Idea of the day - wikipeida for structured knowledge

I was talking in a co-worker who is developing tools to permit people to edit semantic information. It reminded me of CYC an attempt to create a comprehensive ontology of common sense knowledge. 


Personally I've always been sceptical of these kinds of attempts to create formally verifiable structured knowledge. 


That aside I mentioned to the co-worker that perhaps what someone should do is to build a crowd source engine - like Wikipedia. The engine would have enough tools to permit people to enter information in the network of knowlege directly. I guess something like DBpedia ( but being explicitly written rather than extracted from wikipeida ). 


Perhaps its already in existence you see a lot of projects like this ( FreeBase, Open Cyc) - perhaps FreeBase is it( except that's commercially owned right?). 

Large Displays in Urban Life - CHI 2011 workshop

Large Displays in Urban Life - CHI 2011 workshop

The CHI workshop I tended has published it's conclusions. This is me  holding up the notes I made during the sub-meeting.

Just in case your interested in my handwriting.

Space Syntax video

My original work was on what is in a field known as 'space syntax'

I'm often asked about space syntax, its hard to track down a good overview, but this is quite a good video giving the urban version of space syntax. You can see some of my software ( and results of my analytic software ) in this video.

This is Alan's talk - its more building centric.

Nokia future vision - sort of

I am a complete sucker for these type of videos.

OK the down side is that this kinds of eye tracking as user interface technology has been repeatedly tried and fails for the same reason. Our eye movements are not as smooth and deliberate as you might think. This kind of augmented reality interface might work but the haptic bracelet would be better. Notice she never types.

Didn't Bruce Stirling write about this glasses technology in Mona Lisa overdrive ?