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Re: Global map of digital inclusion

Paul B. Hartzog — 2008-05-13T18:26:13

I have often used unusual and/or innovative maps in my lectures, such as this projection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall-Peters_projection One of my colleagues here in Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, Mark Newman, has recently gained some notoriety producing very interesting cartograms: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cartograms/ also http://www.worldmapper.org/ -p On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:42 PM, marcus bastos public.gmane.org> wrote:

open source camp in asia pacific

zanny begg — 2008-05-13T02:23:32

Re: Global map of digital inclusion

marcus bastos — 2008-05-13T03:42:18

Facebook Connect

Paul B. Hartzog — 2008-05-12T18:53:13

Despite my published debate with Trebor on re-public.com, I don't post to this list as much as I would like, but I read it all :-) would love to hear the responses to this: http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2008/05/facebook-connec.html -p -------------------------------------------------------- http://www.PaulBHartzog.org http://www.panarchy.com PaulBHartzog-7lFj1AqXA4o//qWGUlMLlQ< at >public.gmane.org PaulBHartzog-UTe/sXjMr1tWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org PHartzog-63aXycvo3TyHXe+LvDLADg< at >public.gmane.org -------------------------------------------------------- The Universe is made up of stories, not atoms. --Muriel Rukeyser See differently, then you will act differently. --Paul B. Hartzog --------------------------------------------------------

Re: Global map of digital inclusion

Tati Wells — 2008-05-12T14:25:43

Global map of digital inclusion

giselle beiguelman — 2008-05-10T22:47:21

an introduction

Phillip Thurtle — 2008-05-04T17:01:12

Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City

Mark Shepard — 2008-05-02T20:53:41

Hallo iDC, It's been almost two years since Trebor introduced the discussion leading up to the symposium on Situated Technologies convened in October 2006 at the Urban Center and Eyebeam in New York. Without doubt, your input played a critical role in framing the key questions we attempted to address at the symposium surrounding the social, cultural and political implications of ubiquitous/pervasive computing for the architecture of urban space. The Architectural League of New York's commitment to sustaining this discourse has resulted in a series of pamphlet-length publications, published via print-on-demand (POD) and available as a free PDF download from http://www.lulu.com. We look forward to releasing the second pamphlet by Usman Haque and Matthew Fuller in the (very) near future. This summer look for a double issue on Situated Advocacy, with contributions from Natalie Jeremijenko / Benjamin Bratton and Laura Forlano / Dharma Dailey. In an attempt to test ideas generated throu

Re: iDC Digest, Vol 43, Issue 2

Engin Erdogan — 2008-05-02T16:46:06

Re: User Labor

Sam Ladner — 2008-05-01T18:47:51

Happy 1 May...

Matthew Buckingham — 2008-05-01T16:25:57

...and greetings to the list from an avid iDC 'lurker' passing through Berlin. Best, Matthew Buckingham

Re: User Labor

Peter Timusk — 2008-05-01T16:13:23

Interesting I have started to develop a protest DTD file a few years back for recording protest events. It should still be here http://www3.sympatico.ca/ptimusk/protest_dtd.html On 1-May-08, at 7:59 AM, Burak Arikan wrote:

User Labor

Burak Arikan — 2008-05-01T11:59:37

Shirky's Here Comes Everybody and Leadbeater's We-Think -"social tools" and the state

pat kane — 2008-04-13T12:41:40

Yahoo AMP - and Open Advertising Network

Emre Sokullu — 2008-04-07T21:34:20

Re: please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

Danny Ayers — 2008-03-27T18:32:35

Re: please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

Paul Prueitt — 2008-03-27T17:21:17

Re: please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

Danny Ayers — 2008-03-27T13:27:33

Re: please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

Danny Ayers — 2008-03-18T18:19:05

Agreed. Strongly agreed. Usually, yes - even simple publication of documents on the web can be difficult, if best practices are followed (i.e. using the specs). If you add RDF to the mix, it gets significantly more difficult. Plugging my own material again I'm afraid, but I argued this at [1]. But I don't think this because the stack is wrong per se - just that typically the developer is led into using the technologies at an inappropriate level of abstraction. The basic conceptual models *are* simple (the graph model of RDF particularly so), but they get obfuscated when you've got one eye on the programming language and the other on the bytes down the wire. I don't have an answer to what are more appropriate abstractions (my best guess would be a very dumb version of old-AI agents), but am optimistic such abstractions will emerge as people gain experience in working with the stack. The Web is still very young, the Semantic Web only barely sprouting. In what sense? The Web has scaled using the same bas

Re: please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

Danny Ayers — 2008-03-18T17:58:43

On 17/03/2008, subbies-YT1W8xiRTFfeLfp1DXzbRq1XeNYF76dU< at >public.gmane.org This seems a very good summary of the current position (although I'm still very optimistic about the level at which computers can help humans - smart sifting...). When I first got into computers I was seriously naive in my expectations for near-term AI. But I'm not actually disappointed in the progress that's been made - we might not have the autonomous agents serving our every need just yet, but we have something almost certainly comparable in terms of benefits. The net and especially the web is a huge step forward in augmenting our abilities, individually, as communities, and hopefully as a species. Doug Engelbart seems to have got something else right ;-) Cheers, Danny.

Re: if AI were a reality, which, currently, it is not

2008-03-17T17:48:15

Two points: One: Actually, we don't disagree about the likelihood of AI becoming a reality. We disagree about *why* it is unlikely to become a reality. I disagree with the physicality argument. Unless you believe in magic, it seems that the gist of that position is that people can *experience* - ie, they have senses and their existence in space and exposure to things - via their senses - informs their ability to comprehend the information they come across. This is the only thing that separates them from machines. I don't believe in magic, and I don't believe it is impossible to replicate the senses (as to the latter point, I suspect pattern recognition is more than enough to accomplish this feat). Instead, I believe that there is nothing mystical about humanity, or special about the senses, but that what makes us human is simply our complexity - an extremely non-trivial problem, especially when tackled using concrete logic. If nothing else, people are successful at being people in thei