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Censure
Je lis sur le site de Kitetoa que les salariés de France Telecom R%D ne peuvent naviguer sur ce même site (Kitetoa). Un filtre (webwasher) en interdit l'accès. C'est magnifique de voir qu'une entreprise francaise qui se veut de pointe adopte un comportement dictarorial. La bannière est éloquente : ...
Innovation and military stuff
"one cannot understand the development of information tech, without understanding the evolution of military strategy" Paul Virilio ...
Locative x-i
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The international workshop entitled "Locative media" focusing on GPS, mapping and positioning technologies took place from July 16 - 26, 2003 at the K@2 Culture and Information Centre on an abandoned military installation in Liepaja on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The wo...
How space structure language
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I've found an interesting paper by Tversky and Lee about how spatial features are used to structure language. "In perceiving a scene, figures are not just discerned and identified, they are also located. Figures are not located in an absolute way, but rather relative to ...
Discussion avec K
Pure private discussion (sorry it's for my personal board :) 'k en attendant je lis pas mal de choses pour cette satanee literature review, et je cherche toujours une question de recherche (c rude) The big dog appears, gently grabs your message and heads for Kaspar Kaspar [at Card Guppies!] tells h...
LOCATION VS REALITY
Via doors of perception : Soon, more people will play computer games on mobile phones than on computers or consoles. One out of every three Japanese - 38 million people - already uses i-mode "to connect real to life" as an i-mode brochure puts it. "Location is no longer a barrier to fun and competi...
PHONES BETTER THAN FOOD
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via doors of perception : The average teenage girl in Japan spends, or charges to her pliant parents, a hefty $300 a month. A significant minority spends far more. The money goes about equally on three things: food; fashion & beauty products; and the mobile phone. Accord...
Literature review
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Add-on about Proximity and collaborative work
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE In the article "Managing distances and differences in geaographically distributed groups", David Armstrong and Paul Cole (in the same book by Kiesler and Cummings), add other proximity effects on work relations : - chatting in the Hall - feedback (distance blocked the co...