The architecture of data-rich public spaces. I looked out the window this morning and was greeted by a six-story-high image of George Bush. I was in Times Square, on the 19th floor of a hotel, facing the brobdingnagian information display that ascends and wraps around the Reuters building. Movies like Blade Runner conditioned us to […]

Monk update. Monk has discovered the basic concepts of multiplication. This is amazing to me (although it should not be, considering what… [Full Bleed: Confessions of a Zine Girl] children are amazing, and unschooling is quite important, i am consistently amazed at what some people think they know from school….

Towards open services. SOA (service-oriented architecture), we agree, is the way of the future. We'll build loosely coupled Web services now and wire them up into composite systems later. The benefits are clear: scalability, OS and language neutrality, easy integration. But as “later” starts to resolve into a date like 2003, or 2004, it's also […]

Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies: “The point of an argument is to give reasons in support of some conclusion. An argument commits a fallacy when the reasons offered do not, in fact, support the conclusion. ” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] While knowing all of these probably would not have helped me in […]

TIPPING POINT CRIB SHEET: For those of us that only manage to read the first 100 pages of important books, Robert Paterson's weblog has a FANTASTIC overview of the Tipping Point.  [Michael Helfrich's Radio Weblog] A very good book and a nice synopsis. [A Man with a Ph.D. – Richard Gayle's Weblog] Hmm, this is interesting, have to […]

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CALL FOR PAPERS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TPRC Presents The 31st Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy Hosted by the Center for Technology and Law George Mason University Law School Arlington, Virginia Friday, September 19 to Sunday, September 21, 2003 www.tprc.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TPRC presents this annual forum for dialog among scholars and decision-makers from the […]

Call for Papers: What Do We Know About Innovation? A Conference in Honour of Keith Pavitt SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research Freeman Centre University of Sussex Brighton, UK 13-15 November 2003 Scientific Committee Giovanni Dosi, Chris Freeman, Ove Granstrand, Stan Metcalfe, David Mowery, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Pari Patel, Luc Soete, William Walker. […]

EXTENDED DEADLINE Travel support is expected thanks to the National Science Foundation.Ê Please indicate when submitting abstracts if you need travel support. Call for Papers: Graduate Student Conference The Local and the Global: Contexts in Science and Technology April 12-13, 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science Headquarters Washington, DC Abstracts due by February […]

Confronting Empire. Confronting Empire “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness  and our ability to tell our own stories. […]

So what I'm working on right now is a cut down of my paper for DAC in Melbourne. I went to the one at Brown two years ago, and it was quite fun. The paper is about the political ontogenesis of vision in computer games. which means, in short, that the visual experiences in computer […]