Author Archives: Randal Moss

All encompassing Avatar

After reading this article in the WashingtonPost.com I began thinking of the extent and scope of the avatar and how it may evolve in the coming years.  I feel that in the coming years we will be using a single avatar to conduct the sum of our daily on line transactions.  I see that systems will begin to recognize our ...

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Great American Smoke Out

The American Cancer Society’s Great American Smoke Out is incorporating blogs to support the effort.  The GASO blogs can be found at www.quitnowblog.org and are written by university students who are trying to quit smoking.  The blogs chronicle their struggles with quitting and capture the real struggle of how difficult it is to break an addiction to tobacco.  I commend ...

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Narrowcasting Vs. Narrowliving

Over at Community Mobilization I talk about a the dangers of Narrowliving. Joi Ito had a post on Narrowcasting, which is the production and distribution of niche media to small highly targeted audiences. The technological advances in printing and on-line publishing is making this possible and I am very skeptical of what the future holds if the trend expands unchecked. ...

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MoSoSo Cellphone system

Over on Community Mobilization I talk abit about  Mososo, a cellphone application that is used is social networking analysis. I am a huge proponent of using user supplied data (cellphone call records in this case) to create group understanding and visualizations of mutually agreed upon interaction.  There are some great social network applications here that are yet to be explored ...

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