August 2009

In-Flux

• Society must decide if it 'will accept relationships between humans and robots' - Telegraph
  "As the machines become more sophisticated, they will increasingly seem more like humans and could demand ‘human rights’" […]
• Too many holes in Danton story | William Houston
  Beyond the content of this story, this is a very interesting example of a figure, in retirement, who uses self-publishing to continue sharing his expertise. Obviously needed. […]
• NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time web
  "LOOK AT ME, LOOKING AT THIS." […]
• NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
  "none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something, or post a video on YouTube or check-in using someone’s address on Foursquare. It’s just what we do now, no matter whether we’re heading out for dinner or witnessing a massacre on an Army base. Like Lord of the Flies, or the Stanford Prison Experiment, as long as we’re all losing […]
• Clive James isn't a climate change sceptic, he's a sucker - but this may be the reason | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
  "Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere that cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to scientific findings is greeted with furious invective. This sphere is expanding with astonishing speed." […]
• Ecology and Society - Vol. 14, No. 1 (2009)
  "Because immortality projects range from belief in technology and materialism to reverence for nature or belief in a celestial god, they act both as barriers to and facilitators of sustainable practices." […]
• Terror Management Theory
  "humans are motivated to quell the potential for terror inherent in the human awareness of vulnerability and mortality by investing in cultural belief systems (or worldviews) that imbue life with meaning, and the individuals who subscribe to them with significance (or self-esteem)." […]
• Guidelines for Developing Mobile Web Content
  "W3C has published a set of guidelines for developers of content on the web that is designed to play on mobile devices. " […]
• Talis Education » Blog Archive » Scott Wilson talks with Talis
  "discussion is centred around Ensemble, a tool developed by tool that aggregates Open Education Resources (OERs), its origins and how it works. Scott also talks about a number of related projects, such as FeedForward, of which Ensemble is a part, a desktop tool for the unified discovery and delivery of academic and general web resources. […]
• Bug Labs: modular, open source hardware
  "for building devices." […]
• Tagin « Tag your location!
  "a WiFi-based point-of-interest (POI) service that allows users to tag outdoor and indoor locations" […]
• The Fun Theory
  "dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better." […]