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Geocode your gear !
Nowaday, attaching information to real worlds stuff and gear is a trend. Projects like Aula or HP Cooltown (everything has a web page!) are a step toward this direction. Applications like tourist navigation, collaborative work or games. Geocoding is about embedding the location of an object in t...
Michel Foucault and Space
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I found a very nice text of Michel Foucault about spatiality : in english or in french. He presents how our conception of spatiality evolved. He distinguished three periods : - Medieval space: the space of emplacement (sacred places and profane plates: protected places a...
Mobile Phone SONAR !
A mobile phone is a powerful AWARENESS TOOL that can tell you the PRESENCE of somebody. Yesterday, I was wondering whether my friend Elise (who was in Italy for holidays) was back in France or not. I sent her a SMS. My Nokia Phone receives reports to tell me whether the SMS is delivered or just pen...
Week End Leisure Activities
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Job of the future
Few days ago, I presented the gragoyle/stringer job, now another trend : journalist in virtual world ! For instance, Wagner James Au is a pro games writer who's working now as an "embedded reporter", chronicling the developments in the world of a new massively multiplayer game". Via boingboing ...
SF and Science
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Europeans finally acknowledges the need to read science fiction stuff and use it to transfer/find ideas for research. For instance, the Innovation technologies from science-fiction conducts studies on technologies and concepts found in Science Fiction, in order to obtain...
Changement de saikse poissoneux
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE es poissons mâles qui se mettent à pondre des ufs ! L'information a tout du canular... Et pourtant, c'est vrai ! Les études de l'Agence de l'eau Seine Normandie (AESN) sont fort sérieuses : depuis trois ans, la population piscicole du fleuve parisien ne cesse de perdre ...
Outdoor distributed computing
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I attened a seminar at EPFL about Outdoor distributed computing. Here are few notes. Constraints on outdoor computing : outdoor adversity ! - nods are volatile and mobile (dynamic configuration) - networking is ad-hoc : unpredictable delays - location may dictate the rol...
Stick it !!!
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Gosh I think I am a sticker freak !!! Now let's put RFID tag in those arty stickers everywhere, not for surveillance but to link this with sonic project ! or collaborative drawing. Yes ! we can use the city a map where we can draw !!! Each participant select a color a...