One of the more interesting home made computers I've seen lately is the Neuhausplatz 200NC or "look ma, no case"

" So you like modifying computer cases? So do we, but instead of drilling holes and windows out of our computer cases to install cold cathodes, fans and plexiglass, we simply left the case away this time.

NeuHausPlatz Computer Systems is proud to announce:
The NHP 200NC, a lightweight caseless PC the world has never seen before. "

What a concept!!

Researchers at UC Berkeley working on Pico Radio hope to have low cost, low power nodes the size of a shirt button. They see these as remote sensors. Very interesting.

PicoRadio Charter:
Develop meso-scale low cost (< 50 cents) transceivers for ubiquitous wireless data acquisition that minimizes power/energy dissipation.
>> Minimize energy (<5nJ/(correct) bit) for energy-limited source
>> Minimize power (<100uW) for power limited source enabling energy scavenging

By using the following strategies:
>> self-configuring networks
>> fluid trade-off between communication and computation
>> Integrated SOC approach, aggressive low-energy architectures and circuits

Our friend Joe Appleton was on Oprah's show today, How Children Learn -- And Why Some Don't. There was a short taped section of Joe in his classroom and then a couple questions of him live at the show!! Cool. Got it on tape as proof.

There's another show related to this that's on PBS tonight Misunderstood Minds

From today's Scripting News:

DaveNet: My Long Bet with the NY Times. "My bet with Martin Nisenholtz at the Times says that the tide has turned, and in five years, the publishing world will have changed so thoroughly that informed people will look to amateurs they trust for the information they want."

Now for something a bit different. This past Saturday Sally and I visited the Corcoran Gallery and the Renwick Museum.

At the Renwick gift shop they had these nifty Ikebana flower pots from Georgetown Pottery of Maine.

Have a look, but be warned, if you're on a slow connection the pictures will take a while to load -- sez George in hotel behind 24K modem.

Here's a double ticket: 1) Seattle Suprasonics an interesting site with 2) a quote from Greg Wood of Internet2

MSNBC reports on the next wave of bandwidth, starting with Wi-Fi in Seattle: a really neat report (and I mean that honestly) on the coming waves of new sorts of bandwidth and methods of networking, starting off with a great overview of Wi-Fi as expressed in the community networking world. Notably Matt Westervelt of Seattle Wireless had his photo and his words included in a way that appears entirely accurate to me. The article goes on to discuss Internet2, terabit networks, and other nifty visions of tomorrow.
A great quote: Internet2 spokesman Greg Wood. %u201CTen years ago ... it%u2019s hard to imagine, but it was actually impossible to send e-mail from one system to another." Okay, it wasn't impossible, it was just implausible in many cases unless you were on the actual Internet. There was no commercial Internet. There were few gateways. You had to have a university account or something wacky like a Well account. Sobers you up when you realize where we're at this short a time later. It's like seeing a 1992-era cell phone: you start laughing and laughing, and then realize that if you'd showed up with a Motorola StarTac in 1992, it would have been approximately like bringing plastic bottles of soft drink to the Congressional Congress in the 18th century.

Here's a Business 2.0 article - The Island of the Wireless Guerrillas about doing wireless networks in Hawaii for research and education.

The online article points to the Wireless Education Solutions Team (WEST). This site tells more about the technical details of the project.

The paper magazine had some fotos of the kids using a mobile lab "The Hula Bus". Reminded me of a plan I used to have for a mobile crafts workshop for teaching which evolved into a proposal for a Mobile High Tech lab I almost built when I was at the UNC Educational Computing Services way back in the 1980's.

Thanks to Douglas Crockford who sent me a page with more links for Bliss Symbols. I had referrenced them last year in my Olde InfoArk(ive) and the Anthology of Links

Here's another concept mapping / mind mapping tool: TouchGraph it provides a hands-on way to visualize networks of interrelated information. Networks are rendered as interactive graphs, which lend themselves to a variety of transformations. By engaging their visual image, a user is able to navigate through large networks, and to explore different ways of arranging the network's components on screen.

This site, Compendium Development, uses TouchGraph as its site map. Most curious.

Ran across Infonomia.com today. I believe the primary site is in Spanish.

In their own words, "Infonomia.com is a digital space aimed at professionals and companies. Its contents are elaborated in order to explain what the New Economy is and what its impact will be on organizations as well as on people's lives."

