In Annecy, France there this nice shop where you buy cheese, whose boss has Gay as a name... ...
[Space and Place] Eco-container in Geneva
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[Prospective] Freegan: a step toward bruce sterling's distraction proles
Accoridng to newsday (via), a freegan is: "Freegan" comes from the term vegan - a person who does not eat meat or animal products for health or ethical reasons. Freegans take it one step further by eating food thrown away by stores and restaurants, to avoid waste and limit their impact on the envi...
[MyResearch] Few thoughts after a meeting with Stefano
I should try to find a model of coordination that articulate:- the difference between activity/action(problem solving level) - the coordination mechanism for each level (activity: clark's coordination key; action: malone and crowston's 3 dependency mechanisms) Having this could be helpful to discri...
[TheWorld] The Russian government has approved the Kyoto protocol.
Well, that's a good news... ...
[Research] Preparation of our workshop
We bought some cutting edge material for the workshop about spatial awareness and technology we organise next week: ...
[Research] Bartlett MSc Virtual Environment Blog
The MSc Virtual Environments at Bartlett School of graduate studies now has a blog. I am looking forward to read what they deal with. The MSc/Graduate Diploma Virtual Environments (VE) explores the realm of virtual environments–the creation of functional digital desktop, "augmented" and immersive s...
[Life hack] A new office configuration
Here is my new office configuration: the biggest screen is used for communication (I run AIM on ichat, MSN and a MOO). The laptop screen is devoted for the current task: ...
[Research] New paper
I just finished the revised version of a paper submitted to Journal of Multimedia, Tools and Applications. It is called "Collaboration in a Multi-User Game: Impacts of an Awareness Tool on Mutual Modeling". It's actually my masters thesis (ouch ended 2 years ago). This paper presents an experimenta...
[Prospective] Optimizing Individual and Public Interests in Information Technology
RAND reports are always worth to have a glance (and more). I recently read Project Libra: Optimizing Individual and Public Interests in Information Technology (.pdf) by Edward Balkovich, Tora Bikson, David Farber, Robert Kraut, James Morris, Peter Shane, Joel Smith, CP-477, 2004. This document desc...