CALL FOR PAPERS – SAC 2006 The 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing April 23 – 27, 2006, Dijon, France http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2006/ Track: Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how Aims and scope: Computational models of trust and mechanisms based on… Continue Reading
Only in America, where many people drive around in SUV’s packed to the bull bars with DVD players, playstations and other entertainment technologies would you get a university project about roadcasting: Roadcasting is a system that allows anyone to have… Continue Reading
A few things I found in the newspaper at the weekend: Spinvox, which the Observer says is "the World’s first voicemail-to-text service", is offering free trials of their service: http://www.spinvox.com Roger Mosey, head of BBC Television News, reviewed Peter Bazalgette’s… Continue Reading
(This was a position paper I wrote in advance of giving a talk at TPSA in Warsaw on 21 May 2004 – one year ago today.) The internet was initially conceptualised as a way to overcome thelimitations of geography. Pioneering… Continue Reading
When I was about twelve years old, one of my school friends read an article about a pyramid scheme that the local police were trying to warn people from joining. The next day, we set up our own pyramid scheme… Continue Reading
WIRELESS UTOPIAS O5 – An Open Future for Spectrum? Cybersalon and Open Spectrum UK host the second event in their Wireless Utopias series – a unique debate on the future of wireless communications and the strategic prospects for utilising the… Continue Reading
This morning I came across a fairly comprehensive list of hosted blogging services and blog (server) software. If you think of any that aren’t on the list, please post them as a comment below.
I don’t know anything at all about “Opie and Anthony” other than that they are DJ’s and that their show seems to be the first to launch a feedback “widget” for Mac OSX’s dashboard. “Send instant feedback to the studio… Continue Reading
I still get a lot of people emailing to ask about submitting articles for Cybersociology, the webzine I edited from 1997 to late 1999. I’ve been thinking of reviving the project, maybe as some sort of group blog with a… Continue Reading
Following the lead of Technorati, Flickr and Yahoo, the BBC recently launched backstage, a site where developers can share ideas and prototypes demonstrating how BBC content can be used in different, and often quite interesting, ways. Reported by BBC News… Continue Reading