They go on to describe Infonomics. Here are a couple bullets:

"Infonomics is defined as the intelligent management of information (Info-nomics= Information Management). Infonomics is about people and organizations' relation to information, in such a way that it will require the participation of different disciplines and people who work both from a theoretical as well as practical point of view."

"This is not the Internet Age. It is the age of the intelligent information management."

"Infonomics needs a theoretical development. While being developed, here are the following subjects out of all the subjects Infonomics deals with:
1) Knowledge Economy
2) Organization as an Information System
3) Information Laws
4) Search for Relevance as Informational Energy
5) Knowledge as Value
6) Understanding as Business
7) Internet as a Transformational Factor in Business
8) Information Policies
9) The New Information Professional's Education
10) General Information Theory"

"Weblogs" are a relatively new method of distributing personal news, essentially an individual's log of activities, news, and thoughts presented in a public manner on the web. As a publishing medium, weblogs are ultimately democratic, often as timely as traditional news sources, and have a potential distribution much greater than print media. One problem with these personal information sources is the inability to find an audience. Blogdex is a system built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source, moving democratic media to the masses.

an initial implementation of blogdex is now up and running. currently, blogdex focuses on the referential information provided by weblogs, or the links that people place on their sites. By amalgamating these pointers, we can get an instantaneous look at internet fashion from democratic means.

blogdex is a project of the mit media laboratory.

Via a personal social network, Ed Vielmetti's Vacuum, I came across a great article today from Peter Moreville at Semantic Studios, "Social Network Analysis". It is a wonderful synopsis of the value and power of Social Network Analysis in organizations. Be sure to take a look at it. In particular he mentions two applications I want to check into: Inflow and Babble.

It spurred two thoughts/memories for me:

1) The work of Noshir Contractor at UIUC with I-KNOW which is an acronym for Inquiring Knowledge Networks On the Web.

2) Charles Cameron's Hipbone Games.

What Charles has developed is potentially a strong parallel tool that might serve the Socal Network Analysis framework with another viewpoint. Oh, and this relates to Hesse's Glass Bead Game -- the book and more Glass Bead Games can be found using Google.

Charles writes, "We call them "HipBone Games" because of the old song, "the hip-bone connected to the thigh-bone", and because they are games of connection, of the links between ideas. The HipBone Games site offers you a variety of simple boards, and playing our games is as easy -- and as subtle -- as mapping your ideas onto the board positions. It's pretty much like using one of those "clustering" devices you find in creativity seminars and problem-solving workshops -- one idea goes in a little balloon over here, and it's linked to another idea in a little balloon over there... "

An hipbone game example from last Year's Online Social Networks 2001 Conference.

Well, MovableType is working very well for me. One reason is that you can have multiple blogs on the same server. I've set up a couple more that are project specific. Now the challenge will be to see if the other participants begin to use this. Worst case I can envision that I'll be copy-pasting their email into posts. Best case is that we all share and as new participants join the project we'll point them there for the project history.

...stay tooned.

Denham sez his KM Wiki Site is "the largest collaborative KM repository on the web!!" I am inclined to agree, it's depth and breadth is amazing. Have a look and go ahead and add info to it!

Just stumbled on the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group for Knowledge Management. Seems they added Technology to the title sometime recently (5-10years) in my memory. ;)

Have a look at TWiki a ConceptMapping WebIndex
FYI - a Wiki is another sort of two way web space. This wiki has many links about concept mapping. Most of the links seem to be from last spring, but what the heck, much of the information is timeless.

One of the ultimate web logs (blogs) is Dave Winer's Scripting News Weblog
Nuff said. Worth visiting frequently. So, I'll add it to the links list on the right.

Two years ago this month he wrote a web article about the Two Way Web. This article is a good background piece.

"What is Information Fluency?
According to Information Fluency Program at Centenary College"...may be envisioned as the optimal outcome when critical thinking skills are combined with information literacy and relevant computing skills." This suggests smart researching, based on overlapping abilities."
-- a Centenary College Initiative

I've move my Anthology of links from InfoArk(ive) ManilaSite

While this list is olde, it does a pretty good job of summarizing all the different links I present in the Old InfoArk(ive) pages by categories.