Gosh, finally another web-based aggregator supports social navigation: Bloglines. That's what they say: shareyour news feeds and blogs to discover new friends and explore new communities. This is like rss4you. Which is cool, the idea is spread! BUt here it is just based on people's interest. The id...

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Gamasutra paper about alternative game controllers. This topic is very trendy since now we have a wide range of different controllers: josyticks, joypads, cell phones, tivo remote controls, keyboards... The game controllers there sparked some ideas of how they could be used for creating innovative ...

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Finally I got something about this topic! At BlogTalk2.0, Michael Schuster described stuff about SNA and weblogs. Some excerpts: Scale-free networks: people do not link randomly Link density and network-buiding as a "natural" process: some people simply have fewer links - not a problem. Power Law D...

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A webpage that compiled all the notes from Vienna's conference BlokTalk 2.0 about weblogs. ...

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Serious stuff here: completion of a phd schedule with a simple Excel Spreadsheet. ...

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Xiaodong Jiang, Jason I. Hong, Leila Takayama, James A. Landay: Ubiquitous computing for firefighters: field studies and prototypes of large displays for incident command. CHI 2004: 679-686 Xiaodong Jiang, Nicholas Y. Chen, Jason I. Hong, Kevin Wang, Leila Takayama, James A. Landay: Siren: Context-...

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It is funny to see that after an hour of throwing up bad uses of locative media, I stumbled across a slashdot post about spatial annotation comments. The news was about Urban Tapestries. Of course, the ./ geeks were very creative in expressing their thoughts: - first virtual note you will see:"call...

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Let's have a brainstorm about locative media misuses... Location-Based Services to track student who moves school furnitures, used as instrument of terror, to locate specific area to defoliate... Well, it's scary. Locative media could be so powerful that we (with fab and mirweis tried to sketch str...

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Lu ici:L’erreur fondamentale : à la base de la tendance à inférer des causalités internes plutôt qu’externes (= les gens sont responsables de ce qu’ils font et de leur sort). Voici 4 interprétations : 1- besoin de contrôle (sinon phénomène de résignation acquise). 2- éliminer le hasard des causes p...

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Read here: three would-be artists: a painting pig called Malevitch, a crafty crow named Rembrandt and a furious gang of snails: ...

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