tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.comments2024-02-29T06:51:50.242+01:00Daniel Pargman's academic homepagepargmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-83288297174275214052018-03-10T13:13:39.888+01:002018-03-10T13:13:39.888+01:00Nice of you to say that I only "sound like&qu...Nice of you to say that I only "sound like" a vindictive idiot - as apart from being one. You on the other hand (last two comments) are cowards for not even signing your comments with a name. I generally don't deign to answer anonymous comments and my choice was thus between erasing the comments or just not bothering to answer. Which I didn't - for more than a year.<br /><br />For all I know, the comments above might be written by Chelo himself (sour grapes) and I don't have much to say to him. Chelo might have the rules (narrowly interpreted) on his side, but he is obviously an asshole. It's in my right to tell the world what an asshole he is on my private blog. Which I did. That's basically the price you have to be prepared to pay for being an asshole in the age of social media. It's Chelo's right to write an answer and tell me and everyone else why he isn't and why I misunderstood his actions. <br /><br />Nuff said. I might delete comments that doesn't engage in the issue at hand from now on. <br /><br />Also, this is my 3rd most popular blog post ever with >5000 reads so it's not just me who thinks this is interesting. <br /><br />Also, I have noticed that Airbnb has be redesigned to make it much much harder to do the same mistake I did (book several apartments during the same period). And who knows, perhaps someone from Airbnb read my blog post and it made a small difference in changing someone's mind?pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-50613719311524621362018-01-21T02:11:17.280+01:002018-01-21T02:11:17.280+01:00This post makes you sound like a vindictive idiot....This post makes you sound like a vindictive idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-27026018920144821132018-01-03T18:02:21.935+01:002018-01-03T18:02:21.935+01:00Happy to be part of SPOC and see these student pro...Happy to be part of SPOC and see these student projects take formCeciliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09064151389342043012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-24975725438802127972017-10-11T10:13:31.692+02:002017-10-11T10:13:31.692+02:00First of all i would like to thank you for the gre...First of all i would like to thank you for the great and informative entry. I has to admit that I have never heard about this information I have noticed many new facts for me. Thanks a lot for sharing this useful and attractive information and I will be waiting for other interesting posts from you in the nearest future. Keep it up.. Smithhttps://www.youniversitytv.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-86373120073635123592017-02-27T18:11:35.599+01:002017-02-27T18:11:35.599+01:00I think that you are a person with anger managemen...I think that you are a person with anger management issues. Yes, Chelo could have accepted your proposal, or not. And he didn't. Why should he get exposed in public? Why should he be insulted by you? I think this article says much more about you, than it says about him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-66866413515119634502017-01-19T19:10:26.641+01:002017-01-19T19:10:26.641+01:00Thanks for this wonderful post and for performing ...Thanks for this wonderful post and for performing the impossible task of reducing Boltanski and Chiapello to manageable proportions and getting the essence just right (cooking metaphors of sauce reduction keep coming to mind).<br /><br />However, I take issue with the Open Source quote. No one works "without a salary." We are supported through our own labor directly or indirectly through that of others (welfare transfers, help from family members, and so on). The sharing economy (and correlates such as Open Source) propose that we don't need pesky things like benefits and well-paid jobs. Marx's notion of labor-time is relevant here; the worker must be able to find food, shelter, basic necessities or he or she cannot do any work at all. In feudal times, serfs did all this for themselves on land provided by the lord of the manor. Now we need jobs or welfare to accomplish the same (using our dollars to consume what the market produces). Capitalism has become adept at keeping these costs to itself low and sqeezing lots of free labor out of us in various ways. Note how it co-opted Open Source.<br /><br />Hard-hitting ending about the willing participants!<br /><br />Bonnie NardiBonnie Nardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03861823956078794511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-48043082023086628682017-01-05T01:17:49.233+01:002017-01-05T01:17:49.233+01:00Graeber överraskar mig inte men för mig var det li...Graeber överraskar mig inte men för mig var det lite mer otippat att du har läst Morozov och speciellt Lanier.pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-44572612284967212832017-01-04T16:15:32.970+01:002017-01-04T16:15:32.970+01:00En bra lista! Jag har också läst en del av dem typ...En bra lista! Jag har också läst en del av dem typ Graeber, Lanier och MorozovPer-Anders Forstorphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13200583277140012730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-84524489966801620032016-10-06T13:41:22.070+02:002016-10-06T13:41:22.070+02:00Those are valid points - I guess it comes down to ...Those are valid points - I guess it comes down to why you read. From my point of view, I feel that as an academic I have to read instrumentally much of the time. Books are in a very real sense crucial instruments of my work, and to have the time to deploy all the instruments, I need I have to process them faster than I can do when I read at my leisure. To do that I feel Edwards' approach is very helpful. But of course these are not mutually exclusive perspectives - you can read some stuff instrumentally and other stuff as an end in itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-41128431302421643792016-10-06T04:22:21.079+02:002016-10-06T04:22:21.079+02:00Yes, I do read the books from cover to cover. It h...Yes, I do read the books from cover to cover. It has happened, but it is rare that I don't. I started to look at the Edwards text but will have to print it on paper and read it from beginning to end (ha!) to form an opinion about it. <br /><br />But I do notice on the very first page that he assumes a couple of things that aren't true for my reading (both for my *way* of reading and for the *reasons* why I read). The very first sentence is:<br /><br />"How can you learn the most from a book — or any other piece of writing — when you're reading for information, rather than for pleasure?"