Links 2008-05-06
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“We aren’t writing, we are speaking in text.”
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“… the kids decided I should have a Webkinz, so I could come over to visit their homes.” — Read that again.
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“A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania is made of modules that can recognise each other.” — Be like the internet!
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‘Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out. — The economy is globalized, but defense is not globalized,” says Coleman. “How do you reconcile the two?’ — Hehe
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‘”The idea is that we live in the museum as their guests, and at the same time we are hosting lice on our heads,” said artist Vincent Grunwald, 23.’
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“The MACS project does not attempt to get robots to perceive what something is, but how it can be used…. the cognitive theory of ‘affordances’… focuses on what a thing or environment enables a user to do.”
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“Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world. Truly an epic drama, written in our DNA.”
Links 2008-05-02
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“A feature length documentary about the Free Kevin movement and the hacker world.”
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“People come to see themselves as the sum of their distributed presence on the windows they open on their screens… cycling through computer windows has become a way to think about the relationships among aspects of the self.”
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“Freefall (7%): Lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and don’t like criticism, or extreme situations.” — Kinda
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“Identify your first order objects and make them addressable” — REPEAT for the marketeers out there. Identify your first order objects (Product) and make them addressable (RFID). That includes tubs of margarine!
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Lifestreaming plugin for wordpress
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“#1) A physical object responds to or visualizes data from the network. #2) Interacting with a physical object allows people to change data stored in the network.
#3) A physical object acts as a sensor that writes to the web of data.”
Books Read — April 2008
- Play Money by Julian Dibbell
- Everyware by Adam Greenfield
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick
- Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
- Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate
- Improv by Keith Johnstone
- Subject to Change by Adaptive Path
Johnny Lii
Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.
The New Brand of Creative
Links 2008-04-30
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“Here’s a list all the revenue models you can find in the media industry, all based around a core of free or almost-free content”
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“When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give mommy a special gift.” — Gotta love Microsoft for trying this.
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“Here’s something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken… four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment.. they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.”
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“I’m looking to get “g33k” tattoo’ed on my wrist using this, any redundant bits that can be missed will help” — Haha. Cutter!
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“Design thinkers like to wax lyrical about the elegance of their strategic thinking as a form of design in its own right. They can keep it— in 2108, if there are museums then, no one will queue to see a strategy.”
We’re Going To…
We’re going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, “If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?” And I’m betting the answer is yes.
— Clay Shirky on Cognitive and Social Surplus
Age of Conversation 2008
I’m drafting my paper for the amazing Age of Conversation project.
This is what I’m writing about:
A New Brand of Creative — With the changes in the way that people communicate and collaborate online, marketing and advertising companies are needing to reach out and work with a new type of creative team. What do these “creatives” look like. What are their skills? Why do they evangelize digital and new media? And what are the challenges that they face?
Yeah, why do they evangelize digital so? And what do we mean by digital, anyway? Yochai?
The New Creative. As Dino said, such a vast topic. It could go so many ways. I mean, Larry and Sergey are surely the two most ‘creative’ people working in advertising and marketing right now. They created — and are creating — the gift that keeps on giving (and taking).
Maybe it’s just a question of ‘digital creativity’ being only the creation of those things that can scale - should scale. It’s an exponentials thing: distributed, disruptive, and in the end, completely disproportionate to the initial input. Hmm… Sounds a bit like fame.
