Last fall I stumbled across an article about the technology behind Microsoft Photosynth. Today I found a nice little video (that apparently had been hiding under my nose on YouTube) demonstrating how the system works. You can also see another demo here from the TED site. Besides being entirely cool in what it does with [...]
Electronic Visualisation & the Arts Communicating the uses and implications of electronic visualisation in culture and the arts MONDAY 9th JULY – FRIDAY 13th JULY 2007 Full three day conference programme with six workshops http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/ * REGISTER NOW * Venue: The London College of Communications, University of the Arts London Monday 9th July – Workshop 1: [...]
Both Perian and I travelled to AAM last week and it tripped up our Metaverse Friday schedules a little. Now that we’ve gotten the good news that Holly has been rescued from her basement I thought I’d address some of the issues raised by HET (Holly’s Evil Twin). HET is concerned that new virtual spaces [...]
An interesting project from Carnegie Mellon! “About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. [...] What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into “reading” books.” http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html I wonder if Musematic could participate? Best, –Paul
“Gone are the days when visitors are happy looking at animals and matching them with the information on the sign boards.” http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKSIN15180520070523 Excellent! –Paul
Hi kids, Sorry it’s been awhile since my last post. The evil twin gagged and duck-taped me to the hot-water heater downstairs and it was weeks before I could bribe the cat to tell my husband where I was (now where am I going to find 300 fresh salmon, a sturgeon, with roe, and a [...]
Don’t just complain about standards! Participate in making the standards that you need! Having served on several standards and best practices working groups, it is often frustrating how little commentary your receive during the writing and development stage. Then when you think you’re all done or the standard is finally put into some fixed form, [...]
OK, OK it’s Saturday. I spent most of yesterday in an aluminum tube hurtling through the stratosphere and couldn’t muster the energy to post this yesterday. A report from the road. I’ve spent the last week in San Jose at the Association of Computrer Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computer Interaction (SIG CHI) (Link [...]
If you are in a generally upbeat mood I suggest you stop reading this entry right now and do something entertaining. May I suggest viewing Starveillance’s coverage of Paris and Nicole’s big fall-out if you haven’t yet seen it http://www.flixya.com/paris-and-nicoles-big-fallout. For those of you still silly enought to read on, it’s been a looonnnng month [...]
Ever since Museums and the Web a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been mulling over a conversation I had with someone at the Exploratorium reception (please introduce yourself again if you’re reading! I’ve a stack of business cards from that evening, and I should really learn to slow down my wine intake…). We talked about [...]
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