Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

chain raster reactions, or: inside a web



because.

because someone started a read-comics-in-public event 3 years ago on the 28th august, it was read-comics-in-public again yesterday.

because i had a date in Stuttgart anyway, i brought some comics along to join.

because i like counterparts, i also brought poetry.

because i had been in Stutgart earlier this year and had seen the writing on the wall, i bought a ticket this time.

because the weather happened to be good, i sat on the museum steps to read and watch and think about

x and y

cause and effect

sometimes it's easy to point out the x and the y

but then, x and y are only singularities, fragments of a much larger image.

see: the world, our brains, identity, edge effects.
see: layers, sub/conscious, cross/connections.
see: raster. view points. reflections.

and then, inside the museum, this:



and today, this: The hidden influence of social networks

Saturday, August 4, 2012

full moon & lessons in world music + networked life



a full moon moment from this week.

and a web find: like yesterday, i listened to a TED talk while doing some repetitive web / photo file formatting stuff. and this time, arrived at "What we are learning from online education" by Daphne Koller, who is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online, free for anyone who wants to take them.

the talk made me curiouses for the courses, and so i visited the course website, which is named "Coursera". i somehow expected courses on Statistics, Maths, Economy, the usual things. they have those, yes. but they cover so much more ground.

here's the link to their course list: https://www.coursera.org/courses

now, where to start? i find those especially tempting: