[Reader-list] The Anarchogeek interview

[henk at waag.org]

Today on www.slashdot.org (News for Nurds, Stuff that Matters):

	- the world's first TCP/IP-enabled Lego brick
Imagine what the possabilities could be for combined-media practice :-)
http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/rcx/legos/?n=2247

Something completely different but with some crossing border site steps:
	- Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics
this book is 'an introduction to Perl for biologists. it's also an
introduction to biology and bioinformatics for Perl programmers, and it's
also an introduction to both Perl *and* biology for people that have never
really been exposed to either field. The author has clearly thought a lot
about making one book to please these different audiences, and he has pulled
it off nicely, in a way that manages to explain basic topics to people
learning about each field for the first time while not coming off as
condescending or slow-paced to those that might already have some exposure
to it.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/

grtz,
henk



On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:34:07PM +0530, Jeebesh Bagchi wrote:
> Thanks Patrice. for the posting. One paragraph really struck me in term of 
> it's range, the posssible intricate combination and the multiplicity of 
> communication levels. 
> 
> >" Most of my work is focused on communcations technology. Websites, email,
> >?mailinglists, cell phones, radios, media labs, video cameras, magazines, 
> > newspapers, filers, community, web and pirate
> > radio, public access tv, theaters, all come together to
> > provide the infrastructure upon which the movement
> > communicates. This is both internal communcation where
> >?we are debating an comeing to develop critiques,
> > coordanate ourselves, and to present to the world our
> >?perspective. "
> 
> In conversation with Henk (henk at waag.org) i was struck by possiblitity of 
> combination-media practice.
> 
> - Combine email with website (like the reader-list)
> - Combine mailing list with sms messages
> - SMS messaging to radio programme (a computer takes the sms message then 
> reads out through a text to speech programme - you can stream it again into 
> internet radio. This can be done with emails also)
> - You can combine community television with online chat programme. 
> - Combine irc chat with sms.
> - Printouts from online messages as wall papers.
> 
> You can combine anything with anything. And you go really micro, low scale. 
> 
>  
> best
> Jeebesh
> 
> 
> 
> 
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