New wiki location, and a cry for help…. I’ve been playing at reestablishing wikis using our spankin’ new server we bought for our instance of CAREO, and set up a new location with the beginnings of a stylesheet. Still very much a work in progress, though I’m hopeful… [Object Learning] from the comments: Hey Brian, […]

April 15 16, 2004 University of Surrey, England The rapid adoption and diffusion of mobile devices over the past decade has transformed the way information is generated, organized and communicated about individuals and their lives. The construction of new mobile data profiles and of mobile, informatic selves, hold the potential to transform what is organizationally […]

The Distributed Library Project lists the personal …. The Distributed Library Project lists the personal book, movie, and music collections of participating users. You log on, find somebody near you with something you want, make contact, and borrow it from them. Apparently it launched in April, in the San Francisco bay area, and now has […]

Great Mammon's Organisms. Is the GM Food Business trying to nobble independent scientific inquiry? Scientists on the UK Government's GM Science Review Panel, say they have been threatened and bullied to provide pro-GM opinions.(Meanwhile Tony Blair is reigning in his zeal for GMO's, it seems for entirely political reasons.) [MetaFilter] this is the sort of […]

Future of Software. Always On has a three-part interview with Sun's Jonathan Schwartz (Parts 2 3). I like his interview because he elucidates his points very well. Some of his comments on the future of software: I think [the software industry of the future] will look more like Hollywood than like Microsoft. Because the single […]

Michael Simkin posted this to the Cultstud-l list the other day and i just took it. as an acknolwedged critic of Sokal and Bricmont, having 'allegedly' laughed so hard milk came out my nose when a colleague told me in a very serious tone that they certainly grasped the issues at the heart of the […]

now i know money disappears, but i also know that money doesn't disappear in this amount without someone getting fired in a major way. think of it as losing twice the annual budget of the United Kingdon. this is worse by far than reagan era scandal, much much worse.

Dyke to open up BBC archive. BBC boss Greg Dyke plans to give the public full free online access to the corporation's archives. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] this is a good thing, first the ibm archives as noted by Matt a while back and now the bbc.

Utopian Architecture. Ever wonder what Utopia might look like? So have 300 years of Russian architects. [MetaFilter] I remember that a few years ago there was some movement about documenting the 'crisis' architecture movement in the former u.s.s.r. (i don't know if it was called crisis, but it was building things to look like they […]

New blog: netwoman. It's not often that I come across blogs about gender and technology, but here is a new one: Netwoman by… [GENDER & COMPUTING]