Walter Logeman: Journal
washingtonpost.com: Bearing Gifts, They Come From Afar
“A gift economy is indeed an economy — you can rationally expect that if you tender a gift, sooner or later you will receive some kind of return.
“But the return is indirect. And expectation of a return can be idealistic, even mystical.”
One of the two articles mentioned by Aldon in Psyber-l
Slashdot | Rethinking The Virtual Community: Part One
Posted by JonKatz on Thursday December 21, @10:45AM
from the –dreaming-of-cyberville- dept.
Less than a decade ago, the Virtual Community was one of the most powerful ideas emanating from the Net, and BBS’s and the nascent Internet were already providing glimpses of a better world to come. Proponents are a lot wiser — and sadder — now. Can the Virtual Community survive adolescent flamers and the dotcom era? Yes, but it will have to be dramatically reconceived. (First of a series).
Internet, discourse and interaction potential
Keynote to appear at First Asia Pacific Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Harold Thimbleby
Middlesex University
LONDON, N11 2NQ, GB
Email: harold@mdx.ac.uk
Abstract
The conventions of drama present the planned as spontaneous, stimulating the imagination of greater interaction potential than there is. This paper argues for a distinction between design for demonstration and design for interaction. The distinction is needed on the Internet, which supports the greatest range of discourse — spontaneous to planned — and therefore wide scope for confusing dramatic presentation for effective interaction.
Keywords
Design, discourse, drama, human-computer interaction, hypertext, scenarios
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Part I OF 4: TOWARDS A NEW WORLD CULTURE
with H.H. the Dalai Lama and othersIn the fall of 1999, forty innovative thinkers from around the world gathered together with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet
Program 2837 Broadcast during the week of 11/20/2000 to 11/26/2000
Reciprocality 0: The Programmers’ Stone
Look at this lot, a years worth of full time reading.
Medieval theories of analogy were a response to problems in three areas: logic, theology, and metaphysics. Logicians were concerned with the use of words having more than one sense, whether completely different, or related in some way. Theologians were concerned with language about God.
An amazing entry in an amazing encyclopedia.
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It did not do a great job on my question, but it could do as this grows!
DiscusWare, LLC — Specializing in WWW discussion board software
DiscusWare, LLC specializes in the development and implementation of WWW discussion board software. A discussion forum adds interactivity to your site, whether you use it to support your products, build on-line communities, teach classes, or give your visitors a place to express their opinions
With all my rummaging around I had not come across this software! Looks OK.