{"id":1138,"date":"2008-09-24T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/24\/links-for-2008-09-24\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:31:15","slug":"links-for-2008-09-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/24\/links-for-2008-09-24\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-09-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\"><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomtaylor.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/listening-to-rocks\/\">Listening to rocks \u00bb Blog \u00bb tomtaylor.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I knocked together a Twitter bot called Low Flying Rocks, that scrapes data out of the NASA NEO database, twittering whenever a rock passes within 0.2 AU of the Earth&#8221; A nice complement to the Tower Bridge Twitter bot by the other Tom.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/twitter\">twitter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/bots\">bots<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/rocks\">rocks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/NASA\">NASA<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joridegoede.com\/portfolio\/instable.html\">Jori de Goede &#8211; Ins(table)<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Ins(table) is an interactive installation that explores the possibilities of the visualization of speech and conversations.&#8221; The best interaction design project at this year&#8217;s HKU graduation expo. Some nice dataviz here, plus the table itself is an aesthetically pleasing object (something you don&#8217;t see too often in interactive furniture).<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/interaction\">interaction<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/installations\">installations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/dataviz\">dataviz<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/speech\">speech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/conversations\">conversations<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/audio\">audio<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/analysis\">analysis<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/softbody.hku.nl\/\">softbody<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">By far the most impressive game that was on show at this year&#8217;s HKU graduation expo. Offering a very nice balance between structured and open-ended play, lush graphics and superb technical execution. The research that went into this (on the paidia-ludus continuum) is worth checking out too.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/games\">games<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/paidia\">paidia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/ludus\">ludus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/play\">play<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/HKU\">HKU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/indie\">indie<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/experimental\">experimental<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webzone.k3.mah.se\/k3jolo\/Material\/aesthetics_of_ixd.pdf\">Five things I believe about the aesthetics of interaction design<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;1. It makes little sense to talk about \u00bbvisual aesthetics\u00ab as an isolated modality. 2. The genre determines the aesthetic qualities. 3. Aesthetic is not equal to good, pleasant, pretty or nice. 4. Aesthetic experience is connected with intellectual deliberation as much as with immediate, \u00bbvisceral\u00ab response. 5. We need holistic, interpretative approaches to dealing with aesthetics in interaction design.&#8221;<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/aesthetics\">aesthetics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/interactiondesign\">interactiondesign<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/IxD\">IxD<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to rocks \u00bb Blog \u00bb tomtaylor.co.uk &#8220;I knocked together a Twitter bot called Low Flying Rocks, that scrapes data out of the NASA NEO database, twittering whenever a rock passes within 0.2 AU of the Earth&#8221; A nice complement to the Tower Bridge Twitter bot by the other Tom. (tags: twitter bots rocks space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/24\/links-for-2008-09-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2008-09-24<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}