...
[TheWorld] Les Miserable through a social software
Apparently social software is so trendy that even Victor Hugo has been hacked: this picture depicts Les Misérables' network: Source: Web site, physicist collaborations, Les Miserables: M. E. J. Newman and M. Girvan, Finding and evaluating community structure in networks, preprint, University of Mic...
(TheWorld) p-patch, urban gardens and bobos
I like this concept of urban garden (p-patch in seattle), will it be a renewal or just a bobo trend ? P-Patch gardeners show their concern for the value of fresh organic vegetables by supplying 7 to 10 tons of produce to Seattle food banks each year. Supporting a strong environmental ethic, the P-P...
(The World) Skateboarding, Richard Florida and Vancouver
Via Evalu8: Michael Gordon is a Vancouver skaterboy (...)Mr. Gordon's devotion to skateboarding runs deep. As a planner, he was instrumental in the liberalizing of local bylaws this month that made Vancouver the most skateboard-friendly city in North America. It's one of the very few big cities th...
[Weird] my online alter ego
I found my online alterego ! ...
[MyResearch] 35 ways to find your location!
Chris Heathcote's presentation at ETCON: 35 ways to find your location: a tutorial about some of the techniques that can be used to find where we are in space. He claims that in 10 years' time, there will be no concept of lost. We have many way to know where we are. He compare those methods (accura...
[Space and Place] What is Axial Analysis
Via Analyzing the effects of spatial configuration on human movement and social interaction in Canadian Arctic communities (Dr. Peter C. Dawson - University of Calgary, Canada): Configurational modeling of urban networks has become a major focus of space syntax studies. Such models are constructed ...
[VideoGames] Academics Turn to Video Games
Via Las Vegas Sun: Rejecting the stigma that games are only for kids, researchers around the world are making computer games the subject of serious academic pursuit alongside literature, music and art. They are staking out space in universities - with Ph.D. programs, research centers and online jou...
[MyResearch] Spatial Positions and multiple levels of mutuality of knowledge
A knows where A is located- A knows where B is located- B knows that A knows where B is located- A knows that B knows that A knows where B is located - A knows that B is at the library, A can infer Bs activity- A knows that B is heading to the restaurant, A can infer Bs activity- A knows that B i...
[Research] Why this enthusiasm toward collaborative mapping?
ed mac gillavry claims that There are four different developments that have led to the evolution of collaborative mapping: 1. Introduction of location-aware devices 2. Emergence of social software 3. Blogging revolution 4. Adoption of Opensource and interoperability Whereas, space.frot.org/ propose...