• My Mac Chrome is having serious memory and CPU usage issues even after I quit. Taking up 99% of CPU and 1 Gig of disk. Had to kill it. #
• If someone gave you the support to do anything you wanted for 1 year, what would you do? #1yrprj #
• RT @kyejusung will make library,building for an orphan because this is my end of goal in my life #1yrprj #
• 1 year: RT @hellodeibu: Been asking myself a very similar question lately. Will get back to you once I figure that out ;) #1yrprj #
• 1 year: RT @enamu: I'll go to the refugee camp at Mesot with @hiiocks, to help the children to use internet. #1yrprj #
• A friend @ysin told me, he knows when I am not busy by looking at how many tweets I post. He must not be busy himself to notice that :-) #
• Been using a new twitter client: itsy. It's a tiny, minimal and thoughtfully made. Mac only. http://j.mp/8MiOsL Thx @youngdoo #
• I'm done. #
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• 특히 감사드리고 싶은건 이중식교수님 – You've always been nothing less than a best friend. 그리고 같이했던 UXLab 팀원들. Thank you~ #
• 특히 감사드리고 싶은건 이중식교수님 @joonlee8 – You've always been nothing less than a best friend. 그리고 같이했던 UXLab 팀원들. Thank you~ #
• Today is my last day at 서울대 융합과학기술대학원. Monday I start a new job at Daum Foundation leading their non-profit tech initiatives. #
• Thank you 융대원 UXLabTeam @joonlee8 @GirlfromB612 @moonsung_kim @acidbanana @sweetpaprika @clitee @monologistnet @soundyoon @gamjavas @ziotoss #
• 축하해주신 분들 감사합니다: @channyun @valzit31337 @kaidomo @myditto @sue_park @enamu @clitee @ziotoss @monologistnet @gamjavas @pd4web #
• 이제 Foursquare 융대원 시장자리도 물러서야 겠네요. ^^ Good luck @acidbanana #
• 아이폰 한글 키보드에서 쌍자음이 있는 자음 키를 오래 누르면 쌍자음 옵션이 나오네요. (예: ㅂ을 누르고 있으면 ㅂㅃ옵션이 뜬다). ㅂㅈㄷㄱㅐㅔ 가능하네요. More tips: http://bit.ly/cmNU9Y #
• 땡큐땡큐. 선물도 넘 고맙습니다. @GirlfromB612 박남호 선생님, 앞으로도 많은 활약기대할께요 :) http://yfrog.com/7gzxlkj #
• Social innovation & new media 수업 박성연 @Crevate 대표 creative shower 특강. 분위기 좋습니다~ http://twitpic.com/19hf02 #
• Thanks for the congrats @hellodeibu @seouldaddy @erik_bm #
• 금일 축하해주신 분들 감사합니다: @masilbyul @sungkunx @easter86 @4season_santa @asadal @netstrolling @ajakim @alwayschoi @hskang @ncloud #
• 금일 축하해주신 분들 감사합니다: @moonsun_ @narang1917 @geenie3 @ejang @pengdo @leechanglim @bonieworld #

• "User Experience for Good" session slides at @UXCampSeoul http://slidesha.re/drW4nH #uxseoul #
• Lunchtime distraction. TheLXD at TED2010. Dance like you've never seen. http://on.ted.com/8Ba4 #
• Just helped someone from Mountain View, US with a question about *tract home* …on Aardvark! http://vark.com/t/6a5bea #
• I see snowflakes. #
• Google Improves Its Translation Tool http://nyti.ms/bAc8WV [via NYT] Head-to-head translation comparison: http://nyti.ms/bGCY7X #
• Explaining Google Apps Marketplace http://j.mp/aZjArm [via FC] #
• The Internet Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize: http://bit.ly/dxnBx9 #
• 연세대 건축과 설계실에서 불이 났네요. 헉. http://bit.ly/c8JEhP #
• Seoul receives UN HABITAT award http://bit.ly/dqdkxc for Nanjido, Cheonggyechun and affordable housing for low-income households. #
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• 한국 KAIST팀이 Wired 기사로 나왔네요. Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants http://bit.ly/bTJ7bD [thx @markwhiting] #
• A new way to browse massive amounts of information on the web. TED2010: Gary Flake http://on.ted.com/8C0L #ux #
• http://translate.google.com/ ㅎㅎ RT @img75 'ㅇ' 혹시 한국어버젼도 지원하실 수 있나여 ㅋㅋㅋ #
• James Cameron (director of Avatar) at TED2010: http://bit.ly/ceXuG3 "Failure is an option, but fear is not." #
• Good Luck!!! RT 양수인 @ysin: 드디어 물과 불 (눈/비 예보 + 화재) 의 재난을 뚫고 내일 예정대로 파티를 진행하기로 확정이 났습니다… 코딱지 만한거 하나 하는데 굉장한 roller coaster ride를 경험하네 #
• Lunchtime distraction: http://bit.ly/b9jPbH PixieTea – Music video made from iPhone apps. #
• This is one clip I want to show my kids. Bobby McFerrin is simply amazing. http://on.ted.com/8C2v #
• I learned there are 2 meanings to the word "social". One is "living together" (society), the other is "in relating" (socializing). #
• "Social-ism" is the first meaning, "Social media" the second. #
• Sometimes those who do the first don't do a lot of the second. #
• But that seems to be changing. The two meanings are coming closer together tied by the word "awareness". #
• We are more deeply and initimately aware of what goes on in this world than ever before. Not "mediated", but "immediated". #
• Thus services like twitter are not "social media" but "social immedia" because they bring us immediately in touch with others. #
• The Internet of Things http://bit.ly/aWtwCf [via McKinseyQuarterly] More objects are embedded with sensors and able to communicate. #
• RT @SSIReview: Are nonprofit delivering? It's time to reset our approach to outcomes and find out: http://ow.ly/1isYD #
• Social Innovation & New Media 수업 웹사이트입니다: http://snucreative.tumblr.com 뉴미디어/소셜비디어를 활용한 사회혁신 관련 좋은 자료있으면 알려 주세요~ #
• Someone once asked me, if you were to do a Ph.D, what would I do it in? My reply: I wouldn't. I'd apprentice with a master carpenter. #

