Life: If you’re bored, you’re doing it wrong — Élan Lee
we should all be car­ry­ing buck­ets with us every­where we go
they are the key to enter­tain­ment because you can just walk in any­where with one (even doors with “unau­tho­rized per­sons” signs on them)
described the games “toast” and “sand­bags” (flood­board­ing)
can find fun all around us if you can extract enter­tain­ment from the world around you
cloth­ing with hid­den mes­sages in the stitch­ing, invis­i­ble inks, etc.; tell sto­ries through cloth­ing
every­one should answer pay­phones all the time — it’s an invi­ta­tion into a whole new world
– it could be an invi­ta­tion to become a super­hero
“i love bees“
think up a ques­tion and call a cus­tomer ser­vice line (call Butterball’s line and ask them if god exists)
there’s always some­thing to do out there
(pecha kucha” for­mat with progress bar)

Sup­port­ing Social Deviance — Cliff Lempe
any­time you vio­late norms of a com­mu­nity
crime, sex, obs­cen­tiy, vio­lence, etc.
most of the inter­est­ing online com­mu­ni­ties are pri­vately owned (by Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.)
open ques­tions:
– why do we have to all get along?
– does mis­be­hav­ior have its place in online com­mu­ni­ties?
– how can users voice their dis­sent with own­ers of online com­mu­ni­ties?
– why types of deviance shouldn’t we support?

what role does social deviance play in bring­ing down a com­mu­nity?
need to allow a cer­tain amount of deviance to test boundaries

Beth Kolko — adapt­ing to cell phones
inter­net in many places of the world takes hap­pens in pub­lic places
“being online” = chat­ting
“being on the inter­net” = down­load­ing data
com­mu­ni­ca­tion ver­sus infor­ma­tion
“col­lec­tive tech­nolo­gies“
cell phones are not col­lec­tive through­out the entire world
mobile usage out­num­bers com­puter usage 2:1
peo­ple don’t trust local enti­ties for access
social net­work­ing via SMS is the way else­where in the world
SMS makes more sense than the inter­net

Online Video Gets Social — Mary Mad­den
57% of online adults watch or down­load online video
of those who have broad­band at home, 66% watch or down­load online video
only 8% of adults have uploaded a video
multi-channel, anno­tated com­mu­ni­ca­tion with web 2.0
at what point do we dis­con­nect and not inter­act because of infor­ma­tion overload?

Search­Party: A Design Con­cept for Social Search — Thomas Erick­son
aim is to design visu­al­iza­tions that show the pres­ence and activ­i­ties of peo­ple in online sys­tems
imag­ine if you could con­duct a search in public

(Jenny: this would be an inter­est­ing way to visu­al­ize vir­tual ref­er­ence transactions)

pro­gres­sive engage­ment:
– glimpses of activ­ity (entice)
– watch­ing (imi­tate)
– kib­itz­ing (share)
– act­ing (commit)

mak­ing peo­ple and their activ­i­ties vis­i­ble to one another is a pow­er­ful way of sup­port­ing coör­di­na­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion in online contexts

Jerry Michal­ski — pres­ence
a lazy­web set of ideas
why is it so hard for me to share my screen?
why does it still take me 20 min­utes of setup for an enhanced con­fer­ence call?
why isn’t there a sim­ple com­par­i­son tool wid­get?
why can’t I high­light, anno­tate, com­ment on email in my email pro­gram?
why are the tools so awful when you try to bring peo­ple together into a group?
the tools are still in the “Model T” phase

Clay Shirky
dif­fu­sion changes the tech­nol­ogy, not just adop­tion
flash mobs as a form of polit­i­cal protest, announced in pub­lic, that can’t be traced to spe­cific peo­ple
let’s all walk around “octo­ber square” smil­ing — the secret police have to then decide if this is a polit­i­cal act
showed Twit­ter feed of some­one arrested in Egypt
you don’t just drop this stuff in and get rev­o­lu­tion, but some­thing is going on here
makes him hope­ful, moreso than the lol­cats
any­thing that low­ers trans­ac­tions costs can be valu­able, whether or not the older gen­er­a­tion under­stands it
“the more peo­ple use it for their cats, the eas­ier it is to use polit­i­cally” — Clay quot­ing some­one else
if you really want some­thing to be adopted, espe­cially in repres­sive regimes with some inter­net access, make sure it has util­ity to the entire pop­u­la­tion
showed Tunisian prison map as an under­ap­pre­ci­ated tool
the change in com­mon knowl­ege to pub­lic knowledge

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