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Archive for 2009

Liked this quote from Picasso

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
- Pablo Picasso

BGDD Plenary: Mobiles and new approaches to ICT in Africa

Some brief notes from the EPSRC network meeting on Bridging the Global Digital Divide, where amongst other debate some great speakers talked about work going on with communities in South Africa, and a new, light touch approach to ICT design

Online Info 2008

Some notes from various presentations on social sofware, search and libraries

Knowledge, the ens and the outs of it

A comparison of approaches to KM – from the static to the dynamic and (not) back again.

Don Juan and navigating the web

Can the words of disgraced anthropologist Carlos Castaneda be a good metaphor for web interaction?
“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking, looking breathlessly.”
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Distributed Cognition – IT has feelings too?

In which I discover the concept, coming from psychology and HCI, seeming to give equal rights to the inananimate