weblog January 31, 2003   Evening. Dirty horizons, distant shades of white. Whispering ashen clouds, heading west, across foreign jagged lines. My envious breath, eager for freedom. Helium flashes of deserted tarmac streams. I hum the squealing tune of rolling rubber, crimson firefly streaks, under impressionist skies. Concrete. Damp. Still. Silent. Patient. Waiting. Posted by fabio sergio | 6:27 PM | permalink   Always-on networks. Funny how some themes seem to suddenly emerge out of the (primordial) meme soup. Via Kevin Werbach here's the Always-on Network. Targeted to the business-focused crowd the site aims to address and discuss topics related to our always-on (western) world. The names behind the initiative, Stanford University, Accenture and KPMG among others, are, to say the least, well-known and influential. I have to admit that I had to overcome first feelings of discomfort (not to mention the most annoying pop-up window I've encountered lately) before I actually started appreciating bits and pieces of what the site has to offer. My feeling is that, given the brands involved, it is important to understand how business strategists relate to recent changes brought by mobile connectivity. The financial world, whether we like it or not, is still the one who ends up dictating the rules of the game. Knowing where it's heading and how it relates to these themes can help the design community to better understand how to influence decision makers. The site promises to enable and promote open discussions, so it could be interesting to stick around, participate and just see what happens. Posted by fabio sergio | 12:23 PM | permalink ............ January 30, 2003   Metrologs. Two sites that map webloggers to their closest metro stations: New York City Bloggers and London Bloggers . While both are just plain cool, I found myself appreciating the way the London incarnation lets you select a specific station and then shows all webloggers based on their distance from it. I'd love to see a graphical rendition of the concept! The site also helped me form a rough idea on where Mr. Jones, Mr. Hill and Mr. Hammersley happen to be (at times) located. Both links via the Headmap blog. If you can only read one weblog a day, I'd warmly suggest it to be Headmap's these days. Seriously. Posted by fabio sergio | 4:34 PM | permalink   Getting what you deserve. Almost at the same time both Anne Galloway and I caused strong reactions with our opinions about weblogs. (Note to self: talking about weblogs is akin to juggling beehives, don't do it if you fear getting stung.) I just realized how hilarious it is that while Anne's bright ideas sparked an interesting and thoughtful discussion among several Reverends and Professors of Theology, my nonsense stimulated the succint reaction of a sex writer over at Salon (I'll let you guess what GIF links to freegorifero. ;) My Catholic side must be laughing its ass off. Well, reactions were at least in line with "values" professed... Now, that is User Experience. Posted by fabio sergio | 3:33 PM | permalink ............ January 29, 2003   P2P meets Social Software. Jonathan Jaynes pointed me to Hello World, an up-coming software that will supposedly merge hot features such as Instant Messaging, Geo-location and Web(log ?) Publishing. While I share Jonathan's doubts regarding the rationale behind certain User Interface decisions, there are a couple of aspects that are worth considering. As far as I could understand from wading through the marketing mumbo-jumbo, Hello World has taken the P2P model and used it as a conduit for "social" content. The minds behind Hello World explain the idea by introducing the concept that your Desktop will become a node on your friends' Connectedland Map: "Enabling each PC to become a live and communicating node on the Internet, a fully participatory computing device, is the defining evolution from the Desktop to the Desknode.". Hmm...er...yes. Adding RSS reading capabilities would actually turn this application into some kind of first step in the direction highlighted by the guys over at Headmap when they referred to the Desktop as an aggregator. Incidentally other recent conversations have also been focusing on "uber-browsers", while (the ubiquitous) Jason Kottke has posted interesting ideas on how the newly released, much debated Apple Safari Browser could be made better by incorporating entire other applications. I am left wondering why in the end all these different paths end up spiraling towards the old "all-encompassing vs. specialized", "centralized vs. distributed" black hole. Thinking about it Microsoft has so far failed both with its Active Desktop and Digital Dashboard to change the way people refer to the metaphor that mediates our relationship with most digital tools. Maybe people want their desktop to be just that. A desktop. A passive, lifeless, cluttered surface with files and shortcuts (dis)ordinately arranged in random configurations. Or maybe that's just my neo-luddite side talking. Posted by fabio sergio | 2:19 PM | permalink ............ January 28, 2003   Always-on weblogs. (In which the blogger's post turns out to be longer than the essay it refers to.) In the past few days I've received and read comments on Always-on people from people who both agree and disagree with my thinking. I found them all valuable and thoughtful, and they helped spark more ideas. Here they are. Let's just consider things from another angle altogether. As Albert-László Barabási states in Chapter 8 of his excellent book, “Linked, the New Science of Networks”: ”Nodes always compete for connections because links represent survival in an interconnected world." I feel this rings true when referring to weblogs, especially when looking back at the last couple of years or so. Adam Greenfield sums it up by talking about "self awareness": anyone who joins the blogging crowd now knows the phenomenal level of notoriety that some so-called "A-List" webloggers can achieve. In his book Barabási explains very clearly that Scale-free Networks, such as Cyberspace, are characterized by a law similar to the old saying "The rich get, richer". What it means is that nodes with lots of links continue to incrementally attract more and more links, and thus well-known sites keep getting more and more references, even if everybody already knows about them. At the same time Barabási also explains why introducing a "fitness" variable into the equation can cause the sudden raise to fame even of brand new nodes. Simply put "fitter" nodes, those that better answer specific needs, can very quickly start to compete with existing, dominant nodes. In the book this concept is used to explain the "overnight" supremacy achieved by Google at the expense of older, at the time more famous, search engines (remember AltaVista?). This also means that even if people like Jason Kottke will keep getting linked to by most new and old bloggers, any "fit" newcomer stands a chance at taking the Blogosphere by storm. Barabási's book thus provides an answer to recently refueled diatribes around Joe Clark's (in)famous article, "De-constructing You've got Blog" (Clark was wrong. And right.), and it also points out that there is indeed an undeclared competition for attention in the Blogosphere. Nodes compete for connections. And here's where things start to get interesting. When instead of nodes you consider people, always-on people, the final result is what else other than anxiety, or what Ashley Benigno has called "immediate response syndrome": ".. the need to answer an email, reply to a voicemail, provide a solution NOW.". Competition. Weblogs. The final result is a natural, fully understandable urge to be the first to post an interesting link before the immanent nature of the web has instantly turned it stale (read: picked up by everyone and blogged to death). Blog-it. NOW. Can anyone who maintains a weblog claim in all honesty never to have fallen victim to this desire to lead, rather than follow? How many weeks, days, hours can you go before you start to think "I've got to post something"? The risk involves getting caught in a vicious circle in which digital technologies drive speed and immediacy and then, when people can't keep up, provide new tools that at first seem to help, but in the end only exacerbate the very problem they aimed to solve. If, say, the issue is having less and less time to follow a link and explore where it leads to, having a quicker way to "blog-it" won't really address your need, it will actually just push further a "faster is better" model. You won't be having more time to explore, you'll be blogging-it more. You'll be blogging-it faster. You'll be blogging-it NOW. I really have nothing against people who decide to post "bare" lists of links, to share them via RSS or other means, or who simply devise clever, automated ways to make it easier to keep their link lists updated. Quite the contrary, really. I am indeed completely fascinated by recent changes brought by RRS Aggregators. What gets me a bit nervous is the reasoning (or passive acceptance) that might be behind what gets passed as the "great next technical" improvement. Because technology has already proven it can't always provide solutions to the problems it has helped create. Similar considerations bring us to Jonathan Jaynes' "always-acting people", to Anne Galloway's "blogging rules" and even to Adam Greenfield's "The quiet tyranny of the automatic update". Who writes the rules for always-acting people? Who plays the role of the tyrant? I feel that the Design community ought to think and advocate for ways in which humane, social qualities can be incorporated in the way digital tools fit in our lives and help mediate our social relationships. I guess in the end it all adds up to how you relate to weblogs in general, which is, I know, akin to biblical debates on the gender of angels. As I've said in the past, I feel weblogs are in some way the oral history of DataSpace. Song-lines that can be followed to unknown and wonderful places. What I don't like about most automated link lists is that they are like road signs in Wonderland, indicators that appear and disappear, providing no context, leaving no trace. Roadmaps of the Ever-NOW. Along these lines the people over at Headmap have recently posted great ideas around ways to provide geo-spatial info to weblog posts. While the concept itself is simply intriguing ("... just getting geographic coordinates in there would give you a globe full of thoughts ..."), it also provides ample