I like Edward Tufte's point on presentations. One of his reader asks how to make presentations: techniques, handouts, display technologies.In your discussion you seemed to have a dislike for using Microsoft's Power Point. Is there an alternative software package for presentations? Of course the guy...
[Tech] Decentralized RSS feeds to fix the bandwidth problem?
Read in teledyn At the top of the webstats, the smoking gun: 30,000 requests for the Drupal-generated RSS feed from teledyn.com (...) The way RSS is to work, everyone subscribes to a small file on your site. The critical word there is ‘everyone’. (...) Herein the black hole of RSS: If your feed wor...
[Space and Place] Google Zeitgeist: Popular Country Queries
I am still wondering why France ranks first in Google Zeitgeist 2004 Popular Country Queries ? ...
[Research] Lab experiment versus Field study to evaluate mobile computing
J. Kjeldskov, M.B. Skov, B.S. Als and R.T. Høegh (2004)Is it Worth the Hassle? Exploring the Added Value of Evaluating the Usability of Context-Aware Mobile Systems in the Field(.pdf): Evaluating the usability of mobile systems raises new concerns and questions, challenging methods for both lab and...
[Weird] Artificially stimulated religious experience
Via the economist: PEOPLE with temporal-lobe epilepsy are prone to religious hallucinations. Two decades ago, this finding led Michael Persinger, a neuropsychologist at Laurentian University in Canada, to try stimulating people's temporal lobes artificially, to see if he could induce a religious st...
[Book] The Zenith angle
After reading Bruce Sterling's last bookI was wondering whether it a great one or just one of the clancy-like novel you read in the hall of a railway station. I have always been a great fan of sterling's work but this book is a bit different. First because sterling does not tell us a story about th...
[Prospective] Battelle's predictions for 2005
John Battelle's predictions for 2005. Among all, I find some interesting (or, I consider those as possible with regard to my current knowledge): 2005 may be a more fractious year in the blogosphere : We will have a goat rodeo of sorts in the blogging/micropublishing/RSS world as commercial intere...
[Prospective] Battelle\'s predictions for 2005
John Battelle's predictions for 2005. Among all, I find some interesting (or, I consider those as possible with regard to my current knowledge): 2005 may be a more fractious year in the blogosphere : We will have a goat rodeo of sorts in the blogging/micropublishing/RSS world as commercial intere...
[The World] What about cell phone booths?
Via Mobile research forum newsletter, the fortwayne gazette: Phone companies in the US have eliminated more than a million traditional pay phones in the past eight years, many of them in phone booths. Now, some restaurants, libraries and other businesses are slowly bringing back phone booths, witho...
[Research] Locative Media effects on the City
Antony Townsend's take about locative media and its effects on urbanism. Really interesting. Thomas also point us to other claims. a clear understanding of the implications of locative media, good or bad, is unlikely to emerge soon from research and observation. The problem is simply too complex f...