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• Still Lusing “I’m thinking that there is something inherently subordinate to the term ‘user’” - Prof Mary Wong. via Doc Searls The term “user” has bugged me since I worked at “HannaHodge: User Experience Architects” 8 years back. A couple Octobers back, in First Crack #2 [mp3], I declared “There are no users”. “‘User’ is a term from the
• RE: How Do People Find The Time To Watch Television?  “…for the first time, society forced on an enormous number of people the requirement to manage something they’ve never had to manage before…which was free time. And what did we do with that free time? Mostly we panicked and spent it watching TV.” - Clay Shirky A nice reminder on what is actually active and social: “People
• 13.986 Driving back from WI this weekend, the car had alerted us a number of times we were running low on fuel. We didn’t stop. Until we reached the station closest to home (albeit one a few cents higher than the one we passed a few minutes earlier). The car has a 14 gallon tank. 14
• In My Right Mind I’ve yet to perceive the dancer spinning counter-clockwise. RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling “big picture” oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can “get it” (i.e. meaning) believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking
• Financial Shock: The Bad Decisions that Got Us Here  Financial Shock A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis is an amazing read. Amazing for 2 reasons: It was published in early 2008 and is covering - in-depth - the issues the news media is just now picking up on - e.g. the Fed nearly bailed