January 2009
11 posts
“What is necessary is a reappropriation of time. At the moment there is simply...”
– Eurozine - The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives - Geert Lovink A tribute to Joseph Weizenbaum
“The Internet is not making us stupid, it’s just making us lazy.”
– Participatory Culture and the Internet of the Masses
“Outsourcing memory and agency to an ever more seemingly controllable environment...”
– Rob van Kranenburg on ambient technology in interview with:
ulises mejias — assistant professor, suny oswego
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Top ten SL building tips by Kisa Naumova
Top Building Tips ================= 1. Use the grid 2. Change the grid settings, especially the divisions 3. Link large builds in logical sections 4. Build at right angles to the map, then rotate when done 5. Name objects as you go along 6. Take regular copies, and name them (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 etc) 7. Keep an eye on permissions, if you’re sharing a build, make sure everything is...
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“Big companies understand the importance of brands. Today, in the Age of the...”
– Tom Peters at http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/10/brandyou.html
See also http://www.slideshare.net/tijs/personal-branding-09-presentation/
“Whoever looks into the mirror of the water will see first of all his own face....”
– Jung: On The Persona
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious (1935). In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. P.43
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“An avatar is an identity container, one with boundaries. When those boundaries...”
– Meadows, M. S. (2008). I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of having a Second Life. US: New Riders.
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Typology of literary worlds
Martinez-Bonati Felix, “Towards a formal ontology of fictional worlds,” Philosophy and Literature 7: 182-195 (1983).
This article intends a universal typology of literary worlds based on five criteria: logical (determining the fictional image’s stability or instability), epistemological (whether the world evoked is realistic or fantastic), successive formal-stylistic...
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Typology of Artifacts
Wartofsky (1979):
Primary - directly mediate between humans and reality
Secondary - represent primary artifects and mediate human interaction with them
Tertiary - models defined as embdiements of purpose whose specific function is to create the future
Reference:
Wartofsky, M. W. (1979). Models: representation and the scientific understanding. Dordrecht, Holland
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Levels of collaboration
From Raeithel (1996) based on work by Fichtner (1984):
coordination - the most basic form of collaboration where poeple work towards a common goal but carry out individual tasks independently;
cooperation - a more advanced form of cololbaoration where individuals need to relate their goals to overall objectives of the collbaorative activity, be aware of the actions of their fellow collaborators...