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14 Feb 09

15 Minutes of Fame: Anthropologist digs into WoW - WoW Insider

Meet Alex Golub, Ph.D., an anthropology professor at the University of Hawaii. Golub plays a Resto Shaman in a Wrath-era raiding guild who's researching what he calls the culture of raiding -- "why people do something as crazy as run 25-mans four days a week."

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  • Meet Alex Golub, Ph.D., an anthropology professor at the University of Hawaii. Golub plays a Resto Shaman in a Wrath-era raiding guild who's researching what he calls the culture of raiding -- "why people do something as crazy as run 25-mans four days a week."
29 Sep 08

Artist Builds Temple of Science | Wired Science from Wired.com

Science has two cultures within it. One is interested in questions, and the other in answers. I'm much more attracted to science for its questioning quality, and this overlaps with a respect for mystery in religion. Within religion, an inner strength come

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23 Jun 08

Jane Fong: Aiming to Bring Anime Online

First we've got Yong Fook, and now another Singaporean in Japan. ReadWriteWeb reports on Jane Fong, as a Woman, a Foreigner and an Entrepreneur in Japan. Her cross-cultural revelations are rather interesting and worth a good read.

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20 Jun 08

New Scientist Interview: The Cellphone Anthropologist (Nokia)

Jan Chipchase, a design researcher for Nokia, travels the globe exploring how people use their mobile devices, discovering how to make them better, how to reach the billions of people who don't own a phone - and learning a whole lot about people along.

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21 Apr 08

theorycast.38 :: Reality TV + Web 2.0 = DIY Celebrities

Here's an interview I did with communication researchers, Dr. Michael Stefanone and Derek Lackaff, a

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16 Apr 08

Interview - Clay Shirky on The Colbert Report

From this book "Here Comes Everybody", Clay Shirky encourages the Colbert Nation to do something interesting with Doritos bags.

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24 Mar 08

How I Blew My Google Interview: Silicon Alley Insider

Another form of web literature is emerging: stories of job applicants rejected by Google (GOOG). Google makes all applicants sign NDAs, of course--can't have future applicants boning up!

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11 Mar 08

PR 2.0: Sarah Lacy and the SXSW Mark Zuckerberg Keynote

Sarah Lacy gets to share her side of the story, and it looks like the crowd was just being extra rowdy.

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29 Feb 08

Susan Blackmore: Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes

Three reasons why people don't like memes: 1) Often misunderstood as simply ideas, when it's the copy process. 2) Fear that we lack free will. Thing is, if it's true, how we feel doesn't matter. 3) No testible predictions yet. Need to find pattern.

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22 Oct 07

How Justin.TV's Live Video System Was Born

Kyle Vogt hand-built version 1.0 of Justin.tv's lifecam from some off-the-shelf parts, a grip of EVDO cards and some "borrowed" equipment from MIT. Good stuff...

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Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA

MPAA hired a hacker, to get information legally? An illustration of the unethical extent of anti-piracy action.

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17 Apr 07

Setting up the Second Life "Singapore Island" sim: Interview with Alvin

The Rambling Librarian interviews Alvin who runs Lion City, which is a virtual Singapore in Second Life.

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