My Twitter this week: 2010-03-22

  • At a nice chilled steakhouse with @nickycast – not a sxsw badge in sight! (@ Ranch 616 w/ 11 others) http://4sq.com/3VZ7mU #
  • Sorry, struggling with uploading the 1.4GB, 1 hour video of the @dhh talk #youarentdoneyet. Will try again tomorrow. #
  • BBC's Digital Revolution, a project on the Canadian head tax & Take Action Games. @stitchmedia @abyork @zorca @dannyzee #iadoc #
  • Ultimately, documentaries are still one perspective. The process of curation & artistic direction opposes democratic process. #iadoc #
  • Interactive documentaries can help the audience develop their own perspective, rather than expose existing perspectives. #iadoc #
  • Consider your audience in terms of modern demographics. eg. Where do they live? means online as well as offline. #iadoc #
  • Interactive doumentaries succeed by modeling timeless collaborative stories: the campfire, social activism memes, the whisper game #iadoc #
  • We're not trying to create a new formula. We're listening to what people want & how they want to interact. @stitchmedia #iadoc #
  • Keyword matching hooror story: Google Adsense campaign backfired by suggesting "buy coffins" on searches for Colorado shooting. #contentme #
  • Relevant recommendations increased dwell time by 40% for a music site by The Filter. #contentme #
  • Human fallacies in rating: people having bad days tend to go on negative rating sprees. #contentme #
  • Privacy issue: if you rated Jerry Maguire as 4 stars, people will know you're not a good human. #contentme #
  • Hunch finds random correlations: conservatives prefer iceberg lettuce, liberals prefer arugula. This has privacy implications. #contentme #
  • Location makes recommendations more relevant by limiting the horizon, avoiding the self-propagating leaderboard problem. #contentme #
  • @lizgannes What are the panels thoughts on how people have expressed they WANT to discover? #contentme #
  • AR recommendation services will see everything you see. Opt-in described as privacy solution. I think barely a starting point. #contentme #
  • Lifestages have different values & priorities. Genders have search/browse bias. Is recommendation going back to demographics? #contentme #
  • Accurate inference from limited data is possible. Combining datasets can improve accuracy geometrically. #contentme #
  • The Long Tail is statistically not interesting – the average song gets downloaded 0 times. #contentme #
  • Seeing a lot more Brits in panels this year. Hmm. Are Brits more on the pulse, or am I more tuned to the Brit pulse? #sxsw #
  • Can someone please PLEASE record #garyvee? I'm hustling so won't be there but would love if you could share the Crush It energy! #
  • Can someone please PLEASE record #garyvaynerchuk? I'm hustling so won't be there but would love if you could share the Crush It energy! #
  • Agencies spend 80% of their time on client politics, not creativity. #refreshgary #
  • @pepdek I said please 4 times! I caught the questions though
    & will share. Found this vid too http://j.mp/an4GE8 #refreshgary in reply to pepdek #
  • In the overflow room for the overflow room at the @ev keynote at #sxsw. #
  • When you start a business, you're assumptions are wrong. You need to experiment to evolve. @ev #mondaykeynote #leanstartup #
  • The benefits of playing nice & being open: there's tremendous value in 50m tweets a day. Partners get the most relevant to users #evwilliams #
  • Haque is alienating the crowd by monopolizing the floor. RT malbonster 3 people immediately next to me are asleep… just saying #evwilliams #
  • The compelling thing about Twitter isn't as yet another comms channels, it's that it helps businesses improve. #mondaykeynote #evwilliams #
  • @ev looks mad at @umairh and has started talking about how people not adding value should die. #ev #mondaykeynote #
  • @malbonster @saulpims @abc3d I just tried chatroullette. Everyone else thinks this is boring too & are disconnecting #sxsw #ev #evwilliams #
  • Been looking forward to the @davegray visual note takin Worksop. Definitely the brain jumpstart I need after the keynote. Room 9. #viznote #
  • Handing out notebooks with note taking tips. Looks like this'll be the most interactive panel yet. #viznotes #visualnotetaking #
