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Archive for July, 2009

Affect Redux

Jul 13

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 [...]

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Real-time search, noisiness and influence

Jul 1

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 [...]

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