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My spreadsheet is great for analysing open sorts – it manages participant results, helps you explore the data and does some basic statistical analysis.

‘You’re probably used to doing certain tasks on your Windows computer in particular ways. This page shows you how to accomplish the same tasks on a Mac.’ This is exactly what I need right now :) Thanks

The challenge: How do we design to be sometimes off in a world that is itself always on?

Here are some of the common pitfalls that lead to failure when building social web applications.

Iterative design isn’t design by trial and error. Iterative design is a process of continually improving not just the design, but also the problem your design is trying to solve. via David Malouf

All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you… via Anne Zelenka

The knowledge worker (the executive in Drucker’s quote) goes after individual productivity; the web worker after group-based, collaborative, wisdom-of-crowds productivity.

this great little ladder graphic to explain the distribution of participation by dividing the world into creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators and inactives:

Despite popular theories posed in research papers and popular literature, early man was not an aggressive killer, ..”Our intelligence, cooperation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator,”

Generations last the length of time of one phase of life–the same length of time as a turning. Like turnings, generations also come in four different archetypes, defined in “The Fourth Turning” as Prophet, Nomad, Hero and Artist.

my word of the week. A thought experiment in the broadest sense is the use of a hypothetical scenario to help us understand the way things actually are. via http://www.beltzner.ca