Joe McCarthy
About: I'm interested in how we can bring the richness of our digital representations of ourselves - e.g., through weblogs and [other] social media - into the physical spaces we share with others, so that real world communities can better enjoy the benefits of virtual communities.
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Blog Posts
Data Exhaust from Foo Camp 2008
--The term data exhaust was one of several additions to my vocabulary throughout FOO Camp 2008 (the annual “Friends Of O’Reilly” campout and unconfer...
Richie Hazlewood joins Strands Labs Seattle for the summer
--Richie Hazlewood arrived a few weeks ago from the School of Informatics at Indiana University to work with us on our next generation proactive disp...
The Indigo Girls' Zoo Tunes Concert
--The Indigo Girls gave a concert Sunday night at Woodland Park Zoo's Zoo Tunes 2008 Concert Series that was, note for note, the finest music I&...
Snoop: An Investigation into Possessions, Perceptions, Projections and Personalities
--Sam Gosling's new book - Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You - blends an engaging and accessible overview of some of the key concepts and re...
Thingamajiggr II: Attentionality, Surreality and Sexuality
--I attended Thingamajiggr, "a party celebrating the innovative Pacific Northwest tech community", last night. The party - organized by Wag...
New Faces at Strands Labs Seattle
--Yogi and I have recently been joined by some wonderful new people at Strands Labs Seattle, and our new office space has some new surfaces that make...
UbiComp 2008 Workshops
--We are happy to announce 9 workshops that will be held at UbiComp 2008, the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, in Seoul, South...
The Challenges of Location-Based Social Networking
--Meetro, the location-aware instant messaging application - and company - has failed (or as my entrepreneur friends often like to say in such cases,...
What Would Your Toaster Say to Your TV?
--The recent announcement of the Sprint / Clearwire WiMax venture generated a great deal of excitement in many quarters. In an Advertising Age articl...
KT Tunstall @ The Moore, Seattle (a concert review)
--KT Tunstall and her band of mostly unplugged musicians gave an energetic performance at The Moore Theatre in Seattle last night. The music was dras...
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Comments
Thanks. I probably should be more interested in the "why" than I am... normally it's one of my first questions! ;-)
Right now, I seem to be more focused on "what" as in "what are the impacts on existing structures" -- primarily political institutions and news media. Of course, that means I'm also very interested in economic impacts!
Finally, I'm mulling over this idea that "democracy" means "everyone should contribute equally" or "everyone's contribution is equal". This seems false. To me "democracy" means "everyone has the chance to contribute" --but not that all contributions have equal merit or that a system has "failed" if everyone does not chose to participate.
