Blogging Birds: Telling Informative Stories About the Lives of Birds from Telemetric Data

Communications of the ACM, March 2019
By Advaith Siddharthan, Kapila Ponnamperuma, Chris Mellish, et al.

“The Blogging Birds system shows that raw satellite tag data can be transformed into fluent, engaging, and informative texts directed at members of the public and in support of nature conservation.”

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The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All

Wired, June 24, 2019
By Zeynep Tufekci

“Online fakery runs wide and deep, but you don’t need me to tell you that. New species of digital fraud and deception come to light almost every week, if not every day: Russian bots that pretend to be American humans. American bots that pretend to be human trolls. Even humans that pretend to be bots. Yep, some “intelligent assistants,” promoted as advanced conversational AIs, have turned out to be little more than digital puppets operated by poorly paid people. ”

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Mark Zuckerberg walks down aisle of theater full of people wearing Oculus augmented reality headsets. (It's a new wilderness)

The New Wilderness

Idle Words
By Maciej Cegłowski

“For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it “ambient privacy” – the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.”

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Nielsen Norman Group

Hierarchy of Trust: The 5 Experiential Levels of Commitment

Nielsen Norman Group, March 6, 2016
Persuasive Design, Credibility, Trust & User eXperience
By Kate Sherwin

“Summary: Sites must meet users’ basic trust needs before they demand that visitors enter information or engage with them. The trust pyramid has 5 distinct levels of user commitment, each with separate design requirements before users will give a website what it wants from them.”

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Nielsen Norman Group

Web UX 2016 vs 2004 & How to Maximize User Research Insight

Nielsen Norman Group, December 29, 2016 & January 12, 2017
Web, Usability & User eXperience
By Jakob Nielsen

“Jakob Nielsen presents a rare longitudinal study of 12 years’ evolution in web usability: what’s gotten better, and where we still need to improve, and discusses how to base design changes on valid UX research methods and gain the biggest ROI from the usability investment.”

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National CyberSecurity Awareness Month

National CyberSecurity Awareness Month – October 2019

National Cyber Security Alliance

“Under the overarching theme of ‘Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT.’, the 16th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is focused on encouraging personal accountability and proactive behavior in security best practices and digital privacy. It is also focused on drawing attention to careers in cybersecurity. ”

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Nielsen Norman Group

Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age

Nielsen Norman Group, July 3, 2016
Branding, Interaction Design
By Kate Kaplan

“Summary: While branding has been around since people began buying and trading goods, the definition has evolved in the Digital Age. Consumers now have a wider range of interaction with companies and greater choice in product selection. Today, brand is the holistic sum of customers’ experiences, composed of visual, tonal and behavioral brand components, many of which are shaped by interaction design.”

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