Anyway, small pieces loosely joined…
The Age of Conversation 2008 — The Authors
Adam Crowe, Adrian Ho, Aki Spicer, Alex Henault, Amy Jussel, Andrew Odom, Andy Nulman, Andy Sernovitz, Andy Whitlock, Angela Maiers, Ann Handley, Anna Farmery, Armando Alves, Arun Rajagopal, Asi Sharabi, Becky Carroll, Becky McCray, Bernie Scheffler, Bill Gammell, Bob Carlton, Bob LeDrew, Brad Shorr, Bradley Spitzer, Brandon Murphy, Branislav Peric, Brent Dixon, Brett Macfarlane, Brian Reich, C.C. Chapman, Cam Beck, Casper Willer, Cathleen Rittereiser, Cathryn Hrudicka, Cedric Giorgi, Charles Sipe, Chris Kieff, Chris Cree, Chris Wilson, Christina Kerley (CK), C.B. Whittemore, Clay Parker Jones, Chris Brown, Colin McKay, Connie Bensen, Connie Reece, Cord Silverstein, Corentin Monot, Craig Wilson, Daniel Honigman, Dan Goldstein, Dan Schawbel, Dana VanDen Heuvel, Dan Sitter, Daria Radota Rasmussen, Darren Herman, Darryl Patterson, Dave Davison, Dave Origano, David Armano, David Bausola, David Berkowitz, David Brazeal, David Koopmans, David Meerman Scott, David Petherick, David Reich, David Weinfeld, David Zinger, Deanna Gernert, Deborah Brown, Dennis Price, Derrick Kwa, Dino Demopoulos, Doug Haslam, Doug Meacham, Doug Mitchell, Douglas Hanna, Douglas Karr, Drew McLellan, Duane Brown, Dustin Jacobsen, Dylan Viner, Ed Brenegar, Ed Cotton, Efrain Mendicuti, Ellen Weber, Emily Reed, Eric Peterson, Eric Nehrlich, Ernie Mosteller, Faris Yakob, Fernanda Romano, Francis Anderson, G. Kofi Annan, Gareth Kay, Gary Cohen, Gaurav Mishra, Gavin Heaton, Geert Desager, George Jenkins, G.L. Hoffman, Gianandrea Facchini, Gordon Whitehead, Graham Hill, Greg Verdino, Gretel Going & Kathryn Fleming, Hillel Cooperman, Hugh Weber, J. Erik Potter, J.C. Hutchins, James Gordon-Macintosh, Jamey Shiels, Jasmin Tragas, Jason Oke, Jay Ehret, Jeanne Dininni, Jeff De Cagna, Jeff Gwynne, Jeff Noble, Jeff Wallace, Jennifer Warwick, Jenny Meade, Jeremy Fuksa, Jeremy Heilpern, Jeremy Middleton, Jeroen Verkroost, Jessica Hagy, Joanna Young, Joe Pulizzi, Joe Talbott, John Herrington, John Jantsch, John Moore, John Rosen, John Todor, Jon Burg, Jon Swanson, Jonathan Trenn, Jordan Behan, Julie Fleischer, Justin Flowers, Justin Foster, Karl Turley, Kate Trgovac, Katie Chatfield, Katie Konrath, Kenny Lauer, Keri Willenborg, Kevin Jessop, Kris Hoet, Krishna De, Kristin Gorski, Laura Fitton, Laurence Helene Borei, Lewis Green, Lois Kelly, Lori Magno, Louise Barnes-Johnston, Louise Mangan, Louise Manning, Luc Debaisieux, Marcus Brown, Mario Vellandi, Mark Blair, Mark Earls, Mark Goren, Mark Hancock, Mark Lewis, Mark McGuinness, Mark McSpadden, Matt Dickman, Matt J. McDonald, Matt Moore, Michael Hawkins, Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Michelle Lamar, Mike Arauz, Mike McAllen, Mike Sansone, Mitch Joel, Monica Wright, Nathan Gilliatt, Nathan Snell, Neil Perkin, Nettie Hartsock, Nick Rice, Oleksandr Skorokhod, Ozgur Alaz, Paul Chaney, Paul Hebert, Paul Isakson, Paul Marobella, Paul McEnany, Paul Tedesco, Paul Williams, Pet Campbell, Pete Deutschman, Peter Corbett, Phil Gerbyshak, Phil Lewis, Phil Soden, Piet Wulleman, Rachel Steiner, Sreeraj Menon, Reginald Adkins, Richard Huntington, Rishi Desai, Beeker Northam, Rob Mortimer, Robert Hruzek, Roberta Rosenberg, Robyn McMaster, Roger von Oech, Rohit Bhargava, Ron Shevlin, Ryan Barrett, Ryan Karpeles, Ryan Rasmussen, Sam Huleatt, Sandy Renshaw, Scott Goodson, Scott Monty, Scott Townsend, Scott White, Sean Howard, Sean Scott, Seni Thomas, Seth Gaffney, Shama Hyder, Sheila Scarborough, Sheryl Steadman, Simon Payn, Sonia Simone, Spike Jones, Stanley Johnson, Stephen Collins, Stephen Cribbett, Stephen Landau, Stephen Smith, Steve Bannister, Steve Hardy, Steve Portigal, Steve Roesler, Steven Verbruggen, Steve Woodruff, Sue Edworthy, Susan Bird, Susan Gunelius, Susan Heywood, Tammy Lenski, Terrell Meek, Thomas Clifford, Thomas Knoll, Tiffany Kenyon, Tim Brunelle, Tim Buesing, Tim Connor, Tim Jackson, Tim Longhurst, Tim Mannveille, Tim Tyler, Timothy Johnson, Tinu Abayomi-Paul, Toby Bloomberg, Todd Andrlik, Troy Rutter, Troy Worman, Uwe Hook, Valeria Maltoni, Vandana Ahuja, Vanessa DiMauro, Veronique Rabuteau, Wayne Buckhanan, William Azaroff, Yves Van Landeghem
Links 2008-04-29
