tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71171339041942386122024-03-05T07:57:47.599-06:00EFMCGIII's BlogCS 855-Socio-Technical FuturingErv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-52697894616706101262019-07-29T20:21:00.001-05:002019-07-29T20:21:55.625-05:00<div abp="1770">
Hello to those who still view my blog. I have been away for a long while and since have progressed into a different arena. My interest in in Holographic Weather Analysis and Prediction hasn't waned, it has just been put aside for the time being (which could be a while). I had forgotten about this blog page since I have finished with school (it was actually a class project). I happened to be going through my Lap-top getting ready to transition to a newer system, came across this and began reminiscing. I may re-start my blog, but I am not exactly sure what to talk about. Although holography has advanced at a great rate I still feel that the ability to tie it into weather analysis and forecasting has not quite come to the point where the two can merge or ever will. So, I have put it on hold on my part and hopefully technology will catch up and we will see this come to fruition. Who knows, the weather forecasting arena is changing rapidly and may surpass what I had envisioned to move towards. Meanwhile I'll just dabble with my forecasting and continue my work in the computer system management area in which I currently work.</div>
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If you still look at these blogs from my earlier studies thank you.</div>
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I will check back once in a while since I now know that it is still active to see if there are any comments.</div>
Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-17164306714190196562012-08-31T12:00:00.000-05:002012-09-21T00:17:54.934-05:00Technology's Promise: Transition to a Sustainble Wold - Global Warming<br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">My analysis on a forecast from the text Technology’s Promise, is
that what we see here is I believe a Social enigma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scientists want to do the right thing but politically
they are being strangled by the threat of losing funding by going against a
politically charged issue. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This being a
highly charged debate is something that can only be settled by removing the monetary
gains pursued by some individuals and letting scientists proceed with studies using new technological advancements </span><span style="color: #222222;">that are not biased or socially coerced. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Global Warming – caused by the human producing an increase of CO<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span> into the atmosphere.<sub><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></sub><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">This term has always
bothered me. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being associated with meteorology for over 20
years I am strongly against this term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
agree that there is climate change it is a cycle that the earth goes through and
not really influenced directly by mankind inducing CO<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span> into <span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
atmosphere. I do however agree that mankind does cause pollution and we need to
do something about it, but not global warming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT’s Department of Meteorology
states the following:</div>
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<b><i>“Carbon dioxide has little to do with global warming</i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span>this is certainly not the hottest period in
Earth's history<br />
B) global warming has essentially nothing to do with carbon dioxide<br />
C) the global warming/CO2 charts show that warming occurs <i>first</i> and
causes increased atmospheric carbon dioxide, the opposite of what we're told<br />
D) 99% of all carbon dioxide is caused by decaying plants and ocean activity<br />
E) human activity has pretty much no influence on global temperatures<br />
F) cooler air, not warmer, causes increased floods and hurricanes<br />
G) the ice caps are growing and shrinking like they always have, and the ozone
layer is just fine<br />
H) "Big Oil" is making a fortune from global warming hysteria, they
love it<br />
I) There were only about 1000 people on the IPCC panel, and many were lobbyists
and politicians, not scientists”</div>
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The following video also gives a clearer picture of how
politics played into the coining of the phrase Global Warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I hope that around 2014 the nations will
step back and take a better look at what is really happening around them and
not listen to politicians and media which are trying to use this scare tactic to
line their pockets.</div>
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5576670191369613647#" target="_blank">The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007)</a>Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-58732343015356016272012-08-30T17:33:00.003-05:002012-09-14T09:06:48.546-05:00A forecast or prediction from the futurists and two forces that I believe will affect its success.Still playing catch up on my posts.<br />
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<b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Forecast #6:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
Lunar-based solar power production was pioneered by David Criswell in 1985 as a
way to meet future energy demands. The debate stands as to which is better, Lunar
Based Solar power (LSPS) or Solar Power Satellite (SPS) pioneered by Peter
Glaser in 1968 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>both of which energy can
be more dependably and inexpensively gathered in Space than on Earth. This
clean energy source is capable of delivering the 20 trillion watts of power a
year that the Earth’s predicted 10 billion people will require by mid-century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Two
forces that could hinder the production of either of these innovations is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Space Environmental issues</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There is now a lot of
space junk in orbit around the earth and adding more Satellites for the SPS
system. We do not need to add to this</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The other force would be
</span><span class="mw-headline"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">financial
feasibility</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The cost of producing a
lunar based system would be a hindrance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1995 predicted costs came to about $1,098.00
per kW It will have most likely tripled in today’s cost. The materials,
manpower and transportation costs in 1996 figures would be in the Billions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Figure </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">2</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> : Lunar Base Solar Production System</span></div>
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Criswell’s <span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Solar Power via the Moon: 2002</span></div>
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G<span class="mw-headline"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">.L.