  • @ursonate I think they'll have spare notebooks after the panel. #visualnotetaking #viznotes in reply to ursonate #
  • Focus on what resonates with you. Don't try to get everything. #viznotes #
  • Visual notes can be linear – start at the top left if that's how your brain works. #viznotes #
  • 200 people just learned to draw people: start with the body, then legs then arms. Noses aim the head. #viznotes http://yfrog.com/jy8l6j #
  • Drawing expression on faces: all emotions can be expressed with just the mouth shape and eyebrow direction. #viznotes #
  • Use grids when it's important to track different types of info. Like action items – use headers, who, what, when. #viznotes #
  • @davegray #viznotes #visualnotetaking the session desc. says you'll tell us how this improves memory and capture?! /rt @littlestgator #
  • Create your own grammar and visual vocabulary. Different bullets and frames can have specific meaning. #viznotes #
  • Need help with time-management? Check out Bill Westerman's sketchbook: http://bit.ly/crThBx #viznotes #gtd /via @stephanieklein #
  • @mjloredo how's your notebook looking? #viznotes in reply to mjloredo #
  • My visual notes. Only a few – was busy tweeting! #viznotes http://yfrog.com/1ge9lj http://yfrog.com/i31ltj http://yfrog.com/jahgjvj #
  • @valdiskrebs needs a mini display to VGA in room 9! #
  • Hes got one in the Beacon lounge. Not room 9. Sorry #
  • What a surprise! @valdiskrebs is doing an impromptu talk on network visualisation in the beacon lounge! #sxsw #
  • Network maps can create greater understanding of events with public data. Eg. 911 & madoff @valdiskrebs #sxsw http://yfrog.com/ev69620956j #
  • Indirect quid pro quo demonstrating & identifying possibly unethical use of political influence. @valdiskrebs #sxsw http://yfrog.com/al8elj #
  • @alicenwondrlnd cheers! Ironically I was using words to describe pictures at #viznotes. in reply to alicenwondrlnd #
  • Visualisations replac thousands of pages of reports, allowing faster informed decisions. @caseorganic #
  • Mapping is a form of measurement. #sxsw #
  • @garyvee come to maxs wine dive. Learn the real way to startup! #leanstartup #
  • I rocked the hotseat at #leanstartup smackdowm 2!! #
  • @nickycast @davegray come by #leanstartup smackdown. Meet @ericries who's speaking at Leancamp London. #
  • @vidluther thanks for the validation! @davemcclure had nothin' on me. #leanstartup in reply to vidluther #
  • #Leanstartup Londoners – is now a good time to plug http://leanca.mp? @ericries vs @dhh #
  • Awesome night! I've recorded the whole thing. Will post link in a few days so watch this space. #leanstartup pls rt. #
  • @scott_allison was a pleasure! Very happy to hear of your project to help businesses prioritise, especially as it's from the UK! in reply to scott_allison #
  • @davemcclure speaking at http://leanca.mp? Spoke to him at #leanstartup smackdown and it looks like a possibility. Cheers Dave! #
  • For the #designthinking strong and worthy, @nickycast speaking in Ballroom B at 930 this morning. #sxsw #
  • Design vs Analytic Thinking – Exploring vs Reducing – Transformative vs Incremental #dtpi #
  • Nice. Kevin Kearney went on a bit of rant against process for process sake, and pithy arguments against research. #dtpi #
  • Design Thinking is a way to get early buy-in, which saves good products. #dtpi #
  • There's a challenge – how do you introduce Design Thinking to 50,000 people at SAP? Okay, for that, you need a process! #dtpi #
  • Allies were critical. Visualisations and slogans were helpful in articulating the message to find them. #dtpi #
  • A measure of design is the growth it enables. @nickycast #dtpi #
  • Design process can be applied beyond product or service design. It can even be applied to designing business models. @nickycast #dtpi #
  • Design Thinking is generative. It's another tool to be used strategically. @nickycast #dtpi #
  • Either silo things off, or roll-out a big Design Thinking transformation. No other way for big companies. Look at Xbox. @kkearney #dtpi #
  • @kkearney expressing frustration at good projects getting shut down at the C- level or board level. #dtpi #
  • Wondering if @carolafthompson comment about the end of Big D designers referred to @kkearney. Seems he takes a lone champion approach. #dtpi #