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“Exposure in terms of disclosing information of course, but also exposure in the way that a trader might think of it - a vulnerability, a risk associated with taking a position that could, potentially, result in loss or harm.”
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Give a starving man a fishing rod and he’ll make a social network about it.
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“Digital is about grooming data - sifting, expanding, performing and refining, the relationships between things in abstractions that defy the premise of spoken/written languages. Excitement must be fluid. Mess is Lore.”
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“What ‘will power’ do characters and scenes of movies that, don’t exist, have?” — Transmeddling!
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On the correct usages of the terms Brand Experience, Experience Design, and User Experience.
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Blah on blah thoughtcrime. THIS WARN YOU.
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“The idea of BuddyPress is to take a standard vanilla installation of WordPress MU and turn it into something that represents more of a community building tool, or niche social network.” — <3
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“… yip-yip-yip like chihuahuas when anyone else touches the powerpoint template.”
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“children develop their observation skills by doing many types of activities [including the] use of the five senses, kinetic movement, spatial refinement, small and large motor skill coordination, and concrete knowledge that leads to later abstraction”
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“Gucci, an 18-month-old pomeranian, is a fluffy ball of fun who loves walks in the park. And he can be your dog - for a price - as part of a new service renting out canine companions.” — Pets or Toys?
Links 2008-04-27
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Christopher Caldwell: “I also begin to understand for the first time what an addiction is… It’s a desperate need to simplify. An addiction is a gravitation towards anything that plausibly mimics life while being less complicated than life.”
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“Given that MMORPGs are creating environments where complex work is becoming seductively fun, how difficult would it be for MMORPG developers to embed real work into these environments?” — Renting out capitalism at $25 per month. Grim.
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“The Wids(tm) are here to support each other, and to discuss the trials and tribulations of living in Real Life while our loved one is immersed in EverQuest. EQ players recovering from compulsive game play are welcome to the forum.”
Links 2008-04-26
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“… technology should sensitive, thus able to give psycho-sensorial feedbacks (a subliminal message) and indirect response (touch and feel). … skin as a wonderful sensor: it’s an electronic network, a protection barrier, a temperature regulator, etc.”
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“…the magnet works by moving very slightly, or with a noticeable oscillation, in response to EM fields. This stimulates the somatosensory receptors in the fingertip, the same nerves that are responsible for perceiving pressure, temperature and pain.”
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“It’s one small step for hand, one giant leap for keyless entry.”
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“Kevin has carried out a series of pioneering experiments involving the neuro-surgical implantation of a device into the median nerves of his left arm in order to link his nervous system directly to a computer…” — Also advocates geo-chipping kids.
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“Adorned in titanium, latex, silicone, and electronic apparatus, isa becomes Psymbiote: the conceptual terrain at the collision of bodies and machines, the mutation of her own identity through transformation of the body.”
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“An intra-uterine device is a birth control device also known as an IUD or a coil. It is a device placed in the uterus and is the world’s most widely used method of reversible birth control.”
Kipple
