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April 13 2010

olishaw
12:45

Your vs. My Pattern - Design Pattern Library - YDN

Labeling stuff with "My" imitates the point of view of the user. It is as if the user has printed out labels and stuck them to various objects: My Lunch, My Desk, My Red Stapler. Except the user hasn't done this; you (the site) did it for them.

Labeling stuff with "Your" instead reinforces the conversational dialogue. It is how another human being might address you when talking about your stuff. Even with MySpace, people say things like "I saw what you put on your MySpace."
Tags: patterns ux language pattern

December 02 2009

olishaw
15:14

LongNow: Daniel Everett, "Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future"

Really cool talk about the knowledge lost as languages vanish. Pretty amusing, too. From http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/mar/20/endangered-languages-lost-knowledge-and-future/
Tags: lecture language knowledge longnow daniel everett endangered cultures babel

November 12 2009

olishaw
09:10

Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future

Daniel Everett discusses the Pirahã and their language. The language has no words for numbers, no words for right and left and lacks any examples of recursion. This last trait forces us to rethink everything we thought we knew about language. The discussion of the Pirahã language itself is excellent, but Everett's discussion of why endangered languages need to be preserved is absolutely fascinating. His recommendations for preserving endangered languages include preserving natives speaker's land and their heath. He also recommends studying and documenting these languages over a long period of time, as he has done with the Pirahã language. From http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/ More information on this seminar is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/daniel-everett-endangered-languages-lost-knowledge-and-the-future/
Tags: daniel everett seminar salt stewart brand interview long now anthropology linguistics language pirahã brazil amazon
olishaw
09:08

What Makes Us Human: Part 1 - Others

Are humans unique or do we just do some things a little better than other species? In the first of our two-part series on the nature of humanity: how the influence of others has shaped our evolution. Find out how baby talk gave root to human language and why social isolation can make us sick. Plus, the joke’s on us – new research says we’re not the only laughing species: meet your giggling gorilla cousins. And, what a writer’s visit to a chimp retirement center revealed about human discomfort with our animal ancestry. Dean Falk – Anthropologist at Florida State University and author of Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language John Cacioppo – Director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago and co-author of Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection Lori Marino – Biologist at Emory University Kathryn Denning – Anthropologist at York University Charles Siebert – Author of The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals Marina Davila-Ross – Psychologist at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K.
Tags: human beings homo sapiens people biology anthropology apes chimps monkeys psychology social behavior science language seti

July 23 2009

olishaw
12:08

BabelWith.Me - Create a Conversation

Tags: tools web2.0 socialnetworking collaboration technology communication twitter translation translator language chat bable
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