Nice paper in The Village Voice about how ipod could replace mixtapes. if you met someone cool and cute, someone you wanted to know better, you might make that person a mix tape (...) Today, such compilations are an anachronism. Most stereos don't even have tape decks anymore. Countless couples wil...
[CoolTech] Social Bookmark Manager http://del.icio.us/
I like this social bookmark manager, I read few of them but I don't have time to manage both my blog and my own del.icio.us/ :( I like no sense of place or thomas angermann ...
[MyResearch] Mapping user's location in EPFL
I finally have a first prototype of what I want to show (in the first place) on my ipaq : my location (in the green part of EPFL) and the location of somebody for instance located in a car park (west part of epfl, in the upper left hand corner). Dots represent people's location. At the moment, thi...
[MyResearch] What is a complementary strategy in problem solving
As I talked previously, "Epistemic actions: physical actions that make mental computations easier, faster ore more accurate". David Kirsh claims that "sometimes the best way to solve a cognitive problem is by adapting the world rather than adapting oneself". He relates this to Backman's work about ...
[Weird] People hack furbies !
People still try to hack furbies and it works ! Check furby autopsy ! ...
[MyResearch] Cities viewed as problem solver (heuristics?)
After having a glance at The Information Architecture of Cities by L. Andrew Coward and Nikos A. Salingaros. I was wondering about the fact that they claim that "Cities can be viewed as information architecture systems". Why not now considering that if space is a resource for collaborative/distribu...
[Weird] A nice name generator
I came across randome name generator. It allows you to generate name by choosing and "obscurity factor" !!!Examples of obscure names: 1. Isreal Ambrister2. Gayle Delling3. Nathanael Klebes4. Zackary Borr5. Arlie Molinini Examples of non-obscure names: 1. Mark Hancock2. Terry Strader3. Jacob Beyer4...
[Weird] Friday Stuff
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[MyResearch] http://www.mobilecommunitydesign.com/
mobilecommunitydesign focuses on research and design information for mobile community developers. There is also an an online discussion group about this topic. ...
[Research] Cognitive Anthropology
I was wondering about how Cognitive Anthropology deal with this notion of space as a resource used in problem solving for human beings. Cognitive anthropology is a recent sub-field which focused on "cultural knowledge, knowledge which is embedded in words, stories, and in artifacts, and which is le...