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TCM Locative Reader

By alex | Published: 6/23/2005
In preparation for talking about mobile technologies, mapping, and locative media on Monday, please take a look at the following: * TCM Locative Reader – Introduction * Mousehunter at Banff * and skim for interesting chunks on these two blogs: Mapping Hacks and the “locative” category from We Make Money Not Art.
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Philip K. Dick robot

By alex | Published: 6/23/2005
Continuing the theme of lifelike robots, BoingBoing points to a lifelike Philip K. Dick replibot, who is able to identify friends, and imitate the author’s own personality, just as Dick predicted in his own We Can Build You. Imagine having Abraham Lincoln as a guest speaker for third-grade history.
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Mobile Retail

By alex | Published: 6/23/2005
Last night we talked a bit about retail informatics. One of the things we didn’t talk about was the move from retail stores to highly mobile retail. When I got home, this commercial (wmv format) from Nextel was on. (I know we have an alektorophobe in the class who should probably avoid watching; I don’t […]
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Top 100 Blogger

By alex | Published: 6/21/2005
I am just so pleased to have finally made it. A new method of ranking bloggers, which is clearly superior to all earlier methods, places me at number 100 of the top 100 bloggers. The method is easy to follow. You simply look for where your Alexa traffic ranking falls when compared with the Technorati […]
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