Sunday, September 30, 2012
The Abyss Observatory Designing for Remote Collaboration, Self-directed Discovery and Intuition Development in Multi-User Interactive 3D Virtual Environment
The Abyss Observatory Designing for Remote Collaboration, Self-directed Discovery and
Intuition Development in Multi-User Interactive 3D Virtual Environment , by
Hajime Nishimura-- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC),
Kenneth Y T Lim---National Institute of Education, Singapore, Koji Koyamada---
Kyoto University, Center for the Promotion of Excellence i
Intuition Development in Multi-User Interactive 3D Virtual Environment , by
Hajime Nishimura-- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC),
Kenneth Y T Lim---National Institute of Education, Singapore, Koji Koyamada---
Kyoto University, Center for the Promotion of Excellence i
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Rethinking Virtual Space as a Place for Sociability: Theory and Design Implications
Marisa Ponti and Thomas Ryberg
Group Membership and Diffusion in Virtual Worlds
David A. Huffaker, Chun-Yuen Teng, Matthew P. Simmons, Liuling Gong, Lada A. Adamic
School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
David A. Huffaker, Chun-Yuen Teng, Matthew P. Simmons, Liuling Gong, Lada A. Adamic
School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Ryberg, T., & Ponti, M. (2005). Constructing Place: The Relationship Between Place-Making and Sociability in Networked Environments. Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., Svendsen, B., & et al (Eds.), In: Theoretical framework on selected core issues on conditions for productive learning in networked learning environments. Aalborg University/Kaleidoscope. (Kaleidoscope Deliverable; No. 24.3.1.).
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, By David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Websites as graphs
"Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the "View source" tab somewhere in your browser's menu.
HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at.
I've used some color to indicate the most used tags in the following way:
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags"
"Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the "View source" tab somewhere in your browser's menu.
HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at.
I've used some color to indicate the most used tags in the following way:
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags"
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, By David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Quality analysis of the website of the cybernewspaper VilaWeb, by Iglesias García,M. and González Díaz, C.
Quality analysis of the website of the cybernewspaper VilaWeb,(2012) by Iglesias García,M. and González Díaz, C. Hypertex.net
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
How Microsoft conquered China
Or is it the other way around? Fortune's David Kirkpatrick goes on the road to Beijing with Bill Gates, who threw his business model out the window.
By David Kirkpatrick, Fortune senior editor
July 17 2007:
Or is it the other way around? Fortune's David Kirkpatrick goes on the road to Beijing with Bill Gates, who threw his business model out the window.
By David Kirkpatrick, Fortune senior editor
July 17 2007:
Monday, September 3, 2012
The Global Innovation Index 2012
Stonger Innovation Linkages for Global Growth
Soumitra Dutta, INSEAD
Stonger Innovation Linkages for Global Growth
Soumitra Dutta, INSEAD
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Computer Attitude of Teaching Faculty: Implications for Technology-Based Performance in Higher Education
Computer Attitude of Teaching Faculty:
Implications for Technology-Based Performance
in Higher Education
Josephine A. Larbi-Apau and James L. Moseley
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Implications for Technology-Based Performance
in Higher Education
Josephine A. Larbi-Apau and James L. Moseley
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Pure Data
Pure Data
Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.
Pd is free software and can be downloaded either as an OS-specific package, source package, or directly from CVS. Pd was written to be multi-platform and therefore is quite portable; versions exist for Win32, IRIX, GNU/Linux, BSD, and MacOS X running on anything from a PocketPC to an old Mac to a brand new PC. Pd can run on smarphones thanks to projects like libpd and RjDj. It is possible to write externals and patches that work with Max/MSP and Pd using flext and cyclone.
Pd was created to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max paradigm with the core ideas of allowing data to be treated in a more open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of audio and MIDI, such as graphics and video.
It is easy to extend Pd by writing object classes ("externals") or patches ("abstractions"). The work of many developers is already available as part of the standard Pd packages and the Pd developer community is increasingly growing. Recent developments include a system of abstractions for building performance environments; a library of objects for physical modeling; and a library of objects for generating and processing video in realtime.
Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.
Pd is free software and can be downloaded either as an OS-specific package, source package, or directly from CVS. Pd was written to be multi-platform and therefore is quite portable; versions exist for Win32, IRIX, GNU/Linux, BSD, and MacOS X running on anything from a PocketPC to an old Mac to a brand new PC. Pd can run on smarphones thanks to projects like libpd and RjDj. It is possible to write externals and patches that work with Max/MSP and Pd using flext and cyclone.
Pd was created to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max paradigm with the core ideas of allowing data to be treated in a more open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of audio and MIDI, such as graphics and video.
It is easy to extend Pd by writing object classes ("externals") or patches ("abstractions"). The work of many developers is already available as part of the standard Pd packages and the Pd developer community is increasingly growing. Recent developments include a system of abstractions for building performance environments; a library of objects for physical modeling; and a library of objects for generating and processing video in realtime.
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