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  • Getting Connected

    Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities Web 2.0, social networking, cloud computing, SaaS, PaaS, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web, Smart Phones, 3G, wifi, convergence…. the list of buzzwords or memes  goes on—meme being the buzzword for buzzwords. There is nothing new in a long list of industry buzzwords. However, I think this list is different.…

  • Smart stuff

    Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities I was listening to the Today Programme on Radio 4 the other morning, and heard that the vast majority of computers in the world are not part of PC’s. Most processors are thinking away in non-computer items like washing machines, cars, and mobile phones. OK, so this isn’t really…

  • FOWA

    Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities I’ve been out of the Talis office for nearly two weeks—the last of which was on holiday without internet connection of any description. The week before that, however, I spent at FOWA (Future Of Web Apps) in London. Aside from being really good fun, the conference had a bunch…

  • Empathic Web

    Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities Last week I listened to a talk by Shane Hipps, a Porsche “consumer anthropologist” turned Mennonite minister. The speaker, clearly aware of the contradictory nature of his background, made a very interesting observation about the digital age. He essentially said that we are, as a society, experiencing a shift…

  • Perspective Applications

    Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities Looking at the world through a closed metaphor, like a walled garden, actually stops you from expanding the scope of possibilities available to the software you develop. This is because closed-world perspectives on data and meaning preclude the ability for further questioning. The answer to the question: “What don’t…

  • Walled gardens: mapping the parties

    Originally appeared on the Nodalities blog – which has since been consigned to the wayback machine. 29th April 2008, 11:34 am by Zach Beauvais In: Uncategorized The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing on kind of thing in terms of another. -Lakoff and Johnson (1980) Would you join me for a party? It’s a…