Het [http://www.noetic.org/ Institute of Noetic Sciences] heeft een prachtige website met vele nieuwe inzichten en baanbrekend werk klaargezet op [http://www.shiftinaction.com/ Shift in Action]. Tot eind 2007 staan daar vele artikelen, videos en podcasts om niet beschikbaar. Eat your heart out. Met een paar verhelderende en prettig verstorende video’s van Deepak Chopra. #[http://www.shiftinaction.com/discover/videos/chopra/one The Definition and …
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Shift happens
Finally, an excellent video about ”’the emergence of our global collective intelligence”’. Watch it on ”'[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q Shift Happens]”’. It’s about .
A CAT-Scan of the Global Brain
[http://www.intentblog.com/author.php?author=Deepak%20Chopra Deepak Chopra] writes: :…there are more school kids with high IQs in China than there are school kids in the United States. Or that a single week of the New York Times contains more information than the average person absorbed in a lifetime in the 18th century. The overall message is that the world …
Using Social Networking Tools to Write a Book
Interesting… especially in the context of Aloha, and also potentially in the context of Baobab. [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/1711229 Using Social Networking Tools to Write a Book]: “WikiTiki writes ‘Safari Books Online has a new interview with Barry Libert, one of the authors of ‘We are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your …
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Anton Heyboer on quantum, consciousness and awareness
Gaston Vilé was searching for the essential difference between ”’consciousness”’ and ”’awareness”’. While on the phone, I told him that Amit Goswami’s The Self-Aware Universe has an extensive point on this very difference. I promised Gaston to make the key pages available to him, and so I did. While on his search, Gaston found the …
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Levitated | the Exploration of Computing
Stumbled across a wonderful website yesterday with a lot of awseome and open source Flash applications that produce wonderful graphics, many of them fractal, complex. [http://levitated.net/ Check out Levitated.net]—a friendly company.
Look what they do with P2P worms
Martijn van Steenbergen tipped me on The Storm Worm: Some key points: Storm is designed like an ant colony Rather than having all hosts communicate to a central server or set of servers, Storm uses a peer-to-peer network for C2. And even if a C2 node is taken down, the system doesn’t suffer. Like a …
Flirting with the Crowds
[http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com/?p=29 Flirting with the Crowds]: Sami Viitamäki was early to come up with a very comprehensible model about Crowdsourcing: the FLIRT model. Read more on [http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com/?p=29 Carl’s post on Flirting with the Crowds].
Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
While working on a new stylesheet (CSS) for my web presence, and being a zealot when it comes to a baseline grid snapping all text, I found this wonderful article on [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/settingtypeontheweb Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid] by Wislon Miner. Thanks Wilson.
Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill?
Cherry-pick from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox for October 1 on [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/intro-text.html Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill?]. Summary: :Introductory text on Web pages is usually too long, so users skip it. But short intros can increase usability by explaining the remaining content’s purpose. Enjoy being inspired by Nielsen’s [http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/ writing for the web].