Actually this quote, that I just grabbed, is the quote for the first 20 days of January 2008. Why only for the first 20 days you ask? Because. One cycle ends, the other begins. ‘Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds’ – Albert Einstein
Category: Science
Science Blogging Anthology!
Conference time is approaching. Today Bora updated everything you need to know on Science Blogging conference (program, wiki..). There’s going to be another Science Blogging Anthology and should be published and ready for the event. Nominations for the most interesting and best posts are still open until December 20th, so …
upcoming conferences: SN portability and more…
You may find these three conferences interesting, as it’s getting closer: SocialNetworkPortability, Webcamp in Cork, Ireland on the 2nd March 2008. The topic of this workshop will be social network portability, within the 5th International conference on Social software: Blogtalk Corc 2008. Another one is in UK- Open Knowledge conference …
To FB or not to FB? Are we friends or ex-friends?
First I want to reply to the post of my Twitter friend and colleague George Frink with whom I DM’ed via Twitter lately on SNS and other issues, and here I have the need to explain, actually clarify his latest post as response to my previous Online friending. The point …
Online friending: information overload and simulation of life
Facebook friending or something like this*: friend requests, group invitations, cause invitations, world’s most abstract invitations, My Lil Lohan invitation, circle of trust, risk, true or false invitations, gifts invitations, birthday calender, friends for sale (the person is no longer friend), southpark character invitations, sketch me, characterize me requests, harry …
Analogue vs Digital is not equal! Offline Weinberger’s discussion
My old professor of world literature had theory on analogue and digital world , even nine years ago when the Internet started to grow and expand. As an active computer consumer, I asked him weather he would prefer to read novel as eBook or in paper form if he had …
Second life? No! or How did I quit…
Actually I was never active in Second Life. I joined few months ago, created avatar, started to explore, to investigate, participated/ audit few lectures and that was all. I never had any intentions to go deeper: sell, buy, use entertainment facilities, or interacting per se with unknown people. I was …