The use of rss4you is increasing, we now have 388 registered users. It's funny that this tool is used without any media coverage or advertisement. I wish to have more times to take care of this but... It gets 8070 hits in google, that's cool for such an submarine project. ...
[Weird] New weird blog
It's been two days driedbloogers appeared on the blogosphere and I think this french-english blog really worth it! Absurd content, incredible posts, geeky crap. ...
[Weird] A nice spam map
Via waxy The following map shows where spam comes from: ...
[MyReserach] Introduction to experimental pragmatics
I. Noveck & D. Sperber eds. Experimental Pragmatics, Palgrave): Introduction How does our knowledge of language on the one hand, and of the context on the other permit us to understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, grasp both explicit and implicit content, recognize the force of a speech ...
[Weird] A good definition of geek activities
Read in 43folders: Man, nerds don't just use a computer for occasional work or to "look something up on 'The Interweb.'" They live on their laptop and take it anywhere they'd bring their wallet. They eat wireless like potato chips and crank out code for a living. They have an IM window and an IRC c...
[MyResearch] Notes from a meeting with Stefano
stefano discusses why he was moving away from clarks' theory of grounding. In sum, he said that in the pragmatic are of psycholinguistics there are 2 school:- 'code' school: derived from cybernetics/shannon. Clark is part of that - 'inference' school: sperber, wilson, lakoff, grice... The 'inferenc...
[Locative Media] A good locative media list
This list is a good summary of locative media projects. ...
[pasta] Pasta and Vinegar network with touchgraph
It's been a long time I did not play with Touchgraph. Here is the rendering obtained from a google query on pasta and vinegar: ...
[Research] Cultural differences in the CSCW world
This old paper (1994) entitled "CSCW: History and Focus" by Jonathan Grudin tackles the issue of CSCW research agenda and its history. it also shows the differences in emphasis in the US, Europe, Japan. European contributions to CSCW are often driven by philosophy or social, economic or political t...
[Weird] Ugly Costumed Super Hero
It seems that the guy dressed like Batman who entered Buckingham palace is one of those ugly-outfitted freak (picture AFP). Did he pick up his costume at Mark Newport's exhibition? ...