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Comment on The Reverse Tip by The Chinese fapioa, or reverse tip — Marginal Revolution

The Chinese fapioa, or reverse tip — Marginal Revolution — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:30:33 +0000

[...] is the link, and for the pointer I thank Fred [...]

Comment on The Reverse Tip by Warren Ellis » Bookmarks for 2012-01-28

Warren Ellis » Bookmarks for 2012-01-28 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:55 +0000

[...] Future Perfect » The Reverse Tip"Thoughts for today: the situations where the buyer or seller will shift a measurable value (cash, money) into other less comparable forms (fapioa, …) to disguise the real value of the exchange. Who they are disguising it from. The legal and social rules surrounding the exchange. Aftermarkets for the receipts."(tags:money culture social ) [...]

Comment on The Handbag Paradox by My Daily Tweets 01.24.12 « memoirs on a rainy day

My Daily Tweets 01.24.12 « memoirs on a rainy day — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:02:50 +0000

[...] on Future Perfect: The Handbag Paradox explained: bit.ly/fp_whatlieswit… 14 hours [...]

Comment on Presentations & Downloads by Restructure your team to design for mobile first | thesquigglyline.com

Restructure your team to design for mobile first | thesquigglyline.com — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:42:04 +0000

[...] spot in your train carriage? In your bus or tram? Show them research to back up their observations. Anything by Jan Chipchase is brilliant. It’s a big change, but one that will only continue to pay dividends as time marches [...]

Comment on Put it On… by Future Perfect » Drive. Drive. Drive. Fly. Fly. Fly.

Future Perfect » Drive. Drive. Drive. Fly. Fly. Fly. — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:13:07 +0000

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Comment on Connections. Connectors. by Ted Gonder

Ted Gonder — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:03:22 +0000

Philip Auerswald turned me on to your blog and work a few months ago when I was working as an intern at the Kauffman Foundation. Now, finishing up my senior year as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, I’m embarking on my first major ‘foreign’ field research project…and I want to say that your methods and perspectives have entirely transformed the way I think about research methods. I love your blog and follow it closely. Your work inspires me – thanks for sharing so generously.

This post, in particular, was valuable to me.

Comment on Connections. Connectors. by janchip

janchip — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:11:50 +0000

To this:
- I prefer to understand the biases and work to negate or counterbalance them than have them as unknowns. Well run agencies will have an active discussion around this with their client, but many will rather hide their shortcomings because their cost-structure doesn’t support rich dialog. Going in-house means that internally these conversations can meaningfully be ongoing and the adjustments to the recruiting can be made in real time.
- Biases are not always a bad thing – it depends on the study goals.
- Of course certain people are more likely to respond to ads, and certain people are online. Commercial work tends to lean towards younger, more connected people. The ads can reach proximate-participants who then connect to their offline networks. Either way it reduces the degrees of separation.

Comment on Connections. Connectors. by Andy wells

Andy wells — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:49:46 +0000

Isn’t the use of the recruiting system outlined in this article just the substitution of one form of sample bias for another? While you’re getting rid of the control and prejudices of the recruiter, you’re guaranteeing a nonrepresentative sample by taking only Facebook users and, Perhaps more importantly, those who respond to ads. These people have to see an ad (filtered by adblocker or subconsciously by recount inept ignoring ads), read the ad, and then respond to it. It seems that your sample would be of those who are more responsive to ads than the general population, and also more socially networked. If your study is still valid despite those biases, I’d certainly endorse your methods.

Thanks for the continual insights, thoughtfulness and entertainment from your blog!

Comment on Is Internet Access a Human Right? by Future Perfect » 40 Qs About The (Coming) Revolution

Future Perfect » 40 Qs About The (Coming) Revolution — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:42:34 +0000

[...] See also: Is Internet Access a Human Right? [...]

Comment on A Shift From the Visual by PHOTO by francoise_fassin - Pearltrees

PHOTO by francoise_fassin - Pearltrees — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:52:08 +0000

[...] Future Perfect » A Shift From the Visual One of the perks this work is that you get to experience things a little off the beaten path – whether its remote vistas, or brushing up against personalities that wouldn’t be out of place in a Nollywood movie (or for me this week – for the first time experiencing adventure playgrounds in Tokyo through the eyes of my 20 mo/old). On occasion when I’ve shared an experience with on Twitter someone replies with “a photo or you didn’t see it”. The keen researcher of human behaviour can dissect this seemingly trivial phrase in any number of ways: that in a world of almost infinite content and link bait the burden of providing proof is on the sharer; that by most metrics a photo will suffice to provide that proof; and that the statement assumes that for the sharer to provide that photographic proof is a relatively trivial barrier to entry – they will no-doubt have a camera phone and sufficient internet connectivity. [...]

Comment on Playparks by Future Perfect » A Shift From the Visual

Future Perfect » A Shift From the Visual — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:50:57 +0000

[...] wouldn’t be out of place in a Nollywood movie (or for me this week – for the first time experiencing adventure playgrounds in Tokyo through the eyes of my 20 mo/old). On occasion when I’ve shared an experience with [...]

Comment on Edge. Edgier. Edgiest. by Future Perfect » Investigative Design / Materials

Future Perfect » Investigative Design / Materials — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:23:38 +0000

[...] slides from yesterday’s Arts Center presentation on Investigative Design can now be viewed – most of the material is taken from a previous presentation so regular readers will want to [...]

Comment on Coordination in the Future Urban by Future Perfect » Sustainability Summit Download

Future Perfect » Sustainability Summit Download — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:07:53 +0000

[...] The presentation from last week’s Systems, Cities and Sustainability Mobility Summit are now available. I’ll expand on material new to regular Future Perfect reader’s over the coming weeks. Download Coordination in the Future Urban. [...]

