Richie gets into wired

Richie was the US phd student who came over last summer to build the cloud/lights ambient on top of my sensor network.

This is so viral.

For the iPhone study - 12 participants!

I have a few more in the works plus at least one other left handed person.

If his/her results are like mine then I think it might be worth trying to recruit more.

You might be glad also to learn my Amazon book linkng service has stopped working ( like I made any money from it).

British Museum Table top

New exhibition at the British Library - with these funky tables with a tangible magnifying glass  ( hmm has someone been looking at my note book). Worth a look.

I feel a tee shirt coming on.

different isn’t always better, but better’s always different

Jonathan Schwartz

DrawKit

file this under very nice  toolkit I could probably use at a late date

Claims to be tool kit for drawing.

Space syntax strikes at the world foot ball match

I used to do visualising big graph theory a long time ago. Nice to know it's still out there.

"Mathematicians and football supporters Dr Javier López Peña and Dr Hugo Touchette from Queen Mary, University of London have collected ball passing data from all of the FIFA World Cup games and analysed it to reveal the nations' different styles of play.

Using the mathematical technique called Graph Theory, they have revealed the gaping holes in England's tactics against Germany game and made predictions about the Netherlands-Spain final that could rival the psychic octopus.

For each national side, Drs López Peña and Touchette have drawn up a 'network' of passes between players throughout the tournament and analysed how these networks compare between teams. Dr Touchette explains: "Each player in the network is given a score called centrality which measures how vital they are to the network. The higher the centrality score, the bigger the impact if that player wasn't there. This method is most commonly used to make computer networks more robust, but it can also be used to plan football strategy."

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Centrality = Integration but with out the ability to allow for different sized graphs.  

I've promised my self never to build hardware again but if I did

 I found this crazy arduino like mbed board

has a simple interface to Ethernet only needs at RJ45 socket, appears to do DHCP.

Clever software makes it look like an external USB disk ... nice

Viewers for the ITunes U.

 you might have heard ( follow the link) about  the 20Million of people looking at the OU on Itunes U

'Out reach' is the new funding bodies mantra so I how you don't mind I'm blowing our own trumpet.

Our results are

Augmentation has had 1,464 downloads, from 971 visitors, a total of 6.3% of total downloads from the 'Research' sections on OU iTunes U.

Ambient displays has had 1042 downloads from 648 visitors, 4.4% of total. 

 I have had 2115 views of how does a a FTI table work