Kulcinski, Nov 26, 2001, Lecture 35 Lunar Solar Power Station</span></span></div>
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Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-72059123031789071142012-08-24T10:07:00.000-05:002012-09-20T22:43:47.442-05:00Web Video & Global InnovationComing from a little behind in posting assignments :0) this TED talk is given by Chris Anderson on How web video powers global innovation.
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Chris's very interesting talk is about how the web has created what he calls "Crowd Accelerated Innovation"
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Take a look and see what you think.<br />
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This is a good example of how the forces of social media and technological innovation can be put to use as a somewhat educational venue. Good in some aspects a little strange in others.<br />
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I have always envisioned combining the two sciences Holography and Meteorology. The first picture in the video is of an SDHS system or Satellite Data Handling System. A system I helped pioneer 20 years ago for the DoD's Air Weather Service.<br />
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With the help of Iron Man and a little photoshop work, this 30 sec video will,<em> </em>I hope, show you my vision of future weather analysis using holographic projection - Holographic Weather Analysis and Prediction system (HWAPs). How weather analysis and holographics have progressed and where I believe we could be in the future giving Meteorologists more information to provide more precise forecasts and longer lead times for severe weather warning. <br />
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Make your own <a href="http://animoto.com/">photo slideshow</a> at Animoto.Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-81273732609788752122012-08-17T16:35:00.001-05:002012-08-17T17:09:40.790-05:00New Agora<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The New Agora paper states that
there are seven modules to the architecture of SDDP which are comprised of 31
component constraints as stated in </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Schreibman
and Christakis’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New Agora: New Geometry of Languaging <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and New Technology of Democracy: </span><span style="color: #9b0000; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">*</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The Structured Design Dialogue Process:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(ISM), (3) DELPHI, (4) OPtions Field, (5)</span></div>
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Eelemental observations; (3) Problématique,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">(3) Influence tree-pattern, (4)
OPtions field pattern, (5) OPtions</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">profile/scenario pattern, (6)
Superposition pattern, and (7) Action plan</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">pattern (Years 1970-1980);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(1) Discovery, (2) Designing, and (3) Action</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">(Years 1989-2001;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">4. <b>3 Key Role Responsibilities</b>:
(1) Context—Inquiry Design Team, (2)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Content— Stakeholders/Designers, and
(3) Process—Facilitation Team</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">(Years 1982-2002);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">5. <b>4 Stages of Interactive
Inquiry</b>: (1) Definition or Anticipation, (2) Design</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">of Alternatives, (3) Decision, and
(4) Action Planning (Years 1989-1995);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">6. <b>Collaborative Software and
Facility </b>(Years 1981-1995); </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">7. <b>6 Dialogue Laws</b>: (1)
Requisite Variety )Ashby), (2) Parsimony (Miller),</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">(3) Saliency (Boulding), (4) Meaning
and Wisdom (Peirce, (5) </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Authenticity and Autonomy
(Tsivacou), and (6) Evolutionary Learning </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">(Dye) (Years
2001-2003).</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This
architecture is built around the basis of the following:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4 Axioms
to Assure Sound Foundations for the Science:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">COMPLEXITY:
We live in a world that is very complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most observers are confused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Social systems design issues are strongly interconnected (Warfield).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">PARSIMONY:
Human cognition & attention is limited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Human beings are usually overloaded in group design meetings leading to
bad designs (Simon).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">SALIENCY:
The field of options in designing social systems is multidimensional. Salient
synthesis is difficult (Boulding).</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ENGAGEMENT:
Disregarding the participation of the stakeholders in designing social systems
is unethical, and the designs are bound to fail (Ozbekhan).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">However
Stakeholders tend to try and solve a problem before its complexity is fully
understood, but how complex is complex?</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The Situational Complexity Index is defined as</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>DK (N-7) / R (R-1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>where D =