<br />--- This perspective - of attempting to maximise the amount of information/understanding per minute of invested time - feels alien to me. I *do* read academic books partly for pleasure, not only for "extracting" info (e.g. the Cliff notes approach to academic texts).<br /><br />"unless you’re stuck in prison with nothing else to do, NEVER read a non-fiction book or article from beginning to end."<br />--- This is *very* normative. Am I supposed to feel like a chump - the last idiot on earth - for reading books from the beginning to the end?<br /><br />"This is how you’ll get the most out of a book in the smallest amount of time"<br />--- His perspective in all its cold, hard, instrumental nakedness. Reading not as an end but always as a means. That's not my reading.<br /><br />Also, I feel that by reading the book from beginning to end, I read the book the way the author intended the book to be read and that I thereby respect the author's intentions. Not that all authors are always worth that respect - but I would hope that my selective *book-buying* habits (never buy a book I don't intend to read cover to cover) will filter away most non-worthy authors. I hardly ever throw myself over a book that was just printed. I almost always hang back and wait. I might then buy it and it can easily take another year (or two) before that book has made it to the top of the queue...<br />pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-83825622824395405082016-10-05T20:33:32.260+02:002016-10-05T20:33:32.260+02:00Since you measure reading productivity in pages, I...Since you measure reading productivity in pages, I take it you usually read the books cover to cover? Nothing wrong with that of course, but for an interesting alternative approach you might want to check out the one outlined by Paul Edwards: http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-6573775346402944122016-09-18T03:16:05.886+02:002016-09-18T03:16:05.886+02:00Dec 2014:
I don't object to hosts *having* ca...Dec 2014: <br />I don't object to hosts *having* cancellation policies. I however think that this particular host in this particular case could have been more forthcoming. Of course he was within his rights (as defined by the Airbnb service) to steal my money, but that doesn't make him any less of an asshole:<br />- I was just barely on the wrong side of the strict cancellation policy deadline and had I booked on day earlier, my problems would have been considerably smaller.<br />- I can not imagine that the host lost a lot of business during the few (12 hours? - don't really remember) that passed between the point in time when I booked the apartment and the point in time when I cancelled.<br />- I offered to pay for 1/5 nights (20%) and did agree to pay for 2/5 nights (40%) to another host. <br /><br />So, what kind of an asshole refuses to meet halfway during these circumstances? Well, someone like Chelo apparently. I guess my "revenge" is that close to 5000 people have read this blog post in the 32 months that has passed since I wrote it...<br /><br />March 2016 seems to have anger issues but I can't comment because it's hard to understand what the point of his/her comment is. That I shouldn't go to Argentina unless I'm more affluent? That [something about] Recoleta [something]? Well, we came to Argentina to meet my wife's family and to have our kids get to know their cousins. Is there something wrong with that?<br />pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-42495292360312181962016-09-16T02:49:06.950+02:002016-09-16T02:49:06.950+02:00We found out it was rejected by TFSC at the end of...We found out it was rejected by TFSC at the end of the summer. I think we will rework it and make another attempt but we haven't come around to what and where yet. Also, we in parallell working with another, "CHI-adapted" version of the paper/the results of the research project.<br /><br />But not, it has not yet been published. The "other half" of the project has been published where these five scenarios are evaluated from a sustainability point of view, but the scenarios have not been published yet. pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-48426807913362807142016-09-15T21:54:51.451+02:002016-09-15T21:54:51.451+02:00Was the paper eventually published? Is that access...Was the paper eventually published? Is that accessible anywhere? I would be very interested to read it.Patricia Lagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968894369791671101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-68552954418760049032016-09-14T11:00:20.393+02:002016-09-14T11:00:20.393+02:00Dear Daniel,
I'm glad we cleared this out. I ...Dear Daniel,<br /><br />I'm glad we cleared this out. I will definitely mention your constructive feedback and advice to the organizers of the next ICT4S. <br />Let me also say that I'm proud of being part of such a lively and passionate community: I think this level of discussion and reflection is very rare nowadays in other, more technical, scientific fields.<br /><br />That being said, indeed, I hope to see you in Toronto in 2018!<br /><br />Best,<br />GiuseppeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745627142970443351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-19379004730863802982016-09-13T17:15:13.880+02:002016-09-13T17:15:13.880+02:00Hello Guiseppe.
