Monthly Archives: November 2008

Dorkbot – Focused Workshop, 30Nov08, Making Noise with the Arduino

Dorkbot – Focused Workshop, 30Nov08, Making Noise with the Arduino

This month, the Arduino Cult Induction workshop series focused on sound. This morning I woke up, ate some food, and headed to PNCA, where the …

 

Measuring the Speed of Social Networks

Measuring the Speed of Social Networks

We can estimate the relative speed of social networks based on profile to response ratio. Twitter has a high profile to response ratio. Each environment and …

 

Virtual Communities and Technosocial Relationships: Omnipresence, Omniscience, and Omnipandemonium

Virtual Communities and Technosocial Relationships: Omnipresence, Omniscience, and Omnipandemonium

To ‘go virtual’ is to free the self from the weight of the flesh incarcerated by ‘heavy modernity’. Cyber Ethnologist Sandy Stone discusses the theoretical …

 

A Discussion of Haptic, Sensuous Architecture

A Discussion of Haptic, Sensuous Architecture

Information is something that we often experience with our eyes or ears, but rarely can we touch information and gain a kind response. The dearth …

 

Dorkbot presents Maxwell the Robot – Nov. 24 Meeting

Dorkbot presents Maxwell the Robot – Nov. 24 Meeting

The bi monthly DorkbotPDX meeting was last Monday, and the usual group showed up to check out what kinds of things people were working on. Anselm …

 

Here is Some Outside World Authenticity for Your Eyes

Here is Some Outside World Authenticity for Your Eyes

It is that time of year. The time when you should see some plants. You are inside, away from the outside. So with these images, I will bring …

 

Transformation and Manifestation of Analog Terminology in Online Spaces

Transformation and Manifestation of Analog Terminology in Online Spaces

Computers widen the arc of actions accessible to humans. A quick overview of all of the actions that we can do with computers is summed …