2003-04-24

Rolling ETCon notes


IRC log of the Gonzo mapping session
http://www.picdiary.com/~mattb/misc/gonzocollab.log
(via the Pants chump http://pants.heddley.com/ )

Mathematical modelling of families
"Every Unhappy Family Has Its Own Bilinear Influence Function"
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i33/33a01401.htm
via boingboing
[should get these guys to model the social software community]

Good morning Tesugen links:
http://tesugen.com/2003/04/24.html#rpgwritingbroadside -- looks like I should
read "Style: Towards Clarity and Grace"
http://tesugen.com/2002/04/24.html#alanwattsthebook -- Alan Watts on "Place".
Place, I think, has to be my new topic


So we're all feeling pretty mindblown after Kay, but what I said stands: if
we're so cross-discipline, and we've read our stuff, what a thought experiment
it would be to create the ideal *thing*, interface etc, and see what happens.
See what we come up with. I mean, the tech is easy -- it's all there, done
before.

It's all about constraints. This stuff is small because they design it for
*people*. We shouldn't do those other crazy abstraction layers -- we're not
going to have to port these apps to alien cultures.

These should be *good*. Cory's notes on Alan Kay:
http://craphound.com/kayetcon2003

O'Reilly with Alan Kay
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/03/alan_kay.html

And the Cartographic Congress:
http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/index.php/CartographicCongress

http://www.dollarshort.org/archives/000862.html -- believing in the weblog
medium