Converjed

At #relive08, opening presenter is complete with red avatar wings

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:00:31 +0000

Castronova foussing on "the game" not "the virtual". Conference as game, shades of Conference 2.0

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:00:25 +0000

#relive08 Castronova foussing on "the game" not "the virtual". Conference as game, shades of Conference 2.0 (why can't you autotag?)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:00:18 +0000

#relive08, Ted a bit VW101, but getting better. RW-VW trade is $1bn+, but VW internal trade is about $20bn - think small country

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:00:12 +0000

#relive08 hiked halfway cross-campus through DOOM like corridors to the first workshop - MMORPG/WoW focus

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:00:04 +0000

spy :: visualizes the conversations on Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Blogs and more.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:43:23 +0000

http://spy.appspot.com/

Neat app, monitoring Twitter et al for "hot topics". Does it do this automatically or when people ask to search? Another neat feed for Halo to monitor.

Off to plymouth for the day to see the uni and two four and talk SL

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:04 +0000

Listen to Fish on Friday - Planet Rock

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:01:38 +0000

Listening to Fish on Friday on Planet Rock, hosted by Fish of Marillion fame. Great programme, great music, and a presenter who's not afraid to play entire album sides.

Indian probe lands on Moon's surface

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:44:06 +0000

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16043-indian-probe-lands-on-moons-surface.html

India's first Moon probe has made it. Apparently it' sent back pictures but they haven't been released yet.

Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:53:02 +0000

http://www.ushahidi.com/

Interesting site using SMS and Google Maps to report civil rights incidents in Africa's hotspots. Be great to mash-up with our Virtual Briefing Hub

At the NHS innovation event. Very conference 1.0

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:09 +0000

Survivors - BBC TV - New Series

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:48:57 +0000

The new imagining of Survivors starts on the BBC this month. The old 70s series was stunning - even when we watched it again on video a couple of years ago. Let's hope they haven't ruined it.

Good day working on the PREVIEW Editor http://www.elu.sgul.ac.uk/preview for our eLearning in SL project

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:00:03 +0000

Bloggingheads.tv - diavlogs - Jaron Lanier on AI

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:52:49 +0000

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/15555

Neat concept - one on one interview by webcam. This one is Jaron Lanier
Microsoft Corp., University of California-Berkeley, Jaronlanier.com and Eliezer Yudkowsky
Singularity Institute, Overcoming Bias.

Thanks @mendicott for the heads-up

The Loebner Prize from a judge's perspective

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:19:54 +0000

Interesting view of the Loebner/Turing from a judge this year. His approach is very much to find out if the bot is a human or not, rather than to see if he can have a "normal" conversation. Again this pushes me to the belief that we shoudl have a tiered approach to this:

- test where testers don't know there are any bots
- test where the testers know there are bots but have "normal" conversations
- full gloves-off test

His questions were very much reasoning tests of the third kind:

- if we shake hands, whose hand am I holding?
- I have a jewellery box in my hand, how many CDs can I store in it?
- he four capitals of the UK are three, Manchester and Liverpool. What's wrong with this sentence?

How many times do you ask those in normal conversation?