2003-04-23

Rolling ETCon notes


http://www.blackbeltjones.com/loft873/Pages/Image9.html -- lego based emergence
simulation thing, plugging in inputs and outputs

Sketches:
. the sound of keyboards like rainwater, or masts at a marina
. furtive chest glances trying to read namebadges
. BA using two pilots. i need to talk more about this

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/001434.html
"The first two sessions of the Emerging Tech conference raised the issue: What
should technologists be doing to keep the Net free and content open?"

etcon chump:
http://www.peerfear.org/chump/etcon/

the death of the password
http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=121121&
liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=13&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1
via, on a government spin
http://www.diverdiver.com/egovblog.html#200188684

GIS notes
http://www.crystalflame.net/archives/000050.html
Intriguing: "Key point: Maps are a narrative."

More notes
http://www.pobox.com/~dnm/etcon2003/biocomputing.txt
http://www.pobox.com/~dnm/etcon2003/gnuradio.txt

best coverage
http://www.kottke.org/etech2003/

so i'm trying to think what the basic problem we're solving at this conference
is, like last year it was secret properties of successful emergent technology.
i think maybe the scaling/ reading problem here. how do you deal with enormous
amounts of data? location as a first cut? latent semantic indexing? ants to
find trails? hm.

Just got this from mjones:

codec/codex/polis/personae meaning the city. we are not feeling space, we're
understanding it - cf. gaston bachelard: poetics of space, dr. simon unwin:
analysing architectureafter terrawarms's datarate workthe software we use to
compress/decompress the city eperience what do we lose/focus/keep/combinewhy do
codecs and codex become 'personified'visiting a city - with a friend, visiting
a native, exploring with a native, exploring with a guide. continuum of
codecs/codexless spatial, more sematics - nodes and arcs if you're with a
native guide - spatial first principles if you are on your own. build build
build. build your clusters, built from nodes, mr becks maps - nodes and arcs
but hides the clusters, hides the spatial/semantic blur - teleporting not
trravelling. the image of the city - kevin lynch: 1963the human city codec.we
build our cities and they shape us, and we continue to shape them - but the
middle percepieving of the shape is diff - depending on your codex, which
adapts to your circumstances, social and envirnomental. social, more
negotiable...

Matt Locke:
http://www.test.org.uk/archives/000423.html
"The case for 'local' metaphors"
even though it's about DRM, this is completely what it's all about
embeddedness. maybe this is the year ETCon realises *quite* how bit the world
is.

So many cool things to do with blogposts. We need them in some kind of
centralised YET local system. NNTP. Again! Good for reading, and good for
having a copy to place about with.

Notes on Gonzo mapping with lots of see alsos:
http://www.windley.com/2003/04/23.html#a574

Good! Themes from the conference,
http://erikbenson.com/index.cgi?node=Notes%20from%20Emerging%20Technology%
20Conference%202003

Various unrelated links:
http://www.iaslash.org/node.php?id=7347 -- web navigation magazine
http://freshmeat.net/projects/synergyosx/?topic_id=122 -- iTunes controller in
the menubar
http://bitworking.org/news/XHTML___XForms___XLink___Xanadu -- xhtml, xforms,
xlink leading to xanadu, but this is a bad thing, via diveintomark.org


Some interesting stuff on Kevin Marks' weblog:
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2003_04_01_epeus_archive.html#200186448
"A while back I mentioned Pinker's 'Blank Slate' in response to one of Chris
Locke's missives, and Stavros offered to explain the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. He
did so today, in great detail, along with fascinating commentary on Korean
grammar and society, and how different forms of words are used depending on who
one is talking to. I still think Sapir-Whorf is a load of tosh, but this seems
to be a consensus now (unless Simon, Dorothea and Akma want to wade in).
I would agree is that previously heard or read language shapes subsequent
utterances. Philip Hensher talks of the long linguistic shadow cast by the King
James Bible."

...which leads to:
http://www.emptybottle.org/glass/003234.php
which I'm going to have to read, but haven't yet.