food for thought for the argument at hand. RSS aggregators, like NetNewsWire or Syndirella, have lately enabled people to read posts de-coupled from the rest of the thinking-flow usually associated with weblog pages: "the latest RSS aggregators actually present individual posts from different blogs according to freshness ... so that the blog post is out on its own and not tied to the other posts on the blog it originated from. what's emerging is the idea of a desktop as [at least partly] an aggregator. ... blogs are important at the moment because they force random thoughts [and useful information] into small organized chunks of data. generally data which would otherwise be very hard to get people to organize. ... context is really a blogging tool add-on." Which brings us back to my doubts on automated lists of "bare" links. Isolated, ever changing lists of links don't speak to me exactly because they fully lack context. How did the blogger get there? Why? Where did he/she go next? Even more importantly, what if I saw a link on your pages and can't find it again? A very recent example involves Matt Webb's pages and a link about snow crystals. I had seen the link but had no time to follow it. The following day I went back to Matt's pages and found out the reference had disappeared, pushed into oblivion by Matt's further explorations. Headmap's arguments, even if coming from a different angle, also point to potential solutions. Find ways to at least provide context to your bare links: categorize (time, topic, whatever) and archive them, just like (the ever-present) Jason Kottke has already started doing . Time for a semi-final counterpoint. As Adam rightly says ,"lists of links" have been the very first incarnation of weblogs (love the entomology parallel by the way, my friend), so it could only be natural that the original soul of these pages has now resurfaced through enhanced and improved means. All of the above (like most of my words) might thus be proven wrong. Or, more likely, useless. Posted by fabio sergio | 11:15 AM | permalink ............ January 24, 2003   Our tiny blogging globe. Long overdue pointer to a new, great idea from Headmap. A true 3D Blogosphere, a rotating view of the earth hooked-up to GeoURL's servers, showing where bloggers are located on our always-on planet. Other than a slightly opaque User Interface and a heavy footprint the Java Applet is a great way to search for voices closest to you (a zooming function would help, really). I found myself totally fascinated by the isolated spots in the middle of oceans or close to the poles. The greenish globe also happens to be a pretty unsettling way to rapidly realize that the Digital Divide is indeed alive and well. Posted by fabio sergio | 3:59 PM | permalink ............ January 22, 2003   Social mobility. The Economist has published "Think before you talk. Can technology make mobile phones less socially disruptive?", which points to one more great idea-set by design think-tank IDEO: Social Mobiles. (Both links via Mademoiselle Galloway) The article and IDEO's case study reminded me of a similar conversation on Peter Merholz's (recently silent) pages. The (heated) debate highlighted how the overall design of this private object that's used in public has so far lacked taking into consideration one very important aspect. Its context of use. [...insert animated GIF of usability experts happily nodding away right here...] Along these lines also check out a recent article in The Japan Times, "Gadgets gnaw at polite society" and Jonathan Jaynes' interesting comments to freegorifero's "Always-on people". Posted by fabio sergio | 7:04 PM | permalink ............ January 21, 2003   Always-on people. We live in a world where connected-ness is changing the way we live, think and relate to each other. As Adam Greenfield has recently said, an Age of Social Machines. Some changes are great, some are good and some need thinking. Careful thinking. If you have a bit of time to waste take a look at freegorifero's new short essay: "Always-on people" Just a few (somewhat troubled) thoughts about a few things I noticed lately. Hope you enjoy it. As usual, let me know. As a side note I have received a few e-mails complaining about some of freegorifero's un-usable features. Specifically small text and color-blind unfriendly link colors. I apologize and will just say that my usability-focused side often looses the battle with my design-focused side. I know, I know, nobody's perfect... Anyway, I have (slightly) increased the text size and I am working on a solution for links color. Again please let me know if you think the text size increase is indeed noticeable/helpful or not. In general I'd love to trick freegorifero into a PHP-powered, RSS and Comment-enhanced, W3C-valid, Creative Commons-copyrighted hot rod. Unfortunately I am at the moment down to 6 hours of sleep a night and still in bad need of longer (much longer) days. For now I am afraid you'll have to live with patiently (and lovingly) tweaked incarnations of the very site you've been looking at for the past months. Sorry. Posted by fabio sergio | 4:05 PM | permalink ............ January 17, 2003   Love is in the details. A few days ago Dan Hill talked about The Wilhelm Scream, a series of movie screams taped in 1951 that have been included in a number of movies ever since. The story itself was fascinating, but it also made me think about the way it's the little, indiscernible details that sometimes make all the difference. Small acts of love that are even more valuable because they are done knowing no one will even notice. Anybody who has ever spent time coding will know what I am talking about. I remember from my Lingo days the subtle pleasure that came from adding comments I knew no one would ever read. Avoiding the most obvious and crude solutions and spending (precious) time looking for simpler, cleaner alternatives. The cognitive, sensual pleasure of the elegance of code. On a completely different note I often find myself observing Valeria when she's busy with banal, everyday activities and I realize what a gift I've been given to be able to see her without all the shields and masks that we are keen on adorning ourselves with, even with those who we trust. We are strange creatures. Always worried about projecting a controlled version of our own self to the outside world. Always trying to somehow predict the ambushes that reality often sets up along our paths though life. I could bore you silly with all the whys I love Valeria, but it's the way she moves her hands while combing her hair, her dancing steps across our old terra-cotta floor, all the unconscious little things she does when not aware that I am around that always have me stop and stare. Silent. At peace. Posted by fabio sergio | 2:10 PM | permalink ............ January 14, 2003   Essay fever. Anne Galloway has fallen victim to the disease and now it's going to take weeks to just read all the great stuff she has made available on her site. Posted by fabio sergio | 8:44 PM | permalink   Psycho-Socio- Archeo-Info-Geography. Assorted links around Psycogeography, Weblogs, People, Architecture and Software, on the way to (possibly, one day in a far far future, in a far away galaxy) an essay. Via the Headmap Blog here's Social Fiction, where Psycogeography meets Open Source and you can find out how The construction of a hive mind relates to Warchalking (recently declared dead elsewhere). Jason Kottke on realistic maps and what Adam Greenfield had to say about it. Geo URL, a way to spatially locate Bloggers on our tiny little planet, and 10-20, to do the same with any vehicle in North America. Architecture meets complexity theory in Nikos Salingaros' mind-expanding papers, where you'll find essays such as "An Information Architecture Approach to Understanding Cities". The (these days much needed) final solution to all religious and political belief-related social issues: Plug 'n Pray kits (in Italian, but pretty self-explanatory and downright hilarious). Posted by fabio sergio | 11:02 AM | permalink ............ January 13, 2003   More on design and adaptation. Anne Galloway had long ago posted interesting comments to my nonsense on Dan Hill's Designing for Adaptation talk. Her bright ideas and questions, as usual, stimulated more thoughts. After the longest time, here they are. I'd like to start by quoting Steven Kyffin, Director of Design at Philips Design, from the 14th installment of Philips Design's own magazine, NewValueNews (download PDF here): "Design was once the province of craftspeople making things. Then it became design for mass-manufacture, and it is now design for mass-customization. In the future it will be design of the immaterial." This might be a good starting point to tackle what Anne said relating to differences and similarities between craft and design: "...this was a false friction in the sense that "we have never been modern" and such easy dichotomies have never actually been practiced." While I'd like to go off on a tangent about why I think this might not be entirely true when referring to product design (i.e. physical artifacts), I'll restrain myself to say that I completely agree when referring to digital, interactive artifacts. Take the web for example. I guess it's pretty evident that the bulk of what's available on-line is the work of amateurish crafts(wo)men, not that of trained designers. The beauty of the web is that anybody with a text editor and a few Ks on a server can in no time put something together for the whole world to see. That includes anything between Praystation and one of the billion half-hearted attempts at achieving presence on the web, this very site included. The web is the best example of the success of amateurs: empowered imperfection, borrowing once more Dan's words. So, how can designers play a role in an environment where mass-production takes on a completely different (not worse, mind you) meaning? By relating to mass production not as mass-identity, but as mass-personalization. Anne says: "It strikes me that designers should indeed hold on to the notion of letting go - of relinquishing absolute (and elitist) control over both the design process and product. I'm a big believer in the power of many (different) voices, but, to me, that doesn't mean rendering the designer invisible. If anything, the designer should be the one who (visibly and actively) follows the entire process from "beginning to end" ... and yet remains only one of many voices shaping the whole experience." My answer