Archive for December, 2003
PortalVisualizer
Wednesday, December 17th, 2003
In my contribution to the TECFA informative art contest, I finished the first part of the implementation of my PortalVisualizer which was to gather all the data and create a valid model. I have a very basic viewer which displays contributions and interactions by historical periods within a postnuke portal. Aspects of a portal community can be visualized: its growth (with ups and downs), the roles (community leaders, outside contributors, newbies, …) and the social interactions. The goal now is to transform the viewer into an “portalart” visualizer (the John Madea way).
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Monday, December 15th, 2003Great Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas quotes as watched yesterday:
- As your attorney I must advise you that you’ll need a very fast car with no top and after that, the cocaine. And then the tape recorder, for special music, and some Acapulco shirts…
- Getting hold of the drugs and shirts had been no problem.. but the car and tape recorder were not easy things to round up at 6:30 on a Friday afternoon in Hollywood.
- Where’s the ether? This mescaline isn’t working.
- Did the mescaline just kick in? Or was that Debbie Reynolds in a silver Afro wig?!
- Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel… total loss of all basic motor skills; blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue
- Bazooko Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This was the Sixth Reich.
Staging the Contemporary
Sunday, December 14th, 2003Night at the Toni Molkerei, Züri
Sistema Administrativo en Andalucia
Thursday, December 11th, 2003L’apprentissage, Etat d’Echec Provisoir
Thursday, December 11th, 2003Jean-Michel Meys au séminaire CRAFT: l’apprentissage se fait par une suite d’essais/erreurs donc d’états d’échec provisoirs.
Howard Dean and Community Tools
Wednesday, December 10th, 2003Howard Dean use of community tools is getting into mainstream. Howard Stern spent a good 5min this morning on the social life around the Dean campaign. He, of course, emphasised on how much it was a great opportunity to hook up with chicks (as it grew into a dating inferno) ![]()
Improving the Survey Research
Wednesday, December 10th, 2003Polls in the media but also in research can be very missleading. In a talk at Harvard, Gary King (David Florence Professor of Government) offers help in addressing two critical problems in conducting survey research: how to measure complicated concepts and how to ensure that respondents understand the intent and meaning of the survey questions.
Frenglispañol
Tuesday, December 9th, 2003Le Frenglispañol est la communication post-jcvd en français con strong references to english y español




