- MY PHONE IS OFF FOR YOU
I'm reminded of reading someone's new definition of cool "If I'm hanging out with you, I never see your mobile phone". I know I'm, ah, less than faultless with this, but then, I've never claimed to be coo (althought I've tried to do better since reading that particular article). Still, getting one of these might be a good start. Although, reflecting on it a bit, there's a fine line between signalling to someone that they're important to you, and acting like you want brownie points for simple politeness…
- Abandoned Communities
No idea what I'll use this stuff for, mind. But I bet I will at some point.
- BBC News – The secrets of Britain's abandoned villages
I imagine that I'll find a use for this information at some point.
Tag: phone
Bookmarks for March 18, 2010
- Discovering SpatioTemporal Mobility Profiles of Cellphone Users
In brief: the geographic long tail. 15% of most peoples time is spent in places that they are in less than 1% of their time. People sometimes ask me why I want to start logging my GPS data, even if only privately – it's for this sort of stuff – to work out whether or not I can better optimise my personal possibility jelly. (And if I lost you there, then I suggest you google the term.) I'd like to better track what I'm doing with this 15%, and see if I can't grab some hours back.