A new science for a new age
Leader What Sir Tim proposes is nothing less than an anthropology of the web. That's fine — but anthropology already exists, as do the studies of everything else that concerns him. Social science, cognitive science, even anthropology — all have suffered...
[November 2, 2006, 13:00]
Special Events Coordinator Plans for Success With SmartDraw
White Papers The facility houses several galleries related to anthropology and archeology, a planetarium, observatory, reference library, as well as a 2,900-square-foot community center for public and private events.
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Why Users Aren't Moving to Linux
Blog Comment As a strategy, it has some solid anthropology behind it too. Hmm. Be cool. Pay more". Hardly a tactic for driving mass market adoption is it - especially now? I stand by my earlier assertion, which is that, broadly speaking, there's no greater used...
[May 14, 2009, 10:38]
Start-up hops into mini-keyboard market
News The size reduction is possible through a close analysis of human anthropology and typing styles, according to Linda Marroquin, FrogPad's CEO. FrogPad is out to make the keyboard the size of your palm.
[November 17, 2003, 14:40]
Microgeography - or, sitting next to people means you talk more
Blog And what did they find out, these mighty brains focussed so tightly on the minutiae of office anthropology? Only back in the office for a couple of hours, and already my "News Stories Of The Flamingly Obvious" folder is open.
[January 7, 2008, 13:23]
CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy review
Reviews Contributors include James Love, director of the Consumer Project on Technology and a strong opponent of tight intellectual property regimes in the health area; Richard Stallman, the progenitor of the open-source movement; plus experts on subjects...
[July 1, 2005, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A keen student of anthropology would at this point be able to diagnose panic in the body language of one of the two parties. The gong season is progressing nicely, and Dan Ilett is off doing his bit at the PR Week awards.
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
The selfish genes
Leader Groupware has a bigger task than does ordinary client software: while the latter needs usability insights into individuals, the former requires anthropology and sociology on top. Customer relationship management software isn't used to postive...
[February 23, 2005, 13:55]
How to lead the unleadable
Leader In this respect, open source has the same anthropology as science. How do you lead people you don't pay and can't sack? This might seem a question for vicars and politicians rather than a technologist working at the cutting edge of practical IT...
[February 8, 2008, 14:15]
Microsoft seeks better friends
News It's not really a breakthrough in computer science as much as it is an exercise in cultural anthropology. That's one of several problems that Microsoft's research arm is trying to address as part of a push into "social computing.
[March 5, 2004, 8:50]
The machine that wanted to be a mind
News A new sister discipline to AI, cognitive science, has started up to try and track down the mechanisms of mind: while it can say that linguistics, philosophy, neurochemistry, anthropology and so on are all part of the mix, it can't say how these...
[January 23, 2001, 13:45]
