December 2007
2 posts
Edward T. Hall meets ThoughtFarmer
I read the Hidden Dimension in second year university doing my undergraduate degree in Communications. Working in IT, it’s not often you get to dust an anthropology book from the 1960’s, but Hall’s notion of proxemics seemed like a fitting backdrop for trying to put a structure to the social software problem of activity notifications and the potential firehouse of information you...
on the giving of gifts
Every year around this time, give or take a week or so, I head out to purchase gifts for Christmas. I try to stay close to home, accomplishing my gift buying on foot on Broadway or throughout Kits if possible. And if not, then within walking distance of my office in Gastown. I try to stay away from malls. They can be an efficient use of your time at certain periods throughout the year, but this is...