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 …
30 Nov
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 …
30 Nov
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 …
29 Nov
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 …
29 Nov
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 …
29 Nov
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 …
Monthly Archives: November 2008