Comment on Bold by Car Color Trends In China [Headlines] | My Blog

Car Color Trends In China [Headlines] | My Blog — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:53:14 +0000

[...] Futurist Jan Chipchase says that car culture is still relatively immature in China and that means that customisation tends to be more of a “blunt stick.” Jan Chipchase [...]

Comment on Licensing by Malika Desvergnes

Malika Desvergnes — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:28:53 +0000

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In fact your creative writing abilities has inspired me to start my own BlogEngine blog now. it’s about to domain name|Really the blogging is spreading its wings rapidly. Your write up is a fine example of it….

Comment on Demographic Shifts by Population: 8 billion (and counting) #NaBloPoMo | The Cycling Monkey

Population: 8 billion (and counting) #NaBloPoMo | The Cycling Monkey — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:37:17 +0000

[...] so tune in during November. For now, allow me to leave you with a reflection lifted straight out of Future Perfect about the difficulty social norms have in keeping up with the ongoing demographic shifts: Bathroom [...]

Comment on Power Plays by Awards and Power at Alper.nl

Awards and Power at Alper.nl — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:45:37 +0000

[...] To all you who have won awards (and to all you who haven’t): awards handed out by its organiser who wants to be seen handing out awards to people who want to be seen receiving them. It’s a simple formulae, but unsustainable in a world where more of the demographic that attends communicates over the back-channel. —Jan Chipchase [...]

Comment on It’s Not Your Face, It’s Ours by The Guild of Scientific Troubadours » Blog Archive » Who owns your face? (biometrics, meet property rights)

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:10:12 +0000

[...] Future Perfect blog chases down what it might mean once we use our faces online: One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that I coming back to is near-time facial [...]

Comment on A Little Switch With a Big Impact by New Stuff Disrupts Old Habits | Blog | NewVoiceMedia

New Stuff Disrupts Old Habits | Blog | NewVoiceMedia — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:35:15 +0000

[...] title of this post was borrowed from the excellent blog site – http://janchipchase.com/content/essays/big-switch-with-a-little-impact/ Posted in: News & Events Share it Tags: call centre | ccexpo | cloud | cloud [...]

Comment on UBICOMP Links by Uberrima Fides | AnthroApp

Uberrima Fides | AnthroApp — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:29:55 +0000

[...] had it to do again, I would have taken her statement as a sign of Uberrima fides. The brilliant Jan Chipchase defines Uberrima fides as “The legal doctrine covering insurance contracts – where [...]

Comment on Chinese Bandit Translation Teams by Future Perfect » Chinese Bandit Translation Teams « GILTCareers.com Blog

Future Perfect » Chinese Bandit Translation Teams « GILTCareers.com Blog — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:52:28 +0000

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Comment on Publications by My talk at ‘The Power of Information’ Conference | macroscope

My talk at ‘The Power of Information’ Conference | macroscope — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:20:09 +0000

[...] the day that I particularly appreciate the work of anthropologists in the domain of communication – Jan Chipchase's work for Nokia was always stimulating, for example, and Dawn Nafus is likewise doing [...]

Comment on Tsunami, the Movie by Warren Ellis » British Summer Time

Warren Ellis » British Summer Time — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:56:13 +0000

[...] in Lagos, Jan Chipchase stopped moving long enough to find this odd little piece of cultural [...]

Comment on Lessons from Faux Pas by janchip

janchip — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:14:46 +0000

Small talk, rarely is.

Comment on Lessons from Faux Pas by Martin

Martin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:01:04 +0000

Almost never in China from what I have experienced but I don’t speak Chinese so it may be a language barrier thing.

Comment on Lessons from Faux Pas by Jody

Jody — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:16:16 +0000

I’m english and have a German girlfriend. So please don’t take this as blind prejudice. One thing that strikes me when I go over and visit is the lack of ‘small talk’ people engage in. Talking about the weather just isn’t the norm.

It made me reflect on the English traits: Small talk provides no hard information yet it does perform a social function.i.e. making people happier, expressing interest and caring. This doesn’t mean German people are not these things. Just different way of expressing it.

For the future I’ll make sure that I have things of substance to talk about.

Does small talk, in the English sense, exist in Shanghai?

Comment on Is Internet Access a Human Right? by Future Perfect » Is Internet Access a Human Right? « Sales is an art and a science!

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:41:49 +0000

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Comment on Field Research in the Age of Data Servitude by acne behandling

acne behandling — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:01:08 +0000

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Comment on Field Research in the Age of Data Servitude by Technical metadata | One Size Fits One

Technical metadata | One Size Fits One — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:44:00 +0000

[...] Jan Chipchase also recently wrote a really good post about making field data transparent to participants, and giving them control over what is finally tabled: Today we live in a world of data servitude, where commercial organisations own and have the rights to exploit the personal data that lies on their servers. Whilst the effort taken to harvest, sift and draw value comes with the assumption of being able to then seek commercial returns fro this investment, the relationship is one-sided, the process for the most part opaque. To truly go full circle is to give participants the rights and access to their personal data both now and for ever more, something that will enabled by the prevalence of always-on connectivity and a shift the expectations of participants. [...]

Comment on Forgiveness by Link Drop Tech Edition Number. 2 : DesignNotes by Michael Surtees

Link Drop Tech Edition Number. 2 : DesignNotes by Michael Surtees — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:42:14 +0000

[...] FUTURE PERFECT: Forgiveness One of the nuanced design features on an already exceptionally thought out product/service is the rubberised upper and lower casing. Beyond surviving drops, the texture and forgiveness in the surface supports wider a range of playing positions – wedged under the headrest, jammed above the rear-view mirror. A damage-free interior goes down well with our driver, Yasser. [...]