Formalising the Concept of Serendipity in Web Searching by Olivier Ertzscheid, Information Science - University of Social Sciences Toulouse. In the context of traditional models of information retrieval, this presentation analyses a new emergent paradigm in web searching : serendipity, placing it ...
(Weird) Dirty Appartment Vol. 2
Via Joshua Schacter, I stumbled across a new squalor-like website that proposes pictures of a dirty appartment from people who hallucinated about their bad neighbor (a smelly guy). Here you can see: piles of stuff, the bed, a sink and the bathroom. ...
[Weird] Absolutely odd story
Read here, this seems to be written by pierre la police: Dans leur automobile, les astronautes du ventre renversent un piéton et le tuent.Ils ont peur de se faire gronder. Pendant ce temps, les habitants de los angeles portent leurs ufs à larrière de leur tête. La dernière résurrection du docteur...
[MyResearch] Mutual Modeling Evaluation
Mutual Modeling Evaluation: comparing what player A thinks what B is going to do with what B really does. ...
[Weird] Creative Spam for fabien
Still so poetic: For example, living with sandwich indicates that about vacuum cleaner secretly admire near industrial complex.from inferiority complex a change of heart about around stovepipe.If looking glass defined by teach near support group, then trombone living with returns home.He called her...
(Weird) Map of Tatooine
A cool map of Tatooine: ...
(Weird) Old French Mobile Phone
This phone is a BiBop, made by Matra in the 90s. It is really french in the sense that it only worked in Paris at that time (centralized crap-minded behavior). SInce I did not lived in Paris, I did not use it. It is not a pity because it was one of the biggest failure. ...
(Weird) Collaborative Mapping of Restrooms
Add your own is a collaborative mapping tool that aims at doing a precise cartography of Manhattan's restrooms location. You put the lcoation + your review. ...
(Research) Locative Media Communities
Locative Media Wishlist drawn after the Futuresonic workshop: Hands-on plus practical application plus interaction works well connecting canadians who didnt know each other before, in manchester "research confabs" new collaborative projects? - more time to work on the same thing a bit more virtual ...
[Prospective] I also hate Social Software
I fully agree with David Weinberger about social software. - they attempt to recreate our social network by making us be explicit about it. But our social bonds are necessarily implicit. - they make us be precise about that which is necessarily messy and ambiguous. This not only leads to awkward so...