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Meeting on Tales of Things, geo tags etc.

There is a meeting about tags, location, "Tales of Things"

http://rfidevent.wordpress.com/

If RFID is a mystery don't worry, a barcode scanner is all you need.

This meeting seems to be concerned about security and the state. Could link back to the protection science issues.

But I find the positive potential of "Tales of Things" interesting. suggest more work on the interface before some other startup takes over the ideas.

I won't get to the meeting. But the experimental city could be anywhere.

Submitted by will789gb on 26 April, 2010 - 13:20

Blog links to Tales of Things, search on "Lancaster"

My blog has an explanation of how I might work with Tales of Things.

This is a site to connect reality and online through barcodes. It may work as a map but not sure.

This can only get better, a bit muddled at the moment. 

Submitted by will789gb on 25 April, 2010 - 11:43

Tales of Things

I have started to enter places to Tales of Things

http://www.scribd.com/doc/30070961/will789gb-1

for a pdf of the view.

Aim is to connect online with real places. then discuss tech vision, critique, what to think.

Submitted by will789gb on 17 April, 2010 - 12:46

What is good about the medieval?

I am exploring the text describing what the conference is about.

In one strand, experimentation is associated with the opening up of the closed medieval universe into an open world of endless possibility. 

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Submitted by will789gb on 13 April, 2010 - 15:17

Sandbox imagines PDF in 2011

I am trying to imagine PDF around the time of Learning Technologies 2011. More in the Sandbox for Networked Learning.

Briefly, Adobe seem to be creating on a new Creative Suite mostly about Flash. PDF will come later but could be more interesting for people working mostly with text and flat pages.

Submitted by will789gb on 29 March, 2010 - 17:30

Variations on Plan-Do-Check/Study-Act

My ideas for a conference discussion seem to be in three main sections, why put energy into quality ideas, PDC/SA, and social media as an example. Not sure what this would connect with on the actual occasion but this blog can relate to others meanwhile.

I am beginning to get an idea what the conference themes may be about.

Submitted by will789gb on 26 March, 2010 - 17:45

Guardian comment on "excellence", is this what academics think?

Found this in the Guardian. Comments on "excellence" and "transparency".

If this is a typical situation it is no wonder that quality theory is rarely considered. At least that is my impression.

Finding a source for the "dark side" of mode 2 is a bit difficult. So comment such as this is a useful reference.

Submitted by will789gb on 23 March, 2010 - 18:34

Trying out Cohere, starting with a page of words

I am looking at Cohere, software from the OU to map knowledge online.

Not sure how it works, so starting with a page of text as a Google doc

Starts with whether to engage with quality or other "wicked" problems. Then PDC/SA, then social media as an example. Loops back to this sort of medium anyway.

More later on links to Cohere when I work out how to add stuff.

Submitted by will789gb on 20 March, 2010 - 16:57
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Imagined print trade show - #totalEC2

I have done a blog post on another blog about an imagined print show alongside the London Book Fair, coming up soon. The idea started with the problem that the LCC Futures Conference was upstairs from Total Print Expo but you had to walk all the way from Earl's Court 2 round to the front, up the stairs and then back again to the Cromwell Room. As real events vanish at least online they can be considered at the same time. a direct route from the equipment to the conference. 

Submitted by will789gb on 10 March, 2010 - 17:44
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Workshop 4: Ilana Lowy, ‘‘Designer babies’: embryos and foetuses as experimental objects’

Ilana Lowy (Centre de Recherche Medicine, Science Santé et Societé (CERMES), CNRS, Paris) opened her talk stating that the dream of deciding the baby has a long tradition and practical as well as emotional importance. Lowy emphasised that it is a small object by volume but very important politically. She proceeded in explaining the recent development of perfection in medically assisted reproduction as a domesticated technique in France (women try to forget rather extraordinary measures that lead to pregnancy, naturalising stress). 

Submitted by Diana on 5 March, 2010 - 13:26
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