(V-5) / (N-5)</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">N = </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Number of total observations by all observers</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">R = </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Number of observations INCLUDED IN THE PROBLEMATIQUE (Influence Map)</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">V = </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Number of observations with 1 or more votes</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">K = </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Number of DISTINCT links among observations </span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">D = </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Divergence or “spread think” of importance votes</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">_________________________________</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">7
is the “Miller number” (7 ± 2) “which is the l</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">imited individual capacity for short-term processing
of information”<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
</span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">and 5 is the
“Warfield<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spread think number”</span></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">6 Methods
to Build Consensus :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Nominal
Group Technique</span></div>
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Structural Modeling</span></div>
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Field</span></div>
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Profile</span></div>
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Analysis </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">7 Patterns
of Graphic Language:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Elemental
Observation</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Problematique
(A mess)</span></i></div>
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Tree (Root Cause Map)</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Options
Field</span></div>
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Profile / Scenario </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Superposition
Pattern</span></div>
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Plan Pattern </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4 Stages
of Interactive Inquiry:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Definition
or Anticipation</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Design
of Alternatives</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Decision
</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Action
Planning </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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7 Laws of Effective
Dialogue</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Requisite Variety (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ashby</span>)</div>
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</span></span></span>Requisite Parsimony (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Miller, Warfield</span>)</div>
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</span></span></span>Requisite Meaning & Wisdom (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Peirce</span>)</div>
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</span></span></span>Requisite Authenticity & Autonomy (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tsivacou</span>)</div>
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</span></span></span>Requisite Evolutionary Learning (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dye</span>)</div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Schreibman and Christakis show 6 Laws of
Dialogue but</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Christakis added a 7<sup>th</sup> law in
his presentation on Harnessing Collective Wisdom.</span></div>
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My area of
interest or innovation is in combining meteorology and holographic projection
or Holographic Weather Analysis and Prediction system (HWAPs) as I call it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using the SDDP method I am considering on
using the Delphi approach in building my consensus, with an options/scenario
pattern of graphic language; definition and anticipation type inquiry and the
requisite evolutionary learning. <br />
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New Agora Paper<br />
<a href="http://www.harnessingcollectivewisdom.com/pdf/newagora.pdf">http://www.harnessingcollectivewisdom.com/pdf/newagora.pdf</a></div>
Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-63060713033143608732012-08-14T09:20:00.000-05:002012-08-14T09:20:20.184-05:00Delphi and NGT research modelsWe were asked to describe the characteristics and differences between the NGT and Delphi models of research. This is my take on the differences, which model I would use and why.
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The Classical Delphi model uses the anonymity of the participants allowing them to freely express their opinions without undue social pressures of having to conform to others in the group with decisions bases on merit, rather than who proposes the idea. Whereas, the NGT method limits participants the opportunity to comment on issues that were not covered in surveys and uses focus groups to encourage participants with one or two members that hold strong opinions influencing others and stifling ideas and evaluating factors identified by learners as positive and negative points.
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From the readings the NGT method is mainly directed towards the medical field evaluating medical courses. The Delphi method, working with qualitative and quantitative methods seems to be more suited to Information System (IS) research because of its fluidity in its discipline and its flexibility when knowledge about a task is limited.
As for which method I would use from what I have read and think understand, the use of a modified Delphi in a closed or open collaboration would depend on the type of research one wants to accomplish. It seems that a closed collaboration would lead to a specific outcome for a specific study whereas an open collaboration would be used as sort of a brainstorming study to provide a generalized idea or direction in which to proceed.
