Worldmeters
Here’s a handy little data source, probably fun for webscraping and visualizations: http://www.worldometers.info/. Thanks to Kristin O’Friel for the link.
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Making Things Talk at E-Tech
Brian Jepson and I will be giving a workshop on Making Things Talk at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference in the first week of March this year. It should be a lot of fun. We’ll be teaching participants to make a physical game controller for a networked game of pong. The controller is a variation on some of the projects in the book, and should enable a very special activity that’s not always seen at E-Tech…
September Travels
In a couple of weeks, I’m off to Innsbruck and Berlin. I’m excited, since I’ve never been to Austria or Germany, so that alone will be worth the trip. In Innsbruck, I’ll be attending the 9th annual conference on ubiquitous computing (aka ubicomp). I’ll only be there for the Sunday, to co-host a workshop on ubiquitous sustainability with Jen Mankoff from CMU, and Allison Woodruff and Jay Hasbrouck of Intel Research. In Berlin (Potsdam, really), I’ll be attending a fritzing workshop run by Prof. Reto Wettach and André Knörig of the Interaction Design Lab at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany. Should be a good time. Anyone I know in Berlin who’s got time to visit, let me know.
Technorati Tags: conferences & workshops, personal
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
“Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks” (Mark Buchanan)
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393041530; © 2002
Similar subject matter to Barabási’s book, but more generalized, and written from a science journalist’s point of view.
Technorati Tags: environment, infrastructures, networks, philosophy, sociology
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility” (Stewart Brand)
©Basic Books; ISBN: 0465007805
A series of essays centering around work on the Clock of the Long Now Foundation and Library. Useful for thinking in the extremely long term, and a good contrast to the usual pace of thinking and writing about technology.
Technorati Tags: cities, environment, law, networks, philosophy, infrastructures, religion, sociology
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
“The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World” (Lawrence Lessig)
Vintage Books: ISBN 0-375-72644-6 ©2001
An excellent examination of the clash between the open-ended architecture of the early internet and the property-centric legal system in the US. Lessig puts forth the idea of the internet as an “innovation commons”, and explains how current attempts to extend copyright and tighten intellectual property law threaten that commons.
Technology Grant News
Technology Grant News - sources for funding for projects
Technorati Tags: art, grants & funding
Nixie Clocks
Here’s a great page on all kinds of Display and Counting Tubes, including several sets of instructions on building your own displays using them.
More clocks based on Nixie Tubes
Clocks and wristwatches based on nixie tubes
Here are a few more.
Thanks to Mike Sharon and Jamie Barnett for the links
Technorati Tags: art, electronics, clocks
