June 2009
3 posts
SNIFTAG: Dogs can be situated, too. →
A way to:
Monitor your dog’s activity while you’re away. Keep in touch with his friends and yours. Share helpful information and pet tips online.
May 2009
6 posts
Open Data from Government →
The open data dams are breaking. An open society must have open data.
The Situated Library →
Paul Pangaro talks about designing for conversation at the first situate.us event held on May 6th in Toronto.
Mr. Wizard for the Internet age →
Bre Pettis started NYC Resistors as a refuge (perhaps even a church?) for a kind of cult of making.
This video shows the emergence of the dev swarm/community of Ruby on Rails. (via @atomiota)
Wireless Foresight →
April 2009
14 posts
re:farm the city →
newsmap →
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide...
Clay Shirky on Situated Software →
Shirky wonders if software that can scale to large demand in large markets represents an outmoded constraint. In an ecology where development costs are dropping to zero and it is easy to create and conceive single-use software: why don’t we? Which begs the question, what does a foundary for single-use, or situated software, look like?
Learning is not a process of accumulation of representations of the environment;...
– Humberto Maturana
iPhone Arphid Demo
Stewart Brand narrates the BBC series “How Buildings Learn” based on his book of the same name
Matt Jones from Dopplr takes us for a journey on the future of cities with some mobile and sensor tech thrown in for good measure.
Adam Greenfield’s talk ” The Long Here, The Big Now, and Other Tales of the Networked City” from Picnic08
Situation > Location
– Matthew Milan
This is conversation that mobile (technology) would be having if it was a...
– Michael Dila