While the ethnographer is interested in understanding human behavior as it is reflected in the lifeways of diverse communities of people, the designer is interested in designing artifacts that will …
Future fears to Innovate
Wired post an interesting article by Leander Kahney titled, Futurist Fears End of Innovation, which comments on the talk by Howard Rheingold at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and his …
Lucy Sushman talk at UTS City Campus
Lucy Sushman, who received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science last year, is doing a talk in Sydney titled ‘Embodied Agencies at the Interface’. The talk will …
Clay Shirky’s post on Social Software Politics
Clay Shirky has posted an interesting blog entry called, Social Software and the Politics of Groups, which looks at the political approaches, group experiences, and barriers to public development of …
Earth Day Event in Australia
So what is happening for Earth Day in Australia you ask? Well, there is an event on Saturday 26 April, 2003 at the Manly Mermaid Pool.
GAIN 2.0 – AIGA's Journal of Business and Design
There are some great interviews on the topic of Brand, Design and Business at the GAIN 2.0 (AIGA) website. Some of the interviews include, Elsie Maio on business ethics and …
KartOO visual meta-search engine
Simon Rutgers from PeopleSoft forwarded me this link of the KartOO metasearch engine which renders results as a visual interface. The algorithm of KartOO launches the query to a set …
Interface Festival 25-27 April, 2003
There is a media festival on this long weekend in Paddington, Sydney called, Interface. It is a student run festival with over 70 speakers from all around Australia. Interface is …
Differences between Meta-data and traditional CMS websites
There is a great article in Boxes and Arrows this week, which explains the idea behind ontologies in the Semantic Web, which is being pushed by Tim Berners-Lee. The article …
Can print be called an Information Technology?
Here is an interesting discussion I came across while reading George H. Williams blog site post on whether it is accurate to call print an information technology?
The end of Click Here
Dave Phillips from Cafedave.net has posted a great link to an article which comments on the end of the “click here” hyperlink. The article makes reference to Donald Norman and …
Voodoo declared an official religion
Voodoo has officially been declared a religion in Haiti today. Here is a report from Channel4 in the UK and CBN News. Here are also some interesting articles on Haitian …
Lev Manovich views on the Information Society
Here is an interesting article on Lev Manovich’s views on the mechanisms which move the information society. His book, The Language of New Media is the first systematic essay on …
The other future language of New Media
There is an insightful and engaging blog post by Adrian Miles on why Television and not Cinema might be the opt approach which could formulate New Media in the future. …
Black Hole discovery could change scientific idea of Spiral Galaxies
Prof. Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley and Dr. Luis Ho of the Carnegie Observatories have announced that a Massive Black Hole has been found which could …