#Anthro

National Geographic is doing a year long analysis of the world’s population and put together this fantastic animation reel on what it actually means to be a typical human being on our tiny little planet of seven billion souls. Really well done.

I know NatGeo gets a bad rap from anthropologists due to its exoticism of the Other, but I have to admit it was seminal to my childhood and sense of far off places when I was growing up. Looking forward to their series.

Great article on the anthroplogy inspired design and implementation of the Joel Spolsky ’s free social question and answer site Stack Overflow< which allows highly technical questions to be asked by its users and answered by its community.

Some great anthropological insights for all social software in the video but read the article as well. Love their nine building blocks of social engineering.