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Re: How to Use Maps for Change with Ushahidi

oso — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:48:35 -0000

Just thinking aloud: I wonder if there's a sweet spot between "failing easy" and requiring users to think through their strategy before going live. To Ushahidi's credit, they're signup page has a link to a document of minimal best practices before launching an Ushahidi map for crises. But what if they added two more fields to their sign-up page: 1) What is your objective? 2) How will this map help you achieve your objective?

Re: http://antoniomarvel.tumblr.com/post/25033794526

oso — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:19:08 -0000

Guru digital!!

Re: http://www.newsvagabond.com/post/816956226

oso — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:07:42 -0000

You polysyllabic cerebral wordsmith you.

Re: culturemodding (like thinking about maps unfolding into shapes— ...)

oso — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:59:24 -0000

Sadly I tend to spend most of my time folding uncooperative shapes into semblances of maps.

Re: ZADI DIAZ

oso — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:49:17 -0000

Totally. This is such a summer album. I'm glad I live in a place where it feels like summer in winter.

Re: Squarespace - Claim This Domain

oso — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:41:14 -0000

Ha, if peter broderick and robert johnson are the slices of bread, that is one strange sandwich.

Re: Squarespace - Claim This Domain

oso — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:47:55 -0000

You're getting the 7D? I'm having such a tough time deciding between the MarkII, 7D, and Nikon 300s. I already have Nikon lenses so it's brutal to think of switching to Canon, but then again the MarkII seems so amazing.

Re: Squarespace - Claim This Domain

oso — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:01:03 -0000

I had to try the Disqus tweeting. That's pretty cool.

Re: Squarespace - Claim This Domain

oso — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:59:40 -0000

I like it too. Whole thing had me smiling. But I am concerned often that "what threads us together" is so often only American culture ... and a specific slice of American culture at that. I think that you and Irina should walk around Venice and get all the crazies to sing along to R.Lizer's Freestailo. They have to do the dance too.

Re: ZADI DIAZ

oso — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:41:37 -0000

So true, sadly.

Re: Introduce yourselves

oso — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:30:14 -0000

Hi Hang. I came to your blog for the first time back in June when you wrote about "The killer app for iPhone 3GS". I was doing some research for this year's Ars Electronica symposium, which I am co-curating with Chinese blogger Isaac Mao. I also agree that statistics should be the foundation of math education (I hate it when journalists use statistics incorrectly in their reporting) and I related to a lot of what you wrote in "The no obnoxious rich people paradox." So I've stayed subscribed. The funny thing is, you're one of the few blogs I follow that I don't know how to classify. I have you in my "technology" folder right now, but you write about much more than just tech. Which is good - I enjoy the diversity of thought.

Re: ZADI DIAZ

oso — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:58:17 -0000

You do have the South Bronx badass swagger though. JK.

Speaking of storytelling and Africa, have you seen Chris Abani's presentation at TED? It's one of my favorites ...

(And he writes frequently about Los Angeles ...)

Re: ZADI DIAZ

oso — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:57:16 -0000

And, speaking of Joburg, how come that "DJ" didn't have this on his iPod?

Re: ZADI DIAZ

oso — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:55:55 -0000

I'm definitely down for the success of amateur filmakers, no doubt. But I feel like this film plays on the already-much-hyped South African paranoia of violence. And it also plays on foreigners' perceptions of Joburg as a wildly violent city of gangsters and vigilantes, which as we discovered, isn't what Joburg is like at all. Would be great to see a film about Johannesburg that simply treats it like the city it is.

Re: ZADI DIAZ

oso — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:14:09 -0000

When I saw the Microsoft Office Labs video the first thought I had was, now why no holograms?

Re: ZADI DIAZ

oso — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:07:00 -0000

Matisyahu, Journey, and Foreigner!! Ha. And, yes, I feel like a bad person for only commenting on the music posts. Remember the people in the restaurant in Soweto singing along to Toto's Africa? Hilarious. That moment redeemed the song for me.

Re: ZADI DIAZ

oso — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:57:05 -0000

Damn homie. You're quoting from my favorite book, and then listening to Digable Planets + Fleetwood Mac! Better back off.

Re: HowTo: About 40twits.com

oso — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:11:02 -0000

Is there a way to request an account? Thanks.