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When the Government Does Technology
Joel Selanikio on 4 February 2010 - 4:55pm
So the U.S. Chief Technology Officer today announced a "free mobile health service for pregnant women and new mothers." The system, text4baby, allows moms to receive text messages about baby health on their phones.
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When tech people don't get what users want.
Joel Selanikio on 4 February 2010 - 3:32pm
Terrific posting at Mule Design Studios about "the failure of empathy", specifically the empathy of tech people for what real people really want:
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Tufte's "Visual Display of Quantitative Information": probably the best book ever written on how to represent numbers with images.
Joel Selanikio speaks at MIT about information technologies from Gutenberg to those now allowing poorer countries to participate in information consumption and production.