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<br />
A Modified Delphi Approach to a New Card Sorting Methodology <a href="http://usabilityprofessionals.org/upa_publications/jus/2008november/JUS_Paul_Nov2008.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://usabilityprofessionals.org/upa_publications/jus/2008november/JUS_Paul_Nov2008.pdf</a><a href="http://usabilityprofessionals.org/upa_publications/jus/2008november/JUS_Paul_Nov2008.pdf"></a>Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-44908559673816339752012-07-09T13:21:00.000-05:002012-07-09T13:21:18.854-05:00It has been a while but it looks like I will back online.
Drop by from time to time and see what I will be doing in the next couple of months. It maybe interesting to a few of you, if you are interested in Socio-Technical Futuring, holographic projection and meteorology.Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-91183022525224510542011-02-24T12:37:00.004-06:002012-09-14T08:57:05.638-05:00Privacy preserving cryptographic protocolsThis weeks read was about privacy preserving cryptographic protocols.<br />
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The common definition of privacy in the cryptographic community limits the information that is leaked by the distributed computation to be the information that can be learned from the designated output of the computation (Benny Pinkas, HP Labs).<br />
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This chapter discusses differing protocol frameworks used to achieve this privacy. In Acquisti el al’s:Digital Privacy their definition is a computational function of outputs that are distributed among different participants during online collaboration.<br />
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The chapter notes a couple of platforms are in place today that have the goal to provide a privacy-preserving protocol for any possible function:<br />
Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC)<br />
Secure Function Evaluation (SFE)<br />
and goes on to say that it may seem like an impossible task, but general results show that any function that is computable in polynomial time can be computed with polynomial communication.<br />
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The chapter goes on to discuss how privacy preserving cryptographic protocols can be applied to differing situations:<br />
Database querying<br />
Distributed voting<br />
Bidding and auctions<br />
Data mining<br />
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The Data mining or data warehousing kind of caught my attention because I had to write a white paper on it when it first appeared on the IT table. It was suppose to be the way of the future for storing and locating data quickly and easily. At that time privacy issues were not looked at closely as systems were not as integrated as they are today. Data mining and warehousing fell into the privacy conundrum with the advancements in technology and the widely integrated system structure in place today. It is interesting to see how this is handled by SMC and SFE to provide privacy security. <br />
A couple of approaches were mentioned: Sanitizing Data before making it available and the use of technologies mentioned in the chapter, benchmarking and forecasting, contract negotiations, and rational selfish participants along with the introduction by Lindel-Pinkas method where two parties build a decision tree without either party learning anything about the other.Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-51900513642726876522011-02-21T11:33:00.006-06:002012-09-14T08:50:17.721-05:00EM835 Weekly Reading This week from Acquisti et al, Digital PrivacyUncircumventable Enforcement of privacy via cryptographic Obfuscation<br />
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What is it<br />
Obfuscation, in general, describes a practice that is used to intentionally make something more difficult to understand. In a programming context, it means to make code harder to understand or read, generally for privacy or security purposes. A tool called an obfuscatoris sometimes used to convert a straight-forward program into one that works the same way but is much harder to understand.<br />
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Basically it is hiding information in plain sight inside computer code or digital data<br />
(or as Bruce Lee might say)The art of hiding without hiding<br />
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Brief History<br />
1976 –Diffieand Hellman produced paper on public key cryptology introducing the first public known public key cryptosystem<br />
Gates open letter to hobbyists leads to the first use of obfuscation for copy protection and digital rights management<br />
1986 –Malware’s use of obfuscation is introduced:<br />
Viral Legerdemain -first piece of malware that attempted to conceal its existence<br />
Cascade virus -first piece of malware to use encryption to scramble its contents<br />
Oligomorphism1990 -could change static decryptors<br />
Polymorphism1991 -a method of radically changing how malware conceals itself,<br />
The Mutation Engine 1992 -first ever polymorphic toolkit to enabled neophyte virus<br />
programmers to link their code to an MtE-generated polymorphic object and extend a<br />
normal non-obfuscated virus into a highly polymorphic one<br />
2001 –Study of cryptic obfuscation began:<br />
Virtual black box security which guarantees no other feasible way to access stored passwords<br />
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Applications<br />
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Security in the beginning was weak and easily broken then came Cryptographic Obfuscation<br />
which was a Stronger security; better than DRM<br />
