links for 2008-04-22
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"define convergence as the tendency of technologies, as they grow in complexity and scope, to overlap (and consolidate) functions [...] trend wherein devices and functions take on commonly shared traits [rather than] a single multifunctional mega-device"
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"I was the next animator on Ollie’s desk the following Monday [...] used for decades to create so many indelible animated moments [...] I noticed the pencil sharpener was full of shavings. Instead of throwing them out I poured them into a glass jar"
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"A Design System for Interactive Fiction Based on Natural Language"
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Carl Steadman's 1994 "Two Solitudes originally appeared as a series of e-mail messages sent between the two participants, with carbon copies sent to the piece's audience", a project for/on http://www.intertext.com/magazine/
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"Make requests in public for UK government information"
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Phil on the social pains of applications that force you into explicit, declarative living. (Dopplr's approach is the only one close to polite I've seen, mainly because it's about giving not receiving.)
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GMP has a facebook app with police news and appeals. Bravo.
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And is being downplayed by the Home Office unsurprisingly. Not good.
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The problems of pathological measurement cultures.
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"OpenStreetMap now has an ‘Export’ tab, joining ‘View’ and ‘Edit’ at the top of the screen. It gives you an instant way to get the map data in a format you want."
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