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
WatchiPhone Arphid Demo
WatchStewart Brand narrates the BBC series “How Buildings Learn” based on his book of the same name
WatchMatt Jones from Dopplr takes us for a journey on the future of cities with some mobile and sensor tech thrown in for good measure.
WatchAdam 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