Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries from May 2008

Social Feed Aggregators

May 30th, 2008 · 8 comments so far

There are hundreds, probably thousands, of powerful social networking platforms out there, with new ones launching every week. Send 140-character messages with Twitter. Save links with del.icio.us. Promote content with Digg. Share music with Last.fm. It’s endless.
Lifestreaming — recording your daily activities through text, links, photos, music and video — is quickly becoming the [...]

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Tweetup Goodness - 5/27/2008

May 28th, 2008 · 5 comments so far

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Tweetup at d.b.a. last night in the East Village. The weather was tentative, but more than 20 people showed. We snagged a great table in the corner of the patio — which is airy, but covered — and sipped on Sixpoint Brownstone, Chimay and Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal [...]

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Group Video Chat: A Usability Evaluation

May 23rd, 2008 · 2 comments so far

Back in January when I started this whole “getting to know the community” thing, I met a couple guys named @matto and @snook, a.k.a. Matthew Oliphant and Jonathan Snook respectively. Matthew had been following me based on David Armano’s recommendation, and I had followed him back because, well, I basically didn’t know anybody on Twitter. [...]

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The Experience of Being a Woman

May 21st, 2008 · 6 comments so far

I have always wanted to be the woman who doesn’t feel the need to talk about women’s issues.
I have always wanted to be the woman in business whom people describe as an astute leader and force to be reckoned with without ever being called a “woman in business.”
I have always wanted to be the woman [...]

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Advergirl gives props to Pleasure and Pain

May 20th, 2008 · 1 comment so far

Big thanks to Leigh Householder for including this blog on her top picks over at Advergirl.
I am truly honored to be included in a list of such heavyweights — blogs that are among my favorites and whose authors I admire.
I’ll keep delivering the goods, but please don’t hesitate to let me know what you’d like [...]

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