A call for paper that might lead to something I'd be interesting to read/work on: call for papers for the first Mobile Communication Research Annual. In conjunction with Transaction Publishers and a distinguished editorial board, we are requesting submissions in the area of "The Reconstruction of ...
LIFT06: X. Comtesse on the new economy (2006)
Xavier Comtesse's talk is about how the new economy is following a new trend: it's based on ordinary people who are now what can be called 'consumactors'. It's basically a neologism based on consumer and actors or consommacteur in french; it expresses the fact that consumer are now ‘actor’ of the s...
Bruce Sterling at LIFT06 + Blogject Workshop
Well it seems the whole lift06 conference is doing fine. I am very happy of Bruce Sterling's keynote about spimes and the new ecology of things. The reason why I say so is because it really wrap up in a very down-to-earth idea what we - as lab researchers - might are expecting. The spime concept as...
Bio-hijacking by terrorists
Could Terrorists Hijack Your Brain? is a good paper by Emily Singer which deals with this potential fact: technological advances in the not-so-distant future may make it a possibility. Most bioweapons research has focused on traditional biological agents, such as anthrax and smallpox. But that focu...
Random Lift Quotes
Since I am too busy handling things for LIFT06, I just managed to reach my mac for typing few quotes: "Lost for example is designed as a video game although it is a tv series. There is the creation of a virtual space that makes people react and try to figure out and decrypt." Bruno Guissani "A came...
Lift06!
Today and tomorrow I am at LIFT 06 as an organizer so I am note sure whether I would manage to do both organization/supports and blogging, time will tell. ...
Pigeons that blog
Food for thoughts for the workshop about "blogjects" and the internet of things, these pigeons bloggers are curious. I think I saw it already at Regine's place but Julian reminded me of this because it's close to the blogject idea. It's a project by Beatriz Da Costa: PIGEONBLOG provides an alternat...
Be careful with Lego Mindstorms
A friend of mine has been arrested yesterday in a train in Germany. He was basically playing/programming LEGO Mindstorms during his way in the train. The cops said he was suspected to prepare a bomb and then had to answers some questions about the material he was carrying. After few hours, they rel...
Cyworld control room
Doing some research on Korean virtual communities, I ran across this picture of South Korean Cyworld (taken on Wikipedia): Cyworld (Korean: 싸이월드) is a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications, a subsidiary of SK Telecom. Literally translated, "Cyworld" means "relationship worl...
del.icio.us and digital marketing
A BW article about digital marketing Del.icio.us could be extremely useful for his business. Wiredset helps entertainment companies develop their digital strategies. By following the tags for a band, Ghuneim could let a record company know the level of buzz after a radio interview or live performan...