Bill Thompson on the future of the net in the face of Palladium

posted by hitherto at 2002-08-15 23:34

hitherto: Basically, he argues that geeks need to become more politicised and that, in the face of what he sees as the inevitability of palladium-like systems, we need to twist them to our advantage

so POE was all about bots, really, once

posted by zool at 2002-08-15 18:32

zool: dngnand showed me some early notes about botassisted mud stuff

zool: the live document describing POE might have better response time :)

zool: http://poe.dynodns.net/~troc/tmp/object-layer.text ... is the contemporary spin on the original 1996 document.

PoCo::Jabber announcement

posted by dngnand at 2002-08-15 16:59

Activebuddy get all-encompassing IM chatbot patent

posted by hitherto at 2002-08-15 16:42

hitherto: They "intend to enforce it"

zool: you've got to be FUCKING joking

hitherto: I am now so angry that I may randomly kill people as a stress-relieving device

blech: isn't Infobot prior art here?

hitherto: (via l.pm list)

zool: isnt everything in the world prior art?

zool: it will be impossible to enforce and only provoke people to hate them and destroy them

zool: excuse me i seem to be preemptively quite drunk

hooch: august 2000 they reckon

zool: mattw's bots at least predate that by some distance

zool: and infobot src is like 97

blech: the only hole I can see is infobot is IRC, not AIM/MSN/ICQ

blech: see also the [slashdothttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/1350230&mode=nested&tid=155] commentary

blech: from our friends over in pants

gps vehicle locator

posted by hooch at 2002-08-15 16:32

hooch: i found one of these in the boot of a car i was driving a few years ago

censored mischump

posted by dngnand at 2002-08-15 16:26

hoochcut: interesting

blech: decided to pull it as dngnand didn't know about scriborg

hoochcut: was this

rechump of zool's summer hack pictures

posted by hooch at 2002-08-15 15:08

blech: index is an RDF file which is confusing us all slightly

zool: i aim to confuse

bah

posted by hooch at 2002-08-15 14:20

blech: more like heh

blech: the future of 24/7 computing, MS style

dead or alive

posted by hooch at 2002-08-15 13:55

Swedish robot that learned to fly

posted by hitherto at 2002-08-15 10:35

smells0space

posted by zool at 2002-08-15 10:20

zool: "Computer-controlled fragrance dispensers and careful air control enable parts of the Pavilion space to be selectively scented"

zool: "allowing users to encounter an invisible yet tangible smell environment."

hitherto: Some of the work on this has been done with UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture

hitherto: Which is where the experimental Pavillion is being built, apparently

hitherto: Tangenitally, reminds me of other interesting projects at UCL, specifically their Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

hitherto: Very interesting urban mapping and planning projects going on there, including several on urban sprawl, and one on sustainable town centres