By bluerasberry on 2014-08-15
I have been getting these lousy three euro coffees around Paris. I was reading my travel book and Rick Steves says that this place called Fouquet’s on Champs-Elysees has been famous since World War I for having good coffee which also now is the most expensive of anywhere in Paris at 12 euros for a […]
Posted in Paris, service industry | Tagged coffee
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-14
I went to the Palace of Versailles. I had studied the place a bit and wanted to see it for myself so that I could better understand it, so I went Thursday 14 August in the morning. There was a line for a security check. It took some time for me to get through this […]
Posted in Paris, tour | Tagged Devyani Khobragade, labor, museum, palace
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-13
I have never been seen an automatic coffee making machine for single-serve restaurant use but they seem to be everywhere in Paris. Even some nice looking coffeehouse or restaurants here with perfect service do not have their staff make coffee except to have a machine produce it. I always wondered what engineering difficulties there might […]
Posted in Paris, service industry | Tagged coffee
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-12
I talked to some Wikipedians from India at the Wikimania conference. I asked them about the relationship between Wikimedia India, the Wikimedia community in India, the Wikimedia Founation, and the Centre for Internet and Society, a nonprofit organization in India which manages some Wikipedia affairs there. They told me about general conversations among participants in […]
Posted in India, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimedia chapter
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-02
I am carrying the London book by Seattle’s own Rick Steves. I read the book in his voice, as I used to watch his PBS travel show and liked hearing him live in and around Seattle when he would speak to talk about travel and cannabis. Last time I was in London in December 2006 […]
Posted in England, India, museum | Tagged Winston Churchill, World War II
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-02
Wikimania starts Wednesday. Friday after work I went to the airport with intent to sleep on the way to London so that I could wake up and start some days touring. My flight left at 9am and I woke up in London in the morning. On the flight I watched Jodorowsky’s Dune and Tim’s Vermeer. […]
Posted in art | Tagged documentary, Jodorowsky, Vermeer
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-28
If you are thinking of doing research on Wikipedia’s editor community, please read this. It is easy for researchers to harm Wikipedia’s editing community by disturbing our projects, so please be mindful that your project can cause trouble if you do not take precaution and show compassion to the volunteers who are in this space. […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged informed consent
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-27
I am concerned about researchers recruiting Wikipedia community volunteers as human subject participants in their research when they need people to take surveys or be interviewed. The major problems with research on the Wikipedia community is that time in research is time taken away from Wikipedia community activities and research done by outsiders to the […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged survey, volunteer
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-27
After meeting Nick at home I started thinking to myself about what projects I am doing which relate to large data sets so that I could see the extent to which I had some ground for collaboration with him and others in this space. My primary pursuit is public is facilitating public access to information, […]
Posted in clinical research, health, Open access, quantified self, Wikipedia | Tagged activity tracking, big data
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-26
A team of us at CR visited the Kickstarter office in Brooklyn Thursday 24 July. We mostly did this to see an example of a consumer-to-consumer marketplace. The idea of visiting arose when we noticed demand that we do product testing on several products which had been produced through Kickstarter’s platform. In my mind, Kickstarter, […]
Posted in New York City, quantified self, rights | Tagged activity tracking, Airbnb, Kickstarter, marketing, open notes, PatientsLikeMe, Uber