• 저없이 뭔가 진행되고 있는 것 같은데, 뭡니까? RT @sue_park: @VOX_ZACK @kiheonshin님은 아쉽게도 지금 밀라노에 있고요.. @namho님 함께 하는 거 완전 찬성합니다. ^-^ ㅋ #
• "State of the Internet" in 4 minutes. Video. Fun. Info overload. http://bit.ly/dcSMsK [via FC] #
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• Designing Vancouver 2010 (slideshow): http://bit.ly/dxu9Vd Did not know the medals were created from recycled computer parts. #
• Funding innovation in education: STARTL Backed by Gates, Hewlett, MacArthur Foundations and IDEO among others. http://bit.ly/bdopxy [via FC] #
• Started using http://BackupMyTweets.com #
• 저도 나왔네요 ^^ RT @TaijinJung @UXCampSeoul 행사 기사가 정글에 실렷습니다. 부끄럽게도 제사진과 제 발표모습이 제일 처음에;;ㄷ ㄷ #uxseoul http://bit.ly/cMbEng #
• Norway despite being a country with less than 4 million wins tons of medals. The reason? NYT: The Hard and the Soft http://nyt.com #
• Correction: Norway has a population of 4.7 mil. Compare that with Korea with 48.5 mil and the US with 300 mil. Rank 4 with 9 gold. Amazing. #
• 드디어 내일이 서울대서 social innovation & new media 첫 강의 시작. 새로운 기대감이 느껴집니다. 이미 올해는 새로운 기회가 많이 열리는 한해인 것 같습니다 @snucreative #
• Norway's gold medals. "The Hard and the Soft" NYTimes op-ed: http://j.mp/aOPM5m #
• Starting a class tomorrow at Seoul Natl U on "Social innovation and new media". Partnering w 4 Korean nonprofits to brainstorm solutions. #
• How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement: http://bit.ly/cpSRTb #
• RT @joonlee8: UXcamp 끝내고 흐믓해하시는 박남호 쌤 http://twitpic.com/16ocxw #
• A milestone in child development: my 8-yr old daughter makes daddy a latte (not a real one) #
• Just helped someone from Brighton, UK with a question about *iPhone* …on Aardvark! http://vark.com/t/6904d9 #

Snow in Seoul

Seoul saw the heaviest snowfall in recorded history today. Make you realize how short “recorded history” actually is. We got about 24-25cm of snow.

Tried for a couple of hours to make it to work on this first working day of 2010, but public transportation was a mess. Gave up after a couple of hours and took the day off to take picture and have fun with the kids.

More photos.

On November 20, 2009 I made a presentation at ChangeON, a conference focusing on non-profits internet media, hosted by the Daum Foundation, the charitable arm of the Korean internet portal, Daum Communications. They just posted the video online.

My presentation (in Korean) was entitled “UX for Good”, focussing on how internet technologies and social media benefit non-profits, with 4 stories to illustrate how some non-profit organizations in the US are using the internet to their advantage.

The examples include:

• CARMA.org, a site dedicated to monitoring carbon emissions from power plants and providing citizens with tools to take action.
• Ask Your Lawmaker where users can post questions they want to ask lawmakers, visits vote on the question and reporters get the answers and post it back to the site.
• DonorsChoose.org connecting classrooms in need of small funding for activities with donors across the US.
• Ashoka’s Changemakers, global, open-sourced competition site which taps the community of social entrepreneurs to generate ideas for social change.

These are all work I was either directly involved in or made aware of when I was at Forum One Communications in Washington D.C.

Also check out all the other great presentations at the ChangeON conference (in Korean). Especially inspiring where the presentations by Jung Jin Ho of Yahoo! Korea, Park Woong Hyun of TBWA Korea, and Pyo Chul Min of WizardWorks.