Last Wednesday, Jofish commented on my Latour post that he was going to be in California for the 4S conference (Society for the Social Studies of Science) the next day and that I should come down and schmooz for a bit over the weekend. After an entertaining miscommunication where I repeatedly read Pasadena as Palo […]
Latour at Berkeley
As previously mentioned, Bruno Latour came to Berkeley to give a talk. I was psyched. So I left work early, but hit more traffic than expected and got to the auditorium just at 6:30 when the pre-talk movie was starting. And the place was standing room only. 150 seat auditorium, all seats filled, for a […]
Slow motion catches
I played ultimate yesterday in my typical league. Even though our team eventually lost 15-13, I think I scored something like 8 or 9 of our points. Some of them I sky-ed over my defender, jumping up and snatching the disc at the highest point of my leap. A few I got because of great […]
Demonic dream
There’s a new show on the WB called Supernatural, about two brothers who are “ghost hunters”, fighting demons and stuff. I watched the first episode, thought it was okay, didn’t really feel a yen for it – basically a low rent horror-flick copy of the X-Files. I happened to catch most of another episode last […]
de Young opening
On Saturday night, Lilia and I went to the grand opening of the de Young museum in Golden Gate Park. We were meeting some of her friends there, but got there a bit early, and it turned out to be a good thing, since the line was pretty incredible. Yes, we waited for over an […]
Web2.1 notes
I’m glad I decided to go to the Web2.1 BrainJam. I was a bit nervous, since I didn’t know anybody there and I don’t do this stuff for a living, but it turned out to be a good time. Chris Heuer, the organizer, wanted to try doing what he called Speed Brainjamming, and what Christopher […]
Going to Web2.1
After waffling for a bit, I decided to go to Web 2.1 after all. I stayed late this evening at work, and I’ll head in early tomorrow, and will probably have to go in over the weekend, but it’s worth it to talk to some folks whose stuff I’ve been reading for a while. I […]
Web 2.1
I’m not sure whether I can make it yet, but I figured I’d toss a pointer to Web 2.1, a “BrainJam” for folks who can’t or won’t pay the $2800 to go to the official Web2.0 conference this weekend. Chris Heuer decided to organize his own “unconference” to move beyond Web 2.0, to Web 2.1. […]
Big Brother is Us
I received an action alert from MoveOn today about fighting the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court: Right now we urgently need more information, and we need your help to get it. In the next few hours the Internet will fill with facts, anecdotes and rumors about Harriet Miers. We need your help […]
Collaborative selves
A couple days ago, I was trying to explain to my friend Wilfred the ideas of Latour; in particular, the notion of an iterative reality constructed via consultation. As a scientist, he was somewhat distressed by this idea, given that he believes in a Platonic reality, where there is a “real” world that we are […]
