Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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July 18th, 2008 · Comments

Just to whet your appetite, here are some posts I’ll be writing in the next week:

The new look of Facebook profiles
10 worthwhile Twitter bots
Thank you letters
Please don’t stalk me (geosocial networking)

If you have any thoughts or questions about these topics that you’d like to see addressed, just leave a comment and I’ll do my best [...]

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Internet Week NY Wrap-Up (in photos)

June 9th, 2008 · Comments

What a whirlwind week! Since last Tuesday I have met a phenomenal group of people, partied my butt off and talked ’til I was blue in the face. And while Internet Week New York isn’t technically over until the Webby Awards tomorrow night, it is definitely over for me. I’m pooped!
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NY Tech Meetup — June 2008

June 4th, 2008 · Comments

Internet Week New York edition

Last night was the monthly NY Tech Meetup at IAC. Instead of the typical 5-minute presentations by new start-ups getting their feet wet, this month was a rather impressive line-up of successful Internet companies operating in New York.
As always, it was a sold-out room of 400+ developers, designers, entrepreneurs, writers, business [...]

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Tweetup Goodness - 5/27/2008

May 28th, 2008 · Comments

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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IA Summit 2008 Closing Plenary: “Linkosophy” by Andrew Hinton

May 12th, 2008 · Comments

Much, much, MUCH overdue is the recap of Andrew Hinton’s closing plenary titled “Linkosophy” at this year’s IA Summit.
Andrew’s talk, equal parts intellectualism and practicality, was just what our field has been hungry for. Andrew is a uniter, not a divider, and I greatly appreciated the plain, honest tone he used when he told our [...]

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