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25 Sep 09

Museum 2.0

  • the rubric of participatory models introduces a language that can be useful to many kinds of institutions and projects.
  • In citizen science projects, the public is invited to participate in "real science" by working with scientists on projects that benefit from mass participation around the world. But most citizen science projects are contributory; participants collect data based on specifications determined by scientists, to help answer questions posed by scientists. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results. Unsurprisingly, studies have shown that these kinds of citizen science projects are enormously successful at engaging the public with science but are not successful at exposing participants to the entire scientific process.
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13 May 09

Chrysler, Culture and Cerberus - BusinessWeek

  • which is more important in business—numbers or culture. Coming from a tech background, he believes data. Coming from a design background, I believe culture.
  • The bankruptcy of Chrysler is a great space to analyze this confrontation. I would argue that Chrysler thrived when it’s brands and design aligned with American culture. Jeep, Dodge—muscle stuff. Vans—family stuff. Chrysler failed when got out of touch with US culture—and merged with German car culture. Daimler Benz ran the numbers and saw efficiencies of scale. It believed it could cut costs by sharing components, technology, people and design. Never happened. Daimler presented the takeover of Chrysler as a merger of equals and when its own culture of organizational hierarchy met Chrysler’s culture of—well, not that—the merger failed. The two couldn’t share technology, products, people or brands.
13 Mar 09

Institut | Nicod :: [ijn_00000123, version 1] The Trouble with Memes: Inference versus Imitation in Cultural Creation

  • Memes are hypothetical cultural units passed on by imitation; although nonbiological, they undergo Darwinian selection like genes. Cognitive study of multimodular human minds undermines memetics: unlike in genetic replication, high-fidelity transmission of cultural information is the exception, not the rule. Constant, rapid "mutation" of information during communication generates endlessly varied creations that nevertheless adhere to modular input conditions. The sort of cultural information most susceptible to modular processing is that most readily acquired by children, most easily transmitted across individuals, most apt to survive within a culture, most likely to recur in different cultures, and most disposed to cultural variation and elaboration.
12 Mar 09

Digital Ethnography: Smartpen as a digital ethnography tool

  • In short, it records audio as you write and links what you are writing to the audio (by recording what you write through a small infrared camera near the tip of the pen).  When you are done recording you can actually tap the pen anywhere on your page and the pen will play the audio that was recorded at the time you were making that specific pen stroke.  Students are already sharing lecture notes in the community section of livescribe.com.
04 Mar 09

brand tags

noah brier's crowdsourcing brand perception tool...

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marketing crowdsourcing advertising culture creativity

  • The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people's heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is. 1.5 million + tags and counting.
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