For all of you, like me who happen to like the most exquisite book of Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One hundred years of solitude", the map of Macondo has been drawn by the Class of 2004 at St. Stephen's Episcopal School Houston: ...
(Life) 10% of my brain, 25% of my hardware
Wednesday, 3-24-2004. Even though it's totally wrong that human beings does not used more than 10% of their brain, I have to admit that I don't use more than 25% of all the software and devices I have :( ...
(Prospective) How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web
A fictional scenario about Semantic Web by Paul Ford: August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web. The idea is that RDF (Resource Description Format) will be widely used in the near future. This could hence enable google to become a global marketplace and beat ebay and Amazon a...
[Prospective] Thomas Malone on Organizations of the 21st Century
Global Business Network proposes a conversation with Thomas Malone about how he envisions organisations of the 21st Century (in his new book The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life). Malone believes that over the next few ...
[Tech and Weird] Karaoke Culture
For people who are into Karaoke or for others like me who are just curious about social phenomena: Karaoke Culture by Cyril Fievet: Karaoke is a Japanese word. It comes from kara, short for empty, and oke, the abbreviation of okesutura, meaning orchestra. This empty orchestra is thus a ...
[Prospective] Things a cell phone cannot do
Via Japan Media Review, a short list of things a cell phone cannot do nowadays: 1. Adjusting according to the atmosphere We wish cell phones could detect the atmosphere and adjust to it, in cases such as lectures, wedding ceremonies and funerals. There are always people who forget to turn off cell ...
(Research) Playing video games together... with only one pad
At the ACOSTIC seminar, Christian Heath talked about people's behavior in museum exhibits. Paul Dourish makes an interesting parallels with people's behavior in video game arcades (participation...). That makes me think of what I wanted to do at DokiDenki: studying children playing video games (one...
(MyResearch) CSCW Seminar in Paris
I am currently attending a CSCW seminar in Paris (ACOSTIC, the agenda is the following: Paul Dourish (University of California, Irvine), Jacques Theureau (IRCAM), Christian Heath (University of London, King's college). Running notes here ...
(Prospective) Battle of the living room: consoles or PC?
NYT about the so-called 'battle of the living room': who is going to win: PCs or consoles. Consoles might win but since video games are a driving force for innovation and growth on PC, this may cause problem to PC makers... It seems that the lately digital convergence converges to a digital diverge...
(Prospective) From bluejacking to toothing
You all remember the bluejacking thing? The new trend according to Wired News is the 'toothing': the Brits are engaging in "'toothing,' where strangers on trains and buses and at bars and concerts hook up for clandestine sex by text messaging each other with their Bluetooth-enabled cell phones or P...