Juliette/SF

Want to learn more about how to set up and manage a user research program within your organization? If so, you are humbly encouraged to vote for our panel for inclusion in next year’s SxSW: Developing Super Senses: Tools to Know Your Users. My partners in crime are Mark Trammell (Digg), Carla Borsoi (Ask.com), […]

Check out Jeremy Keith’s Social Buzzword Generator at socialbuzz.adactio.com.

Last night Jonathan Zittrain made a guest appearance on The Colbert Report to discuss his book The Future of the Internet. Favorite quote: “I’d like to see a way of saving the good chaos of the internet and peeling away the bad chaos that doesn’t just stomp on everything.”

Two months without a post! There have been many better things to do than blog, such as:

Traveling to hot places

Palm Springs and Joshua Tree
Orlando and Ocala, with a stop at Disney World

Participating in SF absurdity

Bring Your Own Bigwheel race in Potrero Hill
Watching dodgeball games
Checking out the robots and mayhem at Maker Faire

Just hanging around Potrero

Shooting […]

Mark Trammell interviewed Ice Cube today for the SF music blog Attacked by Jackets and I was there to record the moment. (There are more photos over at linoleumjet.com.)
An excerpt from the interview:
I was writing raps on the laptop at one point in my career, you know, earlier in my career. I think it’s always […]

House-sitting for a friend has been cast as somehow scandalous by our friends over at Valleywag. These seasoned journalists deserve props for not only being able to write rhyming headlines, but for also clearly understanding how to leverage post-structural theory to avoid libel. Their marvelously vague terminology (the “latest name linked” to someone) puts the […]

At Safari Books Online we have started a monthly Usability Friday — and you should, too!
The idea came from Steve Krug who outlined this model of running usability evaluations at last October’s Voices that Matter conference. He proposed that usability evaluation should be: regularly scheduled, attended in person rather than via webcast, and relatively fun […]

One of the highlights of LifeCamp was the discussion about theme words and what our theme word for 2008 would be. (Mine was “create.”) Chris Messina posted his to twitter, and thus a meme was born. See Chris’s recounting: Kicking off 2008 with a themeword
I wondered if there were any interesting patterns in the #themewords, […]

The inaugural LifeCamp was held in San Francisco Dec. 30 and 31. Tantek Çelik and I concocted and organized this new flavor of BarCamp to provide a venue for thinking thoughtfully, strategically, and collaboratively about life planning and decision-making.
LifeCamp was a two-day event, with the first day focused on reflection (what did you accomplish and […]