It seems that Technorati now include a "endorsement" and "vote" feature! Even though it is still experimental, it's really interesting. It is close to the idea I had with roberto one year ago. It's cool to see that paths converge!The discussion in the faq adresses problem we also had: Why only for ...
[Locative Media] Pervasive and Locative Arts Network
Pervasive and Locative Arts Network is definitely something that you (we) should be part of if you are interested into locative media stuff /we do). Soundz promising, let me write my position paper. A new international and interdisciplinary research network in pervasive media and locative media ha...
[Slang] 100Gb evening
A"100Gb evening" is a term coined by Paul Baron to refer to, as he says, "events where I have discovered so many things that I want to research more" ...
[Tech/art] Version 2004 - SIMulation City, Geneva
Version 2004 is going to be held in Geneva, november 11th - december 19th 2004. VERSION 2004 SIMulation CITY follows up on the last biennial, The Inhabitable Image VERSION 2002, which delved into the perception of concrete and virtual structured space. This year’s event addresses the question of t...
[Locative Media] Crazy locative media: wherewear underwear
Via Popgadget: personal tech for women Wherewear underwear, a concept designed by Theo Humphries, sends a text message to the mate of the wearer if they are removed in a location that hasn't been pre-approved. There's also Timewear, underwear that keeps track of how long they've been off, and sends...
[Prospective] How do they envision the future?
In Metropolis Mag different designers, urbanists, and city-dwellers describe how they envision the future (worst and best case scenario). Some are quite classical but other are interesting. The future--from my limited perspective 21 ft. below sea level--is an artificial space protected from the enc...
[Space and Place] New book: Spark, Design and Locality
Spark! Design and Locality by Jan Verwijnen, Hanna Karkku offers insights into the new roles of design in planning the future of communities. It presents the Spark! project which creates and tests ideas for a new kind of community design education. It also introduces a number of projects from al...
[Research] Embodiment!?
Finally, I found somebody clarifying the very concept of embodiment. It's amazing how many papers deal with this concept without giving a proper definition. The definition is rather robot-design oriented (than an interaction design twist) but it still of interest. Despite the fact that exploiting ...
[Weird] Warhammer40K/Hello Kitty crossover
Found here, a crossover between Warhammer 40000 and Hello Kitty: "inspired by the ever cute Sanrio character "Hello Kitty" ©, Katherine wanted to bring a little color (and a bit of snappy fashion!) into the male dominated (and admitedly gothic themed) gaming world of Warhammer 40K!". ...
[Research] Trying to represent my literature review about space and collaboration
Lately, I tried to organize better all the stuff I read about the affordances of space (I think it's better to use this 'affordance' notion than always repeating "the socio-cognitive functions of space). I came with this really simple graphic: The idea is very simple; when dealing with the concept ...