links for 2006-08-17

Web­site of “a per­va­sive sur­veil­lance project”. “Imag­ine that you are walk­ing down the street when you hear a beep from your phone. You see a mes­sage read­ing: “You were in a flower shop and spent 30 min­utes in the park; are you in love?”” Intrigu­ing, i

“Buy more shiny nokia phones, or some­thing. It’s like liv­ing in the future.” Heath­cote admits to lov­ing his new Nokia E70, sort of.

Quite a thor­ough look at ways to elab­o­rate on per­sonas in order to make them more use­ful for use when design­ing more infor­ma­tion-dri­ven con­sumer-fac­ing web­sites. Includes a link to a use­ful toolkit.

Post by Iden­ti­ty Cri­sis author Jim Harp­er on how fake ideas allow Sun­ni to safe­ly trav­el through hos­tile ter­ri­to­ry con­trolled by Shi­ite. It puts the whole online fed­er­at­ed iden­ti­ty debate into perspective.

Webb con­tem­plates ancient British bur­rows and their impli­ca­tions for the con­cept of ownership.

Coop­er explains how per­sonas came to be: “The prob­lem is that while log­ic is a pow­er­ful and effec­tive pro­gram­ming tool, it is a pathet­i­cal­ly weak and inap­pro­pri­ate inter­ac­tion design tool.”

This is an excel­lent piece on the par­al­lels between the evo­lu­tion of online games and the prac­tice of infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture. There’s a lot to con­tem­plate here, among those the impact of open stan­dards on the for­ma­tion of online communities.