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Digital Rights Management<br />
Most commonly used for protecting data from unauthorized usage but has dismal track<br />
record<br />
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Recreational use - International Obfuscated C Code Contests<br />
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<em>Obfuscation to Digital Privacy</em>Usages ;<br />
Protecting Database privacy via Digital Rights Management (DRM), but is weak, easily<br />
broken, okay for blocking a casual hacker<br />
Can introduce serious security vulnerabilities<br />
Cryptographic obfuscation<br />
Providing technological support<br />
As a Virtual Black Box<br />
Real strength –guarantees no other feasible way to access a stored password<br />
But still can be reversed engineered<br />
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<em>Obfuscation for Access Control</em><br />
Provides Point Function Obfuscation: a function that produces a special output from a single<br />
input which may be thought of as a key or password<br />
ex: Password hashing procedure -UNIX<br />
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<em>Obfuscation for Group Privacy</em>Privacy be enforced by allowing a record to be retrievable only if user can name it precisely<br />
Group Privacy Policy has tradeoffs between Privacy and Utility<br />
More research needed to look into using Heuristic methods to improve efficiencyErv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-87808523435874135342011-02-02T12:58:00.003-06:002012-09-14T08:49:32.819-05:00EM835 reading Beautiful Security - Chapter 6I had an interesting read this week in the book Beautiful Security by Andy Oram and John Viega. The chapter I had to read and discuss was on Securing Online Advertising. It bought out some interesting and frightful information.<br />
Victims<br />
Users are the most direct for online advertising attacks with Malvertisements, malware, and exploit-laden banner ads.<br />
Ex. Free Ringtones, or quizzes like, Do you know whose lips these are? These seem harmless, but can hold malware that can be installed onto your computer to collect personal information.<br />
Advertisers themselves are victims by being overcharged by ad networks. Then using them as a doorway to your computer as they instill different cost rate schemes to the advertisers like:<br />
CPM – Cost Per Thousand Impressions<br />
CPC – Cost Per Click<br />
CPA – Cost per Action<br />
What can be done to stop this?<br />
· Be aware of what you are about to click on. Ads that offer something too good to be true are great hiding places for malware insertion programs.<br />
· Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and European Consumer Commissioner have been tracking down, uncovering, and handing out fines to those who create and use this form of advertising.Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-87953564592212740562010-10-09T09:15:00.002-05:002010-10-09T09:24:43.760-05:00AbsenceAgain sorry for the down time, have been busy with school work. Hope to have something going again by introducing my doctorate works.Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-19342275192250014732010-06-08T17:17:00.001-05:002010-06-08T17:18:35.730-05:00Sorry for the down time on this Blog, but it has taken a back seat to personal issues this past week.<div><br /></div><div>My Daughter's Wedding.</div>Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-63794434042123488132010-05-15T09:16:00.002-05:002012-09-14T08:57:47.884-05:00Design and the Social Media<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;">
<span style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt;">So you want to design a webpage, blog, facebook, or twitter page, here are some guidelines to help you along your way.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/13/social-network-design-examples-and-best-practices/"> </a><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/13/social-network-design-examples-and-best-practices/">Social Network Design: Examples and Best Practices</a></span></o:p></span></div>
Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-56082786670163820712010-05-13T16:08:00.003-05:002012-09-14T08:58:45.475-05:00Design and the Social Media<div style="line-height: 13.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 9.4pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Here is another piece on design and the social me</span></span><span style="color: black;">dia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2009/07/yes_your_social_media_strategy.html">Yes, Your Social Media Strategy Needs Design</a></span></h1>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">David Armano looks at </span></span><span style="color: black;">"social media" as a design problem and notes that Wikipedia describes design as;</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: black;"> " The planning that lays the basis for the making of every object or system. It can be used both as a noun and as a verb and, in a broader way; it means applied arts and engineering. As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or component with intention."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So maybe it is time to approach social business by design.</span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-61561090651914758342010-05-11T09:42:00.003-05:002010-05-11T09:56:25.892-05:00Design and the Social Media<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fBolfxlNRis/S-ltqENQNwI/AAAAAAAAABM/Z62oVJazbfk/s1600/design+communities.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 195px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fBolfxlNRis/S-ltqENQNwI/AAAAAAAAABM/Z62oVJazbfk/s320/design+communities.