Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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AKMA runs into problems accessing his library’s free WiFi connection from outside the building. Apparently some think that’s a Fedaral felony. See: AKMA’s Random Thoughts: So Weirdly Wrong Nice to see “freedom” at work. 🙁 More here too: AKMA’s Random Thoughts: For Clarity’s Sake
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Following up on several of recent Steve’s postings on How do we go deep? here’s a crowd that claim to have recognised the lack of depth in the general media and blogging. Their alternative is to produce detail 5-20 page “manifestoes” to be copied, shared and transmitted across cyberspace with a view to soliciting comments…
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Just seeing if I can post nicely from NewNewsWire. If it works out okay I might upgrade from the Lite version to get the web log editing tools.
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Couple of recent cartoon strips from UserFriendly on blogging. UserFriendly June 12, 2004 UserFriendly June 13, 2004
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Couple of potentially useful MacOS X software apps came across my scanner over the last few days. Firstly ImageWell is an excellent little (free!) app that you drop and image onto and it posts it to the web location (iDisk, FTP, WebDAV) you choose (or the default). And it allows you to perform cropping, scaling,…
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Interesting article about computer games in education at Water Cooler Games – Education Arcade, day 1 where Ian Bogost (an academic game researcher, game designer, and educational publisher) looks at education and computer games at E3. Some interesting ideas in the comments of those he summarizes about using games to interpret life and make sense…
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Or more particularly the implications of gender for robot design and human-robot interaction: Robot Sex. Must be Robot Week out there on the web.
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Netcraft notes that the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) web site now appears to be running Linux and ponders whether that would mean that SCO might include the RIAA in it’s lawsuit against major companies using Linux. The possibility of SCO suing the RIAA over breaching their intellectual property is far too much irony…
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Sometimes all those people who write about the evil and immorality on the Net get it right. NZOOM – Attempt to sell women on the web. Online marketplace eBay Inc. said it had removed from its website a listing that offered three young Vietnamese women for auction and will report the person who posted it…
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CNET has an article on the new internet search engines and companies that are trying to be a better Google that Google. If you’re looking at trying something else the have a look at: Search upstarts storm Google’s gates | CNET News.com.