2004-02-11

Notes I took yesterday from conversations:


On ambient devices that had look-closer and other stuff, to check out
CWI2000 Panel on products and elderly

Good song
Midnight in a Perfect World, DJ Shadow

There is life in clouds. Literally, bacteria. But life is a spectrum of
self-organising complexity: there is also life in the structure of clouds.

We smell our social networks, we're embedded in them. You can't objectify the
network and process it using IO (object/method), it doesn't work. Social
networks don't exist as sight objects.

Birds have an enlarged hyperstriatum (says Miko) - patterns, music. Dolphins
have more social computing brain/nuanced feelings.

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With Chris:

mw: so why don't we have underwater cities yet?
ch: because mobile phones don't work down there.
mw. that's it.

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ben: just-in-time philosophy

(I wrote my talk; my credibility took a hit.)

there was also this phrase 'social lensing' that I'm trying to pin down. Like
the social baleen, but with a triangulation metaphor instead?

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soon i'll start asking RL questions in google query language:
"ibook powerbook battery life comparison [inquisitive]"

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cars here are fluid, intuitive. driving like spaceships. (docklands designed on
CAD with a resolution of 30m.) sippey's comment about light switches and
architecture is a great measure of fluidity.

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met the guy routing rendezvous networks through buddylist:

rendezvous through buddylist

social space == physical space

it works by running an aim proxy on the local machine: it's like a high pass
filter. it sends messages along the same channel to all your buddies, but the
proxy filters the ones it deals with out and processes them itself.

that high pass filter is a really great concept, would be able to go far with
that.

(or maybe I mean low pass filter. This is what happens when I don't remember my
fourier transforms properly.)

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stuart had a really nice, recognisable story - red riding house - but all the
words are replaced by words that kinda soundalike. very cool.

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was talking to one of clay's students about some gorgeous software he's
developing that has low-bandwidth edge detection video in IM to accompany the
text conversation. it's wonderful expressive communication, and playful, and we
had a great chat about the persistence of the group as an entity, and all about
social distance and what separates people or brings them together.