is yes. And no. Think about the whole Open Source movement. Now name one developer in the Linux community other than Linus Thorvald. Still thinking? Once again the power of the many at work. There's an underlying message here that's changing the rules of the game. Could it be that digital technologies have helped create a shared space where boundaries between educated and grass-root skills have disappeared? Were the trenches between academics and professionals have been filling up, as Peter Merholz has recently noticed? I think so. But I also agree with Anne that referring to designers as humble enablers, should not fool anybody into thinking that the power they hold will be thus diminished. To define the result is the work of man, but to define the rules is the work of God. It is likely that designers will be more and more involved with defining the rules and less and less involved with detailing the final outcome. A good example along these lines comes from a recent essay on First Monday that deals with the way designers can actually enable people to help create the very same tools they end up using: "Beyond "Couch Potatoes": From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors". As Matt Webb has (repeatedly) stated, those who deal with adaptive artifacts should thus start to relate to themselves as part of an ecology: "Tiny steps, filling niches, each new piece of development just taking advantage of what's already there, and creating new capabilities ... but it's undirected, not goal oriented, and slow. It can't be forced." Welcome to a Unix-fied approach to design. Interestingly all of this, seen from a product design perspective, reminds me of the days when most artifacts were "designed" by unknown people in technical departments. Objects whose mix of beauty and functionality is still hard to match today. Un-design, using Jason Kottke's signature tagline. In this case perfection came from slow evolution through use, possibly because often those who designed these products also used them daily. Tools that over time adapted to the task they were required to perform, to their target users, in their context of use (as a Usability expert would probably require me to say). Warm memories of Ettore Castiglioni's memorable lessons. The 80ish icon of Italian design, eyes shining like a kid in a candy store, would open up his bag of tricks and reveal to students an amazing array of everyday objects. Eyewear, tools and bottles, all shaped by unknown hands. Enough. Did I answer Anne's doubts and questions? Unlikely. Hopefully I haven't just bored you to death as well. Posted by fabio sergio | 2:39 PM | permalink ............ January 10, 2003   Dragon Naturally Driving. As you might know, I am commuting everyday to work, a long one-hour-plus drive each way. I am always frustrated at the way these 120 minutes seem to disappear, leaving just a dull feeling of uselessness as I step out of my oversized Swedish golf cart. This Christmas Valeria has been kind enough to send my way a copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking, and I’ve been toying with the software ever since. The latest experiment involves propping up my laptop on the passenger seat, strapping it up with the seat belt, inserting the headset-microphone combo and blabbering off while driving. The funniest part so far involves re-reading my already senseless dribble, mangled by the effects my dubious pronunciation has on the software's speech-recognition capabilities. I have to admit though that just speaking your thoughts aloud sometimes enables to capture a few interesting ideas. So if on the highway between Varese and Milano, around 8 o'clock in the morning, you see a bald guy talking into a microphone you now know that that’s me. Or some other desperate telling someone he’s late because of heavy traffic. Posted by fabio sergio | 12:04 PM | permalink ............ January 09, 2003   More Moblogging tools. Software House NewBay has jumped on the Moblog bandwagon and is offering a product called FoneBlog. No need to explain what the software is supposed to do, right? The interesting thing is that, perhaps inspired by Adam Greenfield, NewBay is targeting its application not to consumers but to mobile operators instead. Incidentally also Danger, maker of the (in)famous HipTop, has just launched its own mobile weblogging community, HipTop Hiplog. I have a feeling we are just floating around the tip of the iceberg here... Posted by fabio sergio | 5:15 PM | permalink   Conversations with Google. Office life in a multi-disciplinary environment leaves ample room for entertaining, mind-expanding games. My colleagues come from backgrounds ranging from semiotics and psychology to engineering and economics, thus enabling the birth of the "obscure quote" ritual. While chitchatting about the usual nonsense some of us will pepper the conversation with words and names of thinkers the others are unlikely to know, or to creatively use assonance to lead the group into unknown knowledge realms. I've been noticing a curious fact lately. If the conversation takes place, say, in front of a cup of coffee, there's a much higher chance that the joke will succeed, resulting in the desired curious, empty stares from the audience. If instead we are sitting at our desks, people tend to catch up much more quickly. The answer to this riddle is to be found in the tip-tapping sound produced by those asking Google for help while the conversation is unfolding. In other words some have developed the habit of pulling the unknown, needed information from the web just in time to fill-in knowledge "gaps". I am quite sure that anyone who has read or heard about wearable-related experiences will be nodding in deja-vu-ed acknowledgment. Accessing on-line sources of information and interspersing the conversation with data gathered on the fly is a common experience for self-proclaimed cyborgs like Steve Mann or Thad Starner. In Chapter 4 of Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold quotes Starner saying how "... he and other cyborgs realized that their face-to-face conversations were punctuated by natural breaks that noncyborgs might not understand; each computer wearer in the conversation waited periodically while the other paused to take a note or look up something on-line in the middle of the dialogue …". In this case the term coined by Anne Galloway, staccato conversations, takes on quite a different meaning. Even more interestingly the same system that allows cyborgs to constantly tap The Network for needed info also enables them to actually record their life as it unfolds. The term Glog, short for Cyborg-log, has recently renewed attention due to its de-tuned, Weblog-like incarnations, now commonly referred to as Moblogs. Cyborg-ing has gone mainstream. The reason why all of the above is of interest to me is that, you guessed it, it also backs up some of my considerations about Interaction Anxiety. Even my Lo-fi, Google example, in fact, raises obvious considerations and questions. Over time it is likely that people will increasingly start to rely on outside sources of knowledge even for daily conversations, just like in the case of my colleagues. What if all of a sudden they found themselves deprived of their connected Linus blankets? With cyborgs considerations are a bit more clear-cut. Again in Chapter 4 of Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold quotes Thad Starner saying that he "... used the computer's memory to "hold his place" on certain thoughts ..." and that he recalls a time when not being able to access back that knowledge had created embarrassment in front of his class: "... I had not known the precise wording of the answer and had tried to retrieve my class notes on the topic ... I had expected to have the information in time to complete my sentence. Due to a complex series of mistaken keystrokes, I had failed so badly that I could not cover my error, much to everyone's amusement.". Howard then goes on describing how Starner used to demonstrate the power of connected intelligence by challenging reporters to ask him questions and relying on his wearable to access "the help instance", a collective of students who could act as "human nodes" to provide the desired answers or link him to them. "Have the information (just) in time…" "Not being able to access back knowledge..." "Due to a complex series of mistaken keystrokes…" Again this to me speaks about a simple fact. We might be moving past the “… how do you know that you know enough for now …" stage, to use Matt Jones’ own words. We are starting to rely on the fact that we won’t need to. Fluidity of access and interaction with information and people will be among the new drivers of anxiety in Connectedland. Posted by fabio sergio | 10:55 AM | permalink ............ January 08, 2003   Headmap Blog. I just found out that the great people over at Headmap have a Weblog. More great ideas about location aware devices, nomadics, psychogeography, community and spatial interfaces, future architecture. Bookmarking the oceans anyone?. Why not using radio collars to create maps highlighting submarine pathways? Psychogeography for dolphins. Posted by fabio sergio | 10:57 AM | permalink ............ January 07, 2003   Guarding 2003 Trends. Hello everyone, hope you all had pleasant days away from daily obligations and routines. I just came back from a few days off, spent savoring the best that the Alps have to offer. Snow. Snow. Snow. Valeria and I rented a minuscule one-room flat for the winter and have been happily retreating to it whenever possible since the beginning of December. Flowing through powdery, untracked, fresh snow has a soothing effect on the soul, I find. We both needed that. Re-tapping The Network for the new year's first Daily Dose I was greeted with a very nice surprise. I try not to indulge too much in self-referencing but this time I'll gladly make an exception to the rule. The Guardian Online has published its Survival Guide 2003: "...25 technologies and notions (that) hold most promise over the next year ... trends we'll be watching closely ..." Well, Interaction Anxiety happens to be among them. I am, to say the least, pleasantly flattered. I guess I now have a good reason to keep bringing the concept up. I'll just blame the Guardian for doing so. Great way to start the new year. ;) Posted by fabio sergio | 10:08 AM | permalink ............ Not bored yet? Visit freegorifero's weblog archives for more useless words.

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