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Monthly Archives: August 2007
More Thoughts on Net-Locality
Allen Smith, who works for WHERE, contacted me about my last post with an interesting corrective: “I always thought about recent phone technology as allowing the internet to come out into the world and overlay it with information, I never … Continue reading
Posted in city, net-locality, phones, placeofmedia, play
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Location widgets
Location is the next frontier in computing. The company uLocate has announced a competition for developers to make location-based widgets. uLocate’s new location-widget feature, called simply Where, is essentially a collection of little programs that mash-up data from the Internet … Continue reading
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Putting Theory into Action
Everything is going full speed ahead. The Boston Redevelopment Authority has agreed to fund the first phase of the Hub2 program. They’re going to pay for student tuition, evaluation, TA support and design. It’s great news and we’re thrilled that … Continue reading
Posted in boston, citygovernment, civic_engagement, gene_koo, hub2, phones, placeofmedia, SecondLife
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Placeworlds
As we consider our theoretical justification for using Second Life to facilitate civic engagement, we’ve come up with the notion of placeworlds. Below is a sketch of the concept: Place is experienced space. It is what happens when geographic space … Continue reading
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