I had a discussion today with a friend about the pace of today’s society. I am not sure how we ended up in the discussion about what ignorance really is. The discussion made me reflect on what ignorance really is. She described herself as ignorant as all her friends did have a certain level of [...]
Categories: personal
Personally, I would definitely like to, even in the technology intense future, have time to sit back, relax and reflect without the sense of having to be online all the time. What scares me is that I sometimes feel the need to be online all the time, and that even when I am offline, I [...]
Categories: Social communities
I spent my usual hour browsing my feeds in Bloglines and found a highly relevant topic. It describes the necessity to link any design with the userbility. This is a highly relevant topic that cannot be to highly prioritated when building any kind of product. Via Digital Web, Jess McMullin has come up with one [...]
Categories: Internet
Two weeks ago, during an offsite camp at Asilomar in Monterey I went on a long night walk on my own down by the beach. Seeing the stars, feel the smell of ocean, feel the nightly breeze from the ocean and hear the waves moving into shore was just great. I stood by the Pacific [...]
Categories: personal
Last week the Digital Vision program went on an offsite, during which we discussed the need for communications in case of an disaster. The key to success in the aid work after a disaster such as the tsunami last year, the earthquake in Pakistan is to set up the communications. In case of a disaster [...]
Categories: Disaster
"The smile…is used by humans to hide the truth….But sadness, like understanding, comes early in life for some. It is part of intelligence." I had a chat with a friend, who gave me the quote from a book she is reading now. Is that really true? Are we using the smile to cover up the [...]
Categories: personal
“The bad folks take advantage of the fact the we have no shared social fabric. Can you, Erik, take advantage of that and build one where space is made?” An answer: to find the right future role of the virtual social communities. The question above was raised during a discussion with a friend the other [...]
Categories: Social communities
Some good reading