Learning Aesthetics

From an iPAQ; truely weird display.

Apperception almost crept into the last post, but somehow I managed to avoid it.  Good things can’t last forever, however, and karmic-convergence seems to have reasserted itself. As William James notices the topic is pretty much unavoidable in educational circles; today we’re likely to call it scaffolding, or some other happy term. (Total digression: the [...]

You may have noticed what I consider a strange style to these posts, a kind of abbreviated thought process, you might say.  It’s not just that I’ve been spending too much time on Twitter; it’s a form follows philosophy thing.  A couple of weeks back I saw a post, I no longer know from who [...]

Buried in what a take to be an questionable idea, classroom computers, it a remarkable paragraph:
The tablet PCs, which feature 15-inch LCD with multi-point technology (not a touch screen, but the surface can pick up more than one stylus at a time), will cost less than $30 each to build, and incorporating them into the [...]

My friend Nathan over on Phaedrus pointed me to The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism, and that to DigiActive; all of which are related in my mind anyway, to the latest post over on the SightWork node. Ethan Zuckerman’s CCToDA post is a must read long but worth it and if you don’t [...]

It just takes a little exploring..
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The last post was a demo of ‘Deep Zoom’ from Microsoft Live Labs and if I interpret correctly
Deep Zoom is based on the same Seadragon technology that you have seen in our demos and in the Photosynth preview.  For the first time, we are enabling individual developers to harness the 2D capabilities of Seadragon [...]

I’m working on getting images into this stuff, and as you may have noticed running behind on that too.  My implementation will be pretty basic for a while, but I’m hoping to get some coder friends involved because there is some incredibly cool stuff on the horizon.  Some posts to demo that first of the [...]

One of the ungotten to posts that’s been hanging about is this…

InnerTwitter
I’ve been using it for a month or so try it you might just like it…

Mark Miller sent us a pointer to  Zonbu which/who will sell you ‘perfectly adequate’ desktop computer for $99.  This sounds like a heck of a deal and it maybe, depending upon your taste.  You can read all the fine print here but to cut to the chase it’s $99 if you buy a two year [...]