Peter Ferne's Comments

BRUG : BRUG 10

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:43:11 +0000

It's also our anniversary — the very first BRUG meeting was Thu 30 Oct 2008. I think we should celebrate!

BRUG : BRUG 10

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:39:48 +0000

There is also an upcoming event for your calendars.

Bus-Tops : Bus-Tops - a call to artists!

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:56:37 +0000

As well as allowing artists to submit images or short video loops how about also supporting generative visualisations, for example by accepting Processing sketches?

BRUG : Testing markdown

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:37:08 +0000

Lush code highlighting!

Scrump : Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:08:58 +0000

Dan I like your metaphor a lot. I have been thinking that whuffie shouldn't be a 'limited resource', in the sense that there is a hard limit on how much you can 'give' to people, on the basis that if you were too profligate with your giving it would be devalued anyway. The notion of damping inflation and gaming by linking it to some renewable but finite and non-physical resource, especially one so personal, is very interesting. Thanks for the heads up on the openid issues, I'll try and take a look at it soon.

Scrump : Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:32:18 +0000

Ale I think you're absolutely right that there is a lot of relevant stuff out there that's not web-centric. And it's important to keep in mind the personal, even intimate, nature of what makes up our social capital. Some of that might not be stuff we are comfortable sharing publicly. But hopefully something web-centric can both accommodate altruism and cooperation that actually happens online (and off), and perhaps extend the reach of where we can 'use' social capital instead of money. Perhaps you could think of it as a global LETS scheme?