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October 04, 2008
● I quite like the final take on this matter; it emphasize a side of the often criticised web2.0 not that often underlined: the recommandation principle where you trust your friend.
Do we get the blogs we deserve? We vote by click, after all. Perhaps we shouldnt look at all those top 10 lists and Britney Spears photos. Successful blogs, such as Zen Habits, tend to balance the more fast-food type posts with longer, more complex ideas that will presumably keep readers coming back—although there are plenty of people who make a living posting dubious crap. Perhaps the escape route out of a hit-driven blogosphere is all of our newfound “friends.” The Internet has always been very good at counting page views but not so great at assigning value to whats actually in those pages. Facebook, FriendFeed, StumbleUpon, and the sharing feature of Google Reader have their annoying, nudgy aspects, but they allow us to rely on one another to sort out what is interesting and worthy. Put it on a T-shirt: Friends Dont Let Friends Read Bad Content.
How do bloggers make money? - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
(Via Design Notes)
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September 20, 2008
● Yesterday, Pierre prototyped a new project which deals with database and the use of natural language to perform some maintenance task on it, it also auto-self-documents itself. Pierre refered to it as a thin layer of manipulation (software) on top of data.
⌥ Strangely today, I was considering the object of NONE (the name of this blog where I’m posting this couple of thoughts) and found some similarities (thin layer). I’m using this directory to record things, quote, anecdotes, images, projects, things i found, things i produce. The software i’m using is a blog; it uses the (forced by blog) time based narrative to organise those things.
A collection of collections - including R-echos issue 1
∴ In a way it is a bit frustrating not to be able to deeply record the (multiple) relationships - almost automatically - of the various elements i’m posting here. Meta data are becoming crucial to organise things in a records-all environement; and i wish i could organise the objects i collected by size, or by time i saved them on my desktop, or by time i uploaded them online.
∵ In this case, by recording things online using a blog engine I’m loosing some data sets that where embed in the file itself (Mac Os X saves data like created and modified dates) - also comes the consideration that recording all the meta data about the object itself in a manual (non automated) way would require a lot of time but would certainly proove to be more effective and accurate.
↩ R-Echos for example is an attempt at collecting research and reading, interesting projects or articles we come across on the internet. Originally th system i developped was recording a lot of data, including the provenance (source, via) as a separate entry in the database. When i switched the system to a wordpress based website, this provenance information was partially lost: i kept this meta information in the content of the post (as a link at the end, starting with via) but i lost the single entry from the database.
The single entry in the database was useful in the sense that it was compute-able; i could produce meaning out of it: listing entries based on their provenanace is now a very resource intensive task if i were to develop a new Defragmentation based on the sources.
Defragmentation is a series of considerations on data sets within R-Echos
** I’m using some UTF8 characters to begin paragraphs on this post in an attempt to describe the linear relation in between paragraph. I rememeber having read about press services (like AFP, reuters) using those symbol (sometimes abstract) to convey extra meaning to news they deliver (short bits of texts, excessively factual).
*** i used the website http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ to get them quickly in my clipboard (very nice interface! from Konst & Teknik and Martin Ström).
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July 30, 2008
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How do people use products, systems and environments?
How can designers influence interaction?
How can we design for sustainable behaviour?
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research interests on the integration of mobile activities (working, learning, playing) in real-world ubiquitous environments.
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note to first slide
The title, Transcendent Interactions, refers to the goal of designing and developing software with the explicit understanding that any given interaction may exist outside the applications and systems produced. People will carry their
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a few weeks ago, while in hospital, Pierre and I were talking about a system to retrieve web document for later browsing - Piere was refering to Richard Richard Stallman’s use of the mail to retrieve documents.
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May 17, 2008
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April 12, 2008
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April 11, 2008
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A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
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Smart Archives is a rather simple WordPress plugin that will allow you to display your archives in a much “cleaner” format.
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We started Albam to make great clothes at affordable prices. Simple styles in great fabrics that you can wear everyday rather than on those rare occasions that never seem to happen. Made in UK
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April 04, 2008
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ICD (Internal Cardio Defibrillator) and email - the always on connection to the doctor for patient using an icd or a pacemaker
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‘How to Solve It’ - a résumé of the G. Polya’s method to solve problems
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magCulture features news, observations, and opinion about magazine and newspaper design. It is edited by Jeremy Leslie, author of the books ‘magCulture’ and ‘Issues’.
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The first pulsar - CP 1919 - was observed in July 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, they dubbed their discovery LGM-1, for “little green men” (a comical name for intelligent beings of extraterrestrial origin).
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March 20, 2008
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R-Echos: how to create embroidery designs using images on your computer screen.
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R-Echos: Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design.
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R-Echos: for some time, most Walker websites have been without an important branding element: a favicon.
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R-Echos: It is a simple task to control small electrical signals which are carried by the wires attached to the printer port of IBM-compatible computers.
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R-Echos: 5 years ago, the concept of working from any location seemed alien to most employers, but in todays rapidly connected world, it’s more common to find cutting edge researchers working without the constraints of 9-5 and the office life
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R-Echos: a great visualization of what the candidates are talking about
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R-Echos: An information visualization conference, the See Conference, is being held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on April 19th
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R-Echos: image of the poster found on ManyStuff
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R-Echos: Issue Magazine, another new web-based publication looking at the changing world of publishing and design
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R-Echos Custom turntables: ”
Mike Disher makes custom acrylic turntables - About 5 ye
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R-Echos Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008, Sci-Fi Author & Space Visionary: ”
Renown science
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March 19, 2008
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Bash by example, part 1 of a nice 3 part article explaining the Fundamental programming in the Bourne again shell (bash)
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The premier advertising network for reaching creative, web and design professionals, The Deck serves up millions of page views each month and is uniquely configured to connect the right marketers to a targeted, influential audience.
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March 11, 2008
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i like one liners; i like simplicity; i like twitter - what else? might be nice to combine it with the todo.txt
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nice combination of services: tumble + delicious as an automated rebloging system
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nice tool for visualising twitter ativity - i like the analogy to seismic activities
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