Today, I met a guy who always carry a digital camera in order to take pictures on a regular basis: about what he is doing, what he is reading (if it is worth)... and then he has a personal knowledge manager. ...
[Space and Place] Tracking Traces of Fire
(Via near near future) traces-of-fire is an art project based on a nice concept: "tracing the movements of ten cigarette lighters tagged with transmitters to provide location and motion data frequencies." Tracking the lighters and collecting position data is achieved with the help of transmitters n...
[Research] How the Army works
Interesting bunch of resources concerning military stuff: Army Field Manuals. ...
[MyResearch] ANOVA not suited for the analysis of intragroup
Very interesting point by JAN-WILLEM STRIJBOS in his paper THE EFFECT OF FUNCTIONALROLES ON GROUP EFFICIENCY: Using Multilevel Modeling and Content Analysis to Investigate Computer-Supported Collaboration in Small Groups: it is important to note the implications of nonindependent observations with ...
[TheWorld] DorkBot: "People doing strange things with electricity"
"People doing strange things with electricity" is the motto of Dorkbot. This groupd of people (localized all over the world) organize meetings where everybody can present electronic art projects. According to the New Yorker: Dorkbot was founded by a young man named Douglas Repetto, who teaches comp...
[TheWorld] Bilderberg in Italy on june 3rd
Thursday the next Bilderberg meeting will be held at Hotel des Iles Borromees - Corso Umberto I, 67 - 28838 Stresa - ITALY The meetings now take place by informal rotation in countries of the Atlantic community. Some 100 or more attend, by invitation of a steering committee. The meetings happen on...
(Research) Rheingold on Location Blogging
Location Blogging (i.e. location-tagged blogposts for instance) is some serious stuff we are all concerned at our lab (especially Patrick and Mauro). Howard rheingold, in the feature is wondering about whether or not it is going to take off. Will location-tagged recommendation services emerge from ...
(Prospective) Use real world detective against spammers
A nice example of overlap between the virtual world and our physical world is this story told by the NYT: the use of real world detective to find virtual world spam. Sterling McBride spends a lot of time waiting for spammers to make a mistake. (...) When he hunted down escaped prisoners for the Uni...
(Tech) Research about blogs
Blog Survey: Expectations of Privacy and Accountability by Fernanda Viégas, 2004 Here we report the findings from an online survey conducted between January 14th and January 21st, 2004. During that time, 486 respondents answered questions about their blogging practices and their expectations of pr...
(Research) Good Event: Social Capital: forms of interaction
Nice event: Social Capital: forms of interaction at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. I hope there will be some note put on the web :) This group exhibition brings together contemporary artists who make the complexities of social relations the subject, material, or form of their work. Respond...