future‘:
40.Interface Designer
Pretty soon your PC won’t be the only interactive digital element of your home. It’s ...
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Cyber Anthropology
So did the rest of the world, and a few sites are blogging about the reasons why. See the links below for more details.
FastCompany: Facebook and Twitter Attacks Were Political, and Personal
ZDNet: Did Russians attack Twitter ...
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22:49
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Cyber Anthropology
The podcast I created for SXSW Interactive has finally been posted. You can find it here on the extended content page. Or you can listen to it directly here.
This was ...
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17:29
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Cyber Anthropology
This comes from directly from Harvard Business:
Anthropologists and ethnographers. By having anthropologists study and interact with end-customers in their natural settings, Western firms can learn to tailor their business models and offerings to match users’ socio-economic and cultural ...
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Cyber Anthropology
Hot right now:
Google Wave: Productivity, Open Source, and Extendible
Windows Live Search becomes Bing.com
E3: New game news!
Microsoft’s Natal Controller & a BBC Report on it
PSP Go
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17:15
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Cyber Anthropology
You have met them before, may have children that are or even consider yourself one. This group of people cuts across all demographics including age, race, gender, class, nationality, and education (Squire and Steinkuehler, 2005). Together they spend an average ...
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22:20
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Cyber Anthropology
Freshly back from SXSWi - here we go again with another installment of Webtwitch Wednesday!
The list for today:
TweetDeck - I had seen this pop up on screens all across SXSW and had no idea what ...
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18:36
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Cyber Anthropology
As a way of keeping this blog updated more often, I am going to try to track my web twitches from week to week and post them here! My hope is to coalesce new information, technologies, and approaches as I ...
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17:41
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Cyber Anthropology
It’s been a while since I have updated! My apologies.
You see, I have been writing - a lot even. However, everything I have written has either been papers for class, or the script to my SXSW podcast. This ...
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5:16
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Cyber Anthropology
This semester I am taking Design Anthropology. I took this class as an undergrad and it is one of the reasons why I chose to pursue my masters in anthropology. The experience in working with a tech company, in both ...
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