Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I learnt an interesting notion last week-end : Invisible College. It describes a community that shares an interest in a common subject or discipline and communicates informally about it. The "college" is made up of generally around 100 individuals who function as the sch...
dks' comments on my report
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I saw dks last week, we talked about my report (socio-cognitive uses of space..."). Few points : - dans mon intoduction, mettre en avant à quoi sert le document - mieux discerner viruel versus non-virtuel. - en conclusion, mettre en avant les points critiques pour la col...
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Je viens de lire sur le blog de pierrot : "Dans la rue, le plus dur est de trouver son chemin. Les japonais ne donnent pas de nom aux rues sauf pour les artères principales. Le système de numérotation est assez compliqué. Même les japonais s y perdent !! Heureusement, le...
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE dans son post du 15-09-2003 me crédite d'une ressource intéressante sur les natels, j'en rajoute donc :) Un autre très bon site rassemblant plutot des références : http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Enalinik/mobile.html and http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC10020/mobile...
Phone and place
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Nalini P. Kotamraju, and the Incite, at the University of Surrey works on a project concerning mobile phones and teenagers experience of place, including its boundaries. "As with other mobile technologies, the notion of place is key in investigating young peoples use o...
Nomadism (53)
A tourist from America paid a visit to a renowned Polish rabbi, Hafetz Chaim.He was astonished to see the rabbis home was only a simple room filled with books, plus a table and a bench. Rabbi, asked the tourist, where is your furniture? Where is yours? replied Hafetz Chaim. Mine? asked the...
Liminality
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via Line Ulrika Christiansen : "Liminality is described, when dealing with architecture, as the conceptual momentary relationship between people and spatial environments. It refers to transitional space; neither one place nor another, rather a third space in-between. It ...
Deleuze and Guattari on space
"...every point is a relay and exists only as a relay. A path is always between two points, but the in-between has taken on all the consistency and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own (...) sedentary space is striated, by walls, enclosures, and roads between enclosures, while nomad s...
How to measure Spatial Coordination
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Spatial Coordination could be measured with its outcome : a success correspond to the fact that participants among a group could stay out of sight for long periods and can link up again as soon as they wish. Variables to take into account : - group dispersion (distance b...
Via AFP :"Cameron Jones, un barman australien féru de mathématiques, a découvert par accident que faire pousser des bactéries sur un CD pouvait donner à l'écoute des résultats surprenants, dignes des DJ les plus déjantés. La spécialité scientifique de Jones est de comprendre comment les signaux se ...