  • Design has never been responsible for innovation. – Don Norman @nickycast challenges: design process exposes unmet needs. #dtpi #
  • Did @kkearney just say that if you're just a web or mobile designer, you're not an innovator? #dtpi #
  • Innovation can come from changing the context of technology. Design Thinking helps you learn about the market to do this. @nickycast #dtpi #
  • If one person owns Design Thinking, you're not applying Design Thinking. #dtpi #
  • If you're not failing, you're not innovating. Innovation requires experimentation. @nickycast #dtpi #
  • Design Thinkers get a bad wrap for experimenting. They are pursuing business goals, but seen as pursuing aesthetic values. #dtpi #
  • We saw the 1st bubble. We can now make the stuff we talked about in 1998. #dtpi #
  • When innovation fails, organisations need to bank it. Failure could be a matter of timing. @nickycast #dtpi #
  • When innovating in silos, parallel projects build continuity through failures. @jimneiters #dtpi #
  • Speaking to @carolafthompson: At SAP, the Design Thinking process disappeared once other initiatives fell in line with Design Thinking #dtpi #
  • Cities are already platforms. They are read from and written to. #cityisaplatform #
  • For those new to this, actuators are devices that do something like motors or lights. Sensors are devices that detect. #cityisaplatform #
  • Planting rfid tags in jugs shows us the flow of packaging, like taking a mercury pill and then getting X-rayed. #cityisaplatform #
  • Open data: Don't ask governments to sign up. Ask citizens to sign up their governments. #cityisaplatform #
  • Signs in public spaces prohibiting behaviour (No dogs, no ball games, no bikes) are signs of bad design. #cityisaplatform #
  • @nothingGrinder Looking forward to it. In the meantime, please look at http://leanca.mp and help spread the word. in reply to nothingGrinder #
  • Whuffie-like currencies, earned from civic service, create power-brokering. Can this be exploited by the corrupt? #cityisaplatform #
  • Is now a good time to mention the backlash to Spotify ads? http://jonathanfromspotifyruinedyourplaylist.com/ #tuesdaykeynote #
  • #dtpi Exactly the reason I took issue w/LinkedIn conversation asking for key "Design Thinkers" re: http://twurl.nl/0a1lyt /rt @rotkapchen #
  • Versioning used instead of privileges. Example of @dhh advice: do less & stop at good enough. #leanstartup #tuesdaykeynote #spotify #
  • @alexpach A lot of redundancy at SXSW: drink drink drink drink…. in reply to alexpach #
  • Be kind to your critics. #brucesterling #
  • Does anyone know what time Casio Kids go on tonight? #SXSW #mtclosingparty #closingparty #
  • Last day in Austin. If you're around, stop by. /cc @alexpach @davegray (@ Jo's w/ 7 others) http://4sq.com/5fDcln #
  • Sampling the impressive martini and margarita list with @nickycast. (@ Manuel's Downtown) http://4sq.com/8V3rdy #
  • @cmccann7 @alexpach We're at Miguel's so roll in after. Good cocktails! What gigs you up for? Cracker, my fave band, is playing at 1am. #
  • @cmccann7 @alexpach big line at the speakeasy so joining the madness on 6th. This is not like Interactive! Let me know where's next… in reply to cmccann7 #
  • I'm very annoyed with Meetup.com. They erroneously deleted the Lean Startup London Simulcast group, and are being very unhelpful about it. #
  • @ejwc Time for @serverbeach? Those guys built Youtube, dontchaknow. in reply to ejwc #
  • Don't design for the average in your customer segment. Design around its extremes and the middle will work itself out. #objectified #
  • @rbeyeler Thanks, have you seen part 2? I explain the difference between Rework & Getting Real in more detail. http://is.gd/aP7ko in reply to rbeyeler #
  • @rickwebb checked in for night #9 at #sxsw? No, it's a fake @rickwebb using subservient chicken tech. You heard it here 1st. #
  • @rohdesign It's one of my favourite t-shirts! I'll represent Milwaukee with honour. Thanks for the party – you're a great host. in reply to rohdesign #
  • @davegray @michellemilla Looking forward to having you at Leancamp. How about a talk on understanding problems faster with visual thinking? in reply to michellemilla #
  • Startup Lessons Learned Conference – register here for the London simulcast: http://is.gd/aRHXh #leanstartup Please RT! #

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