• Archive for March, 2007

    Approved.

    by  • March 29, 2007 • Housing • 4 Comments

    That’s right, ladies and gents, I’m approved!  Ron, my good buddy at Quicken Loans, took me from “I wonder if I could buy a house” to “You are approved to shop for homes under $LARGE SUM” in under 2 hours.  Whoa. According to my Google Spreadsheet, I’ve looked at 26 properties for rent, and...

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    Take that, positivists!

    by  • March 28, 2007 • Research, Social Computing • 5 Comments

    I’ve been struggling to articulate my frustrations with social software and community technologies, and I’ve finally found an article that helped me immensely. (Thank you, Sean Munson, for sending me the paper!) What’s bothered me is how anti-social so many examples of social software seem to be. They seemed to employ, as Paul Dourish...

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