Reminiscing ICA 2010
Singapore was too hot for comfort and wireless Internet was not available in the conference rooms, but ICA was generally a great first experience. I got to meet many of […]
Marina Bay Sands
The hotel is finished, but other parts of the resort are still under construction. From afar, the building isn’t terribly impressive, but from a hundred meters away it is quite […]
“Teaching” Medical Marijuana
I have a short article in Nature Medicine about a school teaching people how to grow medical marijuana: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v16/n6/full/nm0610-621a.html
Questioning Facebook’s “Connected Profiles”: Is it laying groundwork for online dating?
Anyone who has used Facebook recently will know that Facebook’s new “security” feature is extremely annoying. The Connected Profiles feature gives you the choice of connecting completely, or not at […]
Arrested for Twtpoll! Man who did political survey through Twitter is charged with election law violation
A 43-year old man in South Korea was arrested by police on April 30 for alleged illegal election activity, Korean media sources report. (Being arrested in Korea does not mean […]
John Portman in Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta is dominated by the architecture of John Portman. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to check out all the beautiful hotel lobbies except for the Hyatt, which is where […]
Creating government in an lawless world
Henry Jenkin’s post on politics in Second Life reminded me of my own observations in Second Life which I’ve been meaning to write about. The interesting thing about Second life […]
Why people play social network games…
(cross-posted on Play As Life) Why do people play games? A lot of scholars and market researchers have looked at game motivations and have pretty much come up with similar […]
D. Yvette Wohn 