in the blogstream
Hola kittens and floozmongers today is the day we stand proud and claim "We are the future farmers, we are the content cripples, we are the disco kidz of our generation!" and then we go back to whatever we were doin. So how've you been? Good?
Engadget made this nice belt buckle for me.. isn't that sweet? Awww thx everyone! I've been hoppin all over the net lately. I'm still thinkin about:
- gettin an mac mini for apple's motion and iphoto
- figuring out a way to broadcast tunes
- got an excellent idea last nite on a new video for work peeps
- gettin back to talkin crap
- buying upgrade to visual communicator
- world of warcraft.. ha!
- putting together an independent study on emerging technology applied to groovy trends
- finish reading like six books
What I have done...
- killed off my ATT contract, die bastards
- killed my first paladin in world of warcraft, die goody bastards
- got back on the treadmill, fitness oooooooo
- hugged my baby often, and always
Not bad. So far so good. And now some random linkage. This year I really need to kick off a few projects that take advantage of such amazing emergingly awesome tech out there. Sometimes its a hard battle to get old researchers to approach a problem in a new way. Folks have a system that works why change it. I can see that. Still I feel like software is exploding on the scene lately and is ripe for research implementation. I'm mainly talking about using Flickr and Netomat. I think they are waaaay overdue to be used on a project. I've been given the go ahead to spin up an independent project using both technologies or any others I see fit.
Lets get folks to talk about pictures. Ok so what projects in the past have been very qualitative in regards to reaping good data from lots of pics? Hmmmm well we have...
- a brand study, pick a brand and do a brainstorm on it, etc..
- a product study, pick an object, household or something, journal it, blog it, group brainstorm on it
- an enviromental space, pick a store, or type of store or space, journal it, blog it, photo the heck outa it
- a space in the consumers life, for instance a garage study, how do people organize their garage, photo it, talk about it, use netomat to reorg it,
Ya I like it. Need to get some questions clear in my head and then...
- ask the questions, what are the answers you wish to find
- who benefits
- methodolgy in place, what you are going to do
- proposal it, write that proposal baby
- recruit it, determine the demographics, create the screener and get the folks
- develop a guide sheet, method to get what we want into flickr, netomat etc,
- field it ( the funnest part )
- analyze it ( use tags in flickr as much as possible, pathfinder it )
- present results
Look at me i'm all bullety today. Ahhh well. I like it, I need to start. Must go!