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Posted April 15, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: BumpTop, desktop, desktop metaphor, file organization, hci, metaphor. Be the first one.

Stefan Savage, speaking in a segment on March 13’s On The Media, asked:
The question I like to ask people is, what are you going to do to the highway system to reduce crime. And when you put it that way, it sounds absolutely ridiculous, because while criminals do use the highway, no rational person is [...]

Posted March 31, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: crime, highways, internet, metaphor, security, social problems, technical problems, trust. Be the first one.

I was using the dirty laundry metaphor in a previous post and wanted to extend it a bit by saying something like:
For the generation of children who’s parents have already posted their silliest and most embarrassing baby pictures to Facebook and elsewhere, being caught in your underwear is both expected and forgivable. Being evil, on [...]

Posted January 17, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: dirty laundry, metaphor, underwear. One Comment.

Eleta explained it this way, and credited it to R. David Lankes:
Your data:

Your metadata:

CANDY BAR, data, metadata, metaphor

Posted October 10, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: CANDY BAR, data, metadata, metaphor. 3 Comments.