Category: miscellany
Self Assembling Robots
These are small robots that have the capacity to self assemble into ‘architectural’ forms. This is a very big change, and while we can get all whatever about tech determinism the key thing... Read More
Black Boxes, Algorithmic Decisions
Nice article in The Atlantic on recommendation algorithms and those that rely less on social endorsement than automatic other things. The important thing is the bias that systems always exhibit, and t... Read More
Specular (Not Speculative)
Lauren on the ‘specular economy’ which is not only about how we think we want to present ourselves but also how extensive networks now are. If as we saw with Kevin Bacon it is easy to get ... Read More
Blogs, Opinion, Knowledge
Opinions, argument, the university and the coffee house. Read some interesting things in the blogs about the blogs and the encouragement of opinion and reflection. These are good conversations to have... Read More
All the Faces on Facebook
Have a look. This is what happens when we make networks of bits and loose connections. Services are porous to each other, so someone could make a service that pulls this data from over there, and does... Read More
Video and Niki
How to get video into Niki.... Read More
Hypertext Documentary
Denham is interested in interactive documentary . Won't go into this much here but this is what Integrated Media One does, well, at least we make hypertextual online video works that are nonfiction.... Read More