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470023791869441794" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Interesting information from <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/23/social-media-design-tools/">MASHABLE The social Media Guide</a> recognizing what Yochai Benkler said about collective communities in his book on the Wealth of Networks. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">If you’re a creative person, there’s no better way to improve your craft than by getting social. You can start by following designers and design blogs on the major social networks, but if you’re looking to really explore others’ work and share your own, design communities are key.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">“<strong><a href="http://www.society6.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Society6</a></strong> is an online community that allows artists to showcase their work, sell prints and find others to collaborate with,” says Mathers. “<strong><a href="http://www.behance.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Behance</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.thisiscentralstation.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">This is Central Station</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://creattica.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Creattica</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.designtaxi.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 102, 187); text-decoration: none; ">Design Taxi</a></strong> are some other great creative communities that I have used that help designers connect and promote their work.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Like any social network, the value is in sharing. “I upload any recent work I have to Society6 and Behance and use both platforms to interact with other creatives, find people to collaborate with, send and receive feedback, and generally communicate with others in similar industries,” says Mathers. “Both sites, particularly Behance, received a healthy amount of traffic … [they] are an excellent way to gain exposure in front of the right people.”</p></span>Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-82503302309222058262010-05-07T11:06:00.006-05:002012-09-14T08:59:24.162-05:00Design and the Social Media<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fBolfxlNRis/S-Q_JdHfl4I/AAAAAAAAABE/dAnfh3tBvEY/s1600/Blog+cartoon+for+design+and+social+media.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468565279202056066" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fBolfxlNRis/S-Q_JdHfl4I/AAAAAAAAABE/dAnfh3tBvEY/s320/Blog+cartoon+for+design+and+social+media.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 286px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I see the talk about the use of cartoons in the other blogs so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon; see, influenced by the social media. The <a href="http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/2009/07/index.html">article </a>associated with this cartoon, written by Tom Fishburne, offers some good information on the affects social media has on design, and possible legal implications that can occur if not careful,</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124078135070257099.html">WJS</a>.</span></span></span></span>Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-55469287248450915972010-05-05T09:25:00.004-05:002012-09-14T08:59:53.015-05:00Design and the Social Media<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Excerpt from: <a href="http://bx.businessweek.com/social-networking-web-design/view?url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/04/trends-peer-pressure-is-all-th.php"><span style="color: blue;">Bringing Google, Facebook, Twitter together: Third Party Grows Rapidly in 2010</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">"Who Sets the Terms<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">A decade or so ago, Google transformed the perceptive of the web by offering the "I'm feeling lucky". This amazing product (at the time) offered a knowing of the "best hit" for a term being searched. In a subtle, but important way, a taxonomy for the web has been introduced for the web. This default view is now monetized - and controlled - by Google in how it links to top level documents on the web.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span><br />Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-27670303841180320562010-04-30T09:38:00.006-05:002012-09-14T09:00:22.464-05:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The following article tells how a particular design came about and shows how society can dictate design and influences development of Web sites and e-mail marketing for clients in social media<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.marionstar.com/article/20100430/NEWS01/4300309">Merged agency adopts new logo design</a></div>
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Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-35185598131951104952010-04-27T11:52:00.005-05:002012-09-14T09:00:44.910-05:00Design and the Social MediaThe area of DESIGN has a large affect on the Social Media. The way webpages, advertisements, home pages, and even your blog pages are designed can influence sales, visits and so forth. Vandelay Designs has a good piece about <a href="http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/social-media/design-impact/">How Design Impacts Social Media.</a>Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117133904194238612.post-31376710054935401702010-04-24T14:32:00.002-05:002010-04-27T00:42:56.782-05:00WelcomeWelcome to my 1st Blog.<div>The Social Media Business Category in which I have chosen to work is DESIGN.</div>Erv McGinneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880841450189662103noreply@blogger.com2