Thinking About Feeling I recently learned something about affect from a counselor I met at a networking event.  Just to be clear, we were using the word “affect” to describe the signs of feeling in a person’s face (or body) rather than about the feeling itself. The counselor (let’s call her Jane) told me that a human [...]

There’s a really fascinating post over at TechCrunch today by Mary Hodder, someone who’s been working in ‘live search’ - what we now call the real-time web - for some time. The article’s definitely worth reading in its entirety, but I wanted to highlight some of the difficulties with real-time conversations that she mentions. A great [...]