I will start by thanking you for ...Hello Guiseppe.<br /><br />I will start by thanking you for taking the time to respond, I appreciate that you took the time to clarify some things I obviously had misunderstood. <br /><br />I think you are right that we probably had different expectations about the workshop/WorkStation. Since "WorkStation" is a new format, the goals and the format could (and should) perhaps have been clarified at the beginning of the session so that we were all on the same page as to the purpose of the session. As it was, the closest thing I could think of was a "workshop" with you as the "organiser" or "workshop leader". I obviously don't know what instructions you received beforehand.<br /><br />I should also say that I very much enjoyed the discussion and the range of opinions that were expressed, but, I felt like you (plural) could have tried to take dissenting opinions onboard. In the "data leads to information leads to knowledge leads to intelligence leads to sustainability" discussion it felt like you assumed this was the case rather than for example turning it into a question that we could have discussed, e.g. "do you think it's the case that data leads to..."<br /><br />But you are certainly right in that I have had to think some more about why I felt critical about some of the things that were said (perhaps then in a purposefully provocative manner) - as you can see I went through the effort of looking up relevant quotes (Bateson, Morozov etc.) and formulating a response.<br /><br />I'd like to again thank you for responding. My constructive advice (for the next WorkStation) would be to start the session by adjusting the expectations, e.g. discussing the format and what you wanted to accomplish with the event. I think a lot of misunderstandings could have been avoided that way. I'd also like to add that my purpose with writing the text above was not to be mean but I have to admit I was a little "miffed" after the session (partly having to do with different expectations etc.).<br /><br />Thank you for taking the time to organise the event and I hope to see you at the next ICT4S conference in 2018.<br /><br />Yours,<br /><br />/Danielpargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-1862409551675859022016-09-11T02:07:02.128+02:002016-09-11T02:07:02.128+02:00Dear Daniel,
my name is Giuseppe and I was the &q...Dear Daniel,<br /><br />my name is Giuseppe and I was the "younger Italian post-doctoral researcher who worked in Amsterdam" who co-moderated the WorkStation on Big Data and IoT for Sustainability that you attended. I read your post with quite some interest and I think it deserves a reply from my side.<br /><br />Let me start by saying that I think you had different expectations on the WorkStation with respect to what it meant to be (or rather, how me and Hans intended it when we were asked by the organizers). The WorkStation is not a "workshop", as you call it in your post, and we are not its "organizers". It is a 90-minute session in which a stimulating discussion around the theme has to take place. My and Hans' role was merely to facilitate that discussion, which we had to "tease" and trigger using some pointers and INTENTIONALLY controversial statements. <br /><br />Let me further argument that. It was not our role to "convince" the audience of our personal opinions. However, we did have to take a position in order to stimulate the discussion. So the fact that you define our positions as "weird" and "controversial" should be put in that context. The different points we presented were simply inspired by public knowledge and scientific debates, with the only intention of putting the attendees in a critical mindset (by the way, judging from your post it seems we succeeded in such task).<br /><br />From my side (I obviously cannot speak on Hans' behalf), I do not have the stance you attributed me in your post. I am not a technology fanatic, and I do not think IoT and Big Data are the key to sustainability, for what it's worth. Also, you write: "I found it curious that the organisers assumed that increased "intelligence" would always be used in ways that would be beneficial to us as end users, consumers and citizens. I honestly think they had never considered that it could be any other way." I can assure you this is completely not true, and if you had looked up my research focus and my background, you would know that. <br /><br />Regarding the "data-as-a-currency" idea that you mention: I am pleased it caught your interest (which was my intention when I brought it up) and I fully acknowledge that, as you are definitely more knowledgeable than me in the area, you can find it naive (although I would have appreciated not calling it "half-assed"). It was obviously an over-simplification as it does not pertain to my research, hence I do not have the knowledge nor the experience to approach the topic in a scientifically sound and circumstantiated manner: this was what the attendees were supposed to do. <br /><br />This relates to my final point: when you say "Other interesting opinions that were expressed at the workshop (in my opinion) exclusively came from the participants rather than from the organisers", apart from using the word "workshop" and "organizers" inappropriately, you actually are perfectly right. I think this is another possible misunderstanding: the session was MEANT to have participants express interesting opinions, not us. We were mere facilitators/synthesizers of what you brought up, and I'm sorry if we gave a different impression. All being said, however, I think we successfully conveyed the spirit of the session in the sum-up the following morning, and I personally found it extremely inspiring, although as you say, maybe the level of the moderators was not as high as in other events you followed.