In the context of the Kaleidoscope Network Excellence (funded by the EU), we are going to organize (here at CRAFT/EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) a conference in October 2004. One of the cool thing is that there will be a Workshop on Spatial Positioning, Group cognition/coordination and Collaborative ...
[Space and Place]
Tuneable Cities (via space and culture). All of this is about "Invisible Topographies" as explained in receiver #9: Mobile phones are not only communication tools, but also sensors of the invisible electromagnetic environment that surrounds us, making us aware of what has been called "hertzian" spa...
Now I am a Mac person
Nobody cares, it's just "une pierre blanche" as we say in french, but now I use a MAC :) ...
[Weird] Strangeattractor.co.uk is a nice magazine
If, like me, you are into weird stuff, you should have a glance at strange attractor, a very nice magazines about topics as smart as: Forgotten Musical Technologies/Conspiracy Culture/Underground Installations/Eastern Vortex/Megalithomania. trange Attractor celebrates unpopular culture. For instanc...
[TheWorld] The typical Internet user
According to a study of the World Internet Project, the typical Internet user--far from being a geek--shuns television and actively socializes with friends. News.com reports that: the typical Internet user is an avid reader of books and spends more time engaged in social activities than the nonuse...
[TheWorld] 1936-2001: vocal interfaces
coming from Digital buildings, PDF by prof. dr. Ludger Hovestadt. ...
[Research] Reading Notes about Activity Theory
(taken from Activity Theory by Liam Bannon) AT is based on Marxist philosophy and soviet psychology that consider the principle of unity and inseparability of consciousness and activity: mind comes to exist, develops and can only be understood within the context of meaningful, goal-oriented activ...
[Prospective] Urban Infomatics Breakout
Howard Rheingold's paper in thefeature about how technologies like location based services could modify urban design or architecture is full of interesting comments and ideas: - "As a modern-day nomadic hunter-gatherer, I would want to find locations of edible plants and good fishing spots." - "I l...
[MyResearch] Locative Packet
It's strange I did not blog about this locative packet thing which is tremendously interesting because of lcoation/xml/rdf/foaf :) It is about collaborative geoannotation at a Collaborative Mapping workshop at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology 2004 conference in San Diego, CA The workshop's aggregator...
[Weird] Robot Cover Art
Via Artbots: ...