Classifying Crowdsourcing Platforms
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the value of crowdsourcing applications lately. Here’s a summary of thoughts & experience in a new blog post on Noodleplay.
Do you tell the client they're wrong?
After a day judging the interactive division of the National Advertising Awards, I left with a question in my head - if a client’s brief is poor, do you tell the client they’re wrong? Check out the post at our ideacouture blog.
Hopes and Fears from eMetrics Toronto
Yeah, my inconsistency is terrible with blogging. Apologies. I’m not going to make any promises about update frequency, but I’ll certainly try to try. Here’s my ongoing thoughts about the eMetrics Marketing Optimization conference I’m speaking at in Toronto.
Observations from Logan airport
Last night I was flying home from a fantastic business trip in Boston. With an hour to go before my flight, I decided to do a little exploration of Boston’s Logan Airport terminal E. Check out my most recent post on Noodleplay for more Glinski ramblings.
eMetrics Win!
eMetrics will be back around TO again next year. This year I had the pleasure to moderate the (poorly attended but extremely entertaining) innovation in metrics track of the conference.
This year I’ll be participating on the advisory board with some of my regular #WAWTO friends and some extremely accomplished web metrics specialists. I’m thrilled to be involved in this years program because it’s such an exciting time to be involved in the world of measure. While website metrics are obviously the focus, I’m starting to see some incredible data coming out of the world of physical computing. As objects become increasingly web enabled, I can help but expect that the website measurement world is going to migrate into a much bigger category of life analytics.
When we measure the web world, we can optimize it. Until recently, qualitative measurement has been a major focus for the physical world. Now that the tools are becoming available to measure the physical world by connecting it to the web, maybe us web analysts can create whole new industries.
Fingers crossed.
Ubicomp and our Changing Behaviour
Well, after a three month hiiaitus, I’ve finally got a new blog post up on Noodleplay. I’ve spent a lot of time lately reading about the visions of a Ubicomp society and quickly realized that it’s not an all or nothing situation - we are a few steps along the way to the ubicomp of Science Fiction. Mark Weiser has it right - we’re just in the beginning stages.
I’ve been photographing some of my robots around the office. I love trying to make toys look menacing.
Currently working on a blog post about Wall-E’s version of a ubicomp future for noodleplay, and I remembered an ebay auction I was watching. Sadly, the “Super Armatron” had been sold ($60 US, a little steep for my liking), but I figured the box was worth sharing. This “toy” reminded me of everything I love about vintage toys. Two ten-year-olds wearing lab coats dressed like scientists playing with a giant robot arm. The future looks really promising for those two.
The science fiction vision presented through toys in the early 80’s has such an incredible innocence to it. I guess that’s why I collect old robots.
Getting back into it
I recognize it’s been a while since I’ve last updated. It’s amazing how easy it is to lose your writing habit… thankfully it’s just as easy to pick it back up. Over the past two months of silence I’ve been continuing in the world of Arduino, Ubicomp, and picked up cause marketing as a new niche of Idea Couture work. More to come soon…
The new work space layout as we try to giveaway a ton of money for our client.
