Comments for Noah Liebman

Comment on Why?: A few thoughts on Adam Greenfield’s Everyware by Noah

Noah — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:20:45 +0000

To follow up, I had the following back-and-forth with AG on Twitter (in its entirety, for the sake of completeness; editing tweets seemed silly):

@agpublic: @Noleli Wow, that reading is pretty wide of the mark. I must not have done a very good job of getting my skepticism across.

@Noleli: @agpublic Thanks for the reply and clarification. It’s awesome that you engage with your readers.

@agpublic: @Noleli Aw, heck. That’s nothing. If you’re not careful I’ll show up on your blog. ; . )

@Noleli: @agpublic I imagine it’d be hard to be visionary & creative while still being skeptical, which I guess is why they’re separate in the book.

@Noleli: @agpublic My recollection (I read Ew/wrote that ~9 months ago & posted it for a friend in the Bay Area UX book club) is that the first part…

@Noleli: @agpublic …had a sense of inevitability that made me nervous. Like I said, the skepticism toward the end was a relief (I think we agree).

@Noleli: @agpublic Also, the lens I look at ubicomp through is that which worries about losing our sense of our environment by offloading to sensors.

@agpublic: @Noleli Well, obviously (or at least I hope it’s obvious) I totally share those concerns. My aim was to steer the inevitable.

@agpublic: @Noleli And maybe, just maybe, those of us who feel this way can claim one or two small victories.

Comment on A Subversion Gripe & .htaccess mod_rewrite Issue by John Erck

John Erck — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:43:42 +0000

I have no idea why that logic doesn’t work… that EXACTLY what I did. I too use Dreamhost. I’m hoping somebody can explain why our logic is not working.

Comment on Another small-world internet story by Hung

Hung — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:40:45 +0000

Just because events are improbable does not mean they do not happen. In fact, with the sheer number of events happening, it is expected that many improbable events happen. Like the one you just described.

Comment on Instant Hijack and Digi CoreAudio driver are not friends by reid

reid — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:01:17 +0000

youre a savior

Comment on On Interruptions: Theory and Practice by Cory Kaufman

Cory Kaufman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:42:57 +0000

I totally agree– I did my paper on interruptibility as well, though I think I read different papers. I was really surprised that they measured busy periods as lasting under 2 minutes for the majority of tasks. That just didn’t seem right to me.

As we talked about in class a couple of weeks ago, interruptions come pretty close to 4 times an hour, and each interruption delays work on average… 15 minutes. Do the math,and you’re not getting any work done. Thus, the natural conclusion should be to minimize the interruptions, not delay them. That approach has been working out pretty well for me so far… though I am envious of you having an entire day disconnected. I don’t think I could do that, though I’m sure I’d get a ton of work done.

Comment on So You Lied to Them. by KBD

KBD — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:16:41 +0000

Hi Noah,
We are in the process of rejuvenating our High School Theater Department. It’s a nice facility that has suffered from a serious lack of funds. The school activities director purchased an old studio mixing console and the kids have had hard time trying to make it work for the theater. What console would you recommend? The ideal console from a booster perspective would be easy to operate, and industry relevant. We still have a very small budget and would need to purchase used gear. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
KBD

Comment on In Pursuit of Consumerism by Hung

Hung — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:48:33 +0000

Yup, tl;dr.

Comment on Instant Hijack and Digi CoreAudio driver are not friends by Exxille

Exxille — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:38:44 +0000

OH thank you sweet sweet man or woman this solved my proble,

Comment on On Hamlet’s Blackberry by danny bloom

danny bloom — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:18:47 +0000

ALEX BEAM, Boston Globe

I screen, you screen, we all screen

Boston Globe – Boston,MA,USA

When writing about digital reading – blogger is pushing the
neologism “screening,” for reading on the screen – Mangen, Nielsen, …

http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2009/06/19/paper_vs_computer_screen

ALEX BEAM, Boston Globe

Comment on Proxyless Domain Proxy by Noah

Noah — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:26:25 +0000

I just want to point out that I had some trouble with Firefox recognizing CSS files as CSS using this method. I even manually added HTTP headers (in PHP), but it didn’t work.