Author: Howard
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Ross Dawson – The Weightless Economy
The weightless economy – goods and economic value when up, but weight of goods shipped stayed almost constant. So much of what is made weighs nothing, including information. Cuneiform documents from Sumaria still exist thousands of years later – agreed upon standard of communication with an interface – ie carvings in stone. The Internet is…
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Working Out
I’ve been working out at least 3 mornings a week since late February. The only exceptions have been weeks I’ve had my Vertigo issues. I was at the health club at the hotel this morning, and Esther Dyson caught me in on her camera. Just in case someone didn’t believe I was at the gym,…
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Social Network Analysis
Valdis Krebs is speaking on Social netowrks analysis. Picture here. Valdis showing diagrams that are examples of Social Network Maps. Here is an example from his site. Now Eszter Hargittai is talking about the links between and among Political Weblogs. Sunstein’s theory (link courtesy of Eszter – thanks) is that there should be little interlinkage…
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Yellow Arrow
MeshForum is showing Art projects in between speakers – the current one is Yellow Arrow, which is a kind of tagging project where yellow arrow stickers and unique IDs are used to tag and point to items in the physical world. The tags can be referenced online. Tags are sent with cell phones and text…
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Meshforum – intro discussion
Here at Meshforum, watching Dr. Anna Nagurney doing an excellent overview of what Networks are. She’s explaining all the networks around us, from transportation to web traffic, to water and power, to the Romans and the ‘flow problem’ they had with too many chariots at a given time of day. Network analysis power is that…