(via), a new geo-related game: From Germany comes this nicely-done game that pits you against the computer or another human, as you each try to take over the world by doing Google queries that turn up documents localized in various parts of the world. The game uses netgeo [1] which finds the geogra...
[Tech] Passionate ethnography of power outlets situations
The NYT has a great piece about electric plugs. It is indeed le nerf de la guerre as we say in french; I mean the crux issue when you're out of you're regular living/working bubble. Every day, millions of people are finding themselves scurrying about in search of wells of electricity they can tap s...
[Prospective] Did IBM make no effort?
A Wall Street Journal columnist argues that IBM should have made an effort to innovate rather than selling its PC unit to the chinese. The author describe how they could have improved the PC. One of the option would be to deal with portability: Like many people, I have several PCs in my life--and I...
[Tech] A short history of buzzers
Boxes and Arrows on sound design. The best part of the paper is about the history of buzzers. There were many innovations in electronic sound during the early 20th century, but until the 1950s it was impractical for any product that wasn’t a radio to produce an amplified, electronically generated s...
[Research] Research Management for companies
I found a very well positioned company called Acies. This seems really appealing, the core business of this company is research promotion and management consulting: Leader in Research Promotion and Management Consulting, ACIES contributes to the development of research by promoting its knowledge an...
[Weird] Structure of chocolate unravelled with a synchrotron
There seems to be chocolate-addict research: Structure of chocolate unravelled at the ESRF A team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam, with help of the ESRF, has made a major step forward by identifying for the first time the crystal structure of one of the three main triglycerides that ...
[Future] A Classification-Based or Community-Based WWW?
I came across this interesting debate while reading a paper by Andy Oram: Two ideas, diametrically opposed in philosophy and approach, have seized the attention of Internet companies and technologists over the first few years of this century. (...) But these two ideas are attracting both money and ...
[Research]A french seminar about call-center activity analysis
On January, 20th, there's going to be a seminar about call-centers activity analysis. It will be held (in french) at Telecom Paris . * Josiane Boutet (Université de Paris 7) et Christiane Legris (EDF/GRETS) : "L'activité de travail et le travail du langage dans les centres d'appels EDF" * Lorenz...
[Space and Place] Commuter art
A nice arty project: Underground Treasures: New York City’s Subway Art by Catherine Fredman What do you notice on your way to work? Does it help you get inspired for the day? In New York, subway commuters see a diverse collection of art, thanks to the Arts for Transit program that was started in 1...
[Locative Media] geourl is back!
It seems that geourl is back from the grave: geourl reloaded! Update: after hubert's comment, I checked if it's related to geo-url and it's indeed something different did by other people (thanks joshua for the update). Update 2: Hubert found the real author of geourl.info, it's Daniel Schaller: Man...