The Math of Text Readability: “An anonymous reader writes ‘Wired magazine has an article that explains The Law of Optical Volumes, a formula for spacing the letters on a printed page that results in maximum readability. Wired’s new logo (did anyone notice?) obeys the law. Unfortunately, Web fonts don’t allow custom kerning pairs, so you …
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Second Life To Open Source Server Code
Slashdot writes: Second Life To Open Source Server Code. This is an ”’excellent step! And ”’resonating with my [http://wiki.aardrock.com/LandONE LandONE]”’ perspective: :LandONE also results in a flurry of new and serious multi-user games, to be played on-line, on game consoles, mobile phones and media centers. These games leverage the successes of games like The Sims, …
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De macht van de massa
Ode ziet het Wiki-licht: :Van de andersglobalisten tot de Wikipedianen: zelforganisatie is het sleutelwoord. Niet doen wat je wordt opgedragen, maar doen wat je kan en wil bijdragen – voor een groter geheel. Marco Visscher beschrijft de opkomende participerende cultuur. [http://aloha.aardrock.com Aloha] is op de goede weg met haar Wiki voor het schrijven van een …
Apple to design for diabetics
Amy Tenderich writes about iPod design for diabetes care: :Why, oh why, do consumers everywhere get the most “insanely great” little MP3 player, while we whose lives depend on medical devices get the clunky stuff of yesteryear? ”’Excellent idea Amy!”’ Sure hope that Steve bites. And while at it, diabetes software can use an upgrade …
Trend Blend 2007 kaart
Zag ik vorige week bij [http://creativecommons.nl/ Creative Commons Nederland] aan de koelkast hangen. Bron: http://www.futureexploration.net/blog/2006/12/trend_map_for_2007_and_beyond.html
Information Ecology
In the same issue of the Automatiseringgids there is an interesting article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_ecology Information Ecology]—the evolotionary aspects of self-organizing information. Wikipedia alo links it to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere noosphere].
Luis von Ahn—Smart Games—Smart Software
Article in Automatiseringgids on [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/ Luis von Ahn]’s [http://www.espgame.org/ ESP Game]—a.k.a. the [http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ Google Image Labeler]—to smart tag images by human swarms. Ahn also created the spam-avoiding [http://www.captcha.net/news/ai.html Captcha]. Thank you very much Luis!
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! Now Support GeoRSS
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! Now Support GeoRSS: “Lord Satri writes ‘This week, Microsoft announced their new Live Maps, in addition to supporting Firefox on Windows for 3D, now supports the GeoRSS standard. They join Google which recently announced the support of GeoRSS and KML mapping in their Google Maps API. In short, GeoRSS is a …
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Holacracy and chaorganization on votes
As a member of the Identity Commons mailing list for several years now I find many of the organizational conversations very interesting. Especially the dialogs on principles, articles, bylaws, organization, etc. I feel compelled to contribute in some way, but force myself not to for the simple reason that I know that I cannot sustain …