links for 2007-05-31
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“We look for people who are so inquisitive about the world that they’re willing to try to do what you do. We call them “T-shaped people.”
links for 2007-05-30
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reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking.
Dynamist Rules
From The Future and its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel:
- Allow individuals (including groups of individuals) to act on their own knowledge.
- Apply to simple, generic units and allow them to combine in many different ways.
- Permit credible, understandable, enduring, and enforceable commitments.
- Protect criticism, competition, and feedback.
- Establish a framework within which people can create nested, competing frameworks of more specific rules.
links for 2007-05-23
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Innovations pass into the mainstream when people imitate early adopters. This is the classic operation of the diffusion effect, but there are times when late adopters will not imitate. This happens when the early adopter flaunts his difference…
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This study explores the symbolic meanings for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) being appropriated and communicated by the vehicles’ owners. (PDF)
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