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While killing time on my flight to the next event, I started thinking about what could O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo Berlin mean for the attendees. What I discovered at this NY event is that because they brought in a lot of out-of-town people they mingled a lot in the hallways, allowing everybody to casually meet […]
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Studying sociology and related social sciences has a strange impact on a person. I don’t believe it’s possible to study society and it’s inner working, rules and other related things, without changing your behaviour. You learn a few different rules along the way that helps you rationalize your decisions and your own worlds. What I’m […]
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After many flights, I’ve finally figured out what’s the smallest thing you can do to make your plane flights, much more enjoyable: get ear-plugs and sleep mask for the eyes This way you can easily grab a nap and totally ignoring the world around you. This is especially helpful when you just caught your red-eye […]
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I was looking at my Facebook feed today as a pattern suddenly occurred to me. From all the things people post to their account or change, almost the only one that consistently gets at least one comment from someone is when they change relationship status to a lower level. Going from married to single or […]
At DrupalCon, Leisa and her team introduced their efforts to redesign drupal.org page. They want to make it a community driven process where all the existing and potential users can give input at all the design stages. The latest step in this effort is her invitation to the community to send in wireframes and sketches […]
Winning Seedcamp top 20 is a great thing and even better press event, where all the Tech media will give you some spotlight and fractions of their traffic. It’s probably the biggest spike of visitors for next 3 months. Image by Ross Mayfield via Flickr Try to preperare for this event. Looking over list of […]
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Image via Wikipedia Going to conferences is exciting activity, where you get to spend a few days in a completely different environment, around peers listening to exciting people who you most often look up to. But most of trade-show conferences today are not organized like academic conferences where you get to take home a full […]
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I’ve been traveling across a few time zones recently and I’m suffering from a mild jet-lag as a consequence. This is a well known phenomena, when you’re changing time zones very quickly, with a help of an airplane. But how do you deal with all those strange time zones if you are in a middle […]
Image by hz536n via Flickr Gathering qualitative data, like interviews, presents an interesting alternative to classical online surveys. While in survey gathering we can setup an online environment, and leave it running for longer time without our strict supervision, in interview setting a real-time component is really important (unless you want to do a bit […]
Image by nattu via Flickr It’s now more than a day since Cuil, the latest hyped Google killer launched, and we can reflect on looking at how that went. According to TechCrunch and a number of other sources, it didn’t go too well, with their servers crashing a number of times. I’ve seen this also […]