Leave it to the Germans…
Link: jay is: The Asylum.

Categories: games

Joel Kotkin writing in the Washington Post about the inevitable decline of the modern city:  He argues that cities have been losing population since 2000 as a direct result of terrorism concerns. 
The kinds of policies needed to secure their safety may pose a serious dilemma for great cities that have been built upon the […]

Categories: cities

An interesting "discovery" of mobile technology from Technology Review:
Constant connectivity has changed what it means to participate in a conference or any other gathering. Using chat rooms, blogs, wikis,
Wikis: Web pages that allow users to add content or edit existing content.

photo-sharing
sites, and other technologies, people at real-world meetings can now
tap into an electronic swirl […]

Categories: network · mobility

Call for proposals for an Educause conference in San Diego.  I’m a little bit weary of these ed software conferences, but I just might send a proposal.  They’re due September 12th.

Categories: educational technology

Some great reflections from the Temporary Autonomous Zone.  This is from the section on the Psychotopology of Everyday Life.  The declaration that insurgency is open and revolution dead speaks to the existence of a territory void of potentiality. 
The second generating force behind the TAZ springs from the
historical development I call "the closure of the […]

Categories: mediated urbanism

Great bibliography on design and technology from NYU.
Link: Values In Design.

Categories: interface

User-illusion, a term dreamt up by the good people at Xerox PARC desribes the manifestation of metaphors in the experience of interface.  For instance, desktop, rooms, shopping cart, etc, are illusory metaphors that make the interface legible.  I wonder if calling the experience of metaphors illusory is accurate.  It would imply that there is a […]

Categories: interface

“We become observers through recursively generating representations of our interactions, and by interacting with several representations simultaneously we generate relations with the representations of which we can then interact and repeat this process recursively, thus remaining in a domain of interactions always larger than that of the representation.” (Maturna and Verela, Autopoiesis and Cognition: the […]

Categories: network

Jorge Luis Borges’ story "Of Exactitude in Science" tells the story of a King who orders a map made of his kingdom with a 1:1 ration.  The map is made to overlay the territory.  When you consider some digital cartography projects, including PdPal, it seems as though artists working in locative media of one sort […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · article ideas

Useful resource for all things graffiti.  This is an active site with images of street words and pics from all over.
Link: STREETS ARE SAYING THINGS™ :: THE ORIGINAL ONLINE GRAFFITI MUSEUM.

Categories: mediated urbanism