<br /><br />All in all, I thank you for contributing to our session and to the conference. I am glad you enjoyed this edition and I wish to see you again in ICT4S 2018!<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Giuseppe ProcacciantiAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745627142970443351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-42604813390585900772016-09-09T14:00:06.894+02:002016-09-09T14:00:06.894+02:00And thank you for your comments and suggestions fo...And thank you for your comments and suggestions for readings!pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-53241502382341381982016-09-07T21:08:05.942+02:002016-09-07T21:08:05.942+02:00Söderström's book is definitely worth reading ...Söderström's book is definitely worth reading and definitely entertaining, even if it gets its point across fairly quickly.<br /><br />The Danish text isn't particularly flashy or extraordinary, but the results are interesting and for some reason I still think it one of the most interesting articles I've read... It's just kind of stuck with me. <br /><br />There was a HCI book published 3-4 years ago that also uses the 7 deadly sins as design guidelines which is also pretty interesting, but perhaps not particularly academic in nature :-) Evil by Design: interaction design to lead us into temptation<br /><br />Morgan's book is new to me, but I'll definitely have a look at it. Thanks!Nicholas Pagdenhttp://www.lnu.senoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-20807583721712842982016-09-07T12:02:54.924+02:002016-09-07T12:02:54.924+02:00Thank you for your reading tips Nicholas.
I actua...Thank you for your reading tips Nicholas.<br /><br />I actually haven't read Söderström's book, thank you for reminding me of it! I did read a similar book (in Swedish) ≈15 years ago about weird effects of bad computer systems (structured around the seven deadly sins). I have to look in the bookshelf at home to find it.<br /><br />The Danish text looks interesting. Perhaps over-administration is a sign of organizational aging and decreasing capacity, innovation, flexibility etc.?<br /><br />But how do you put an organisation on the psychologist's couch? I'm now thinking of re-reading Morgan's great book "Images of organization" which discusses a dozen metaphors for organisations. <br /><br />It has chapters on Organizations as Machines, Organizations as Organisms, Organizations as Brains, Organizations as Cultures, Organizations as Political Systems and Organizations as Psychic Prisons etc.<br /><br /><br /> pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-44963991292471760942016-09-06T20:59:44.075+02:002016-09-06T20:59:44.075+02:00I assume you've read Jonas Söderströms book &q...I assume you've read Jonas Söderströms book "Jävla skitsystem!" that give numerous examples of IT-systems that display the same total lack of usability as the administrative processes you mention. <br /><br />Some of the wierd behaviours that seem to emerge in large organizations remind me of the findings in the Danish article Insights into an ageing society (http://www.itu.dk/~malmborg/ID_E08/Litteratur/IAnecdotes1.pdf), for example finding ways to ritualize trivial activities so they take longer to perform, inventing new activites or attaching greater importance to core activities as a way to create "structure", and denying one's actual abilities and instead constantly trying to test one's limits. Perhaps over-administration is simply a sign of organizational dementia? :-) <br />Nicholas Pagdenhttp://www.lnu.senoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-18382624652026235902016-08-29T14:12:09.658+02:002016-08-29T14:12:09.658+02:00Haha :)Haha :)Guntehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952672790884411111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-89038249799993642142016-08-29T14:11:54.854+02:002016-08-29T14:11:54.854+02:00I think you are correct. Just look at the quotes f...I think you are correct. Just look at the quotes from doctors and nurses in Zarembas articles on swedish healthcare and NPM. School teachers in both elementary and senior high could probably also hold the pen...unfortunately.Guntehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952672790884411111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-31603838902367351092016-08-27T01:51:01.779+02:002016-08-27T01:51:01.779+02:00So I've noticed. I think the experiences voice...So I've noticed. I think the experiences voiced are if not universal, then at least widespread and spanning many professions. <br /><br />The text could have been written by many others, I just happened to be the person "holding the pen" this time around. Last time the text was written, ph.d. student and lieutenant in the Swedish Armed Forces David Bergman held the pen. Next time it will be some doctor or policeman or nurse...pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-73933997878410019752016-08-26T21:32:53.542+02:002016-08-26T21:32:53.542+02:00Well, you´re not alone! :)Well, you´re not alone! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com