http://blogrium.com Jeff talks about various things, though nothing very specific. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It may sound like I argue semantics. It's very common for me to go into the differences between words and talk about their meaning. This has troubled me for a while because whenever I thought about it, I'd come to the conclusion I was doing something different, but I couldn't ... http://blogrium.com/2008/06/23/the-opposite-of-arguing-semantics-semantic-synthesis/ What's the difference between knowledge and information? If you want to go by dictionaries, the difference is subtle. Information is what you can acquire by observation, reading, or hearsay, with no guarantee of their validity. On the other hand, knowledge is what you can acquire by study, observation, or experience, ... http://blogrium.com/2008/06/23/knowledge-vs-information/ I'm supposed to be writing every week in Grok Systems, but my next post has been particularly harder to write in the context of my busy life. Part of this has been my obligation to write about the GDC, which I've only just recently started getting out of the way. ... http://blogrium.com/2008/03/10/confusing-emergent-behavior-with-the-mechanics-of-the-system/ Oh gee, I haven't written here in a while... tell you what, I started a new blog that's actually constrained to a topic, particularly one I'm passionate about, which means I'll be posting there a lot more often. It's called Grok Systems and the first post is on a systems ... http://blogrium.com/2008/02/03/new-blog-grok-systems/ Over the past few years I've had a growing interest in education. Something always seemed weird about the way we've been going about education with schools. My experience with school felt like it was going against the grain of education and the more research I do, the more obvious it ... http://blogrium.com/2007/07/24/education-manifesto-blogs-and-barcamp/ Super ambitious architect and designer William McDonough gave a talk at TED about designing for all children of all species for all time. He mentioned his book on the subject called Cradle to Cradle, which he points out was not printed on paper. In his deadpan sense of humor he ... http://blogrium.com/2007/05/21/all-children-all-species-for-all-time/ The Information Age is directly responsible for the modern generalist because it makes specialist knowledge so accessible. The main product of the Information Age is most undoubtably the web, which is based on ideas of linking and interconnecting across information. When it's all there and hyperlinked, you're just asking for ... http://blogrium.com/2007/05/21/a-theory-of-modern-generalism/ SuperHappyDevHouse 17 is happening this Caturday on Cinco de Mayo.I, for one, welcome our new lolcat overlords. RSVP on upcoming http://blogrium.com/2007/05/04/cinco-dev-meow-this-caturday/ There once was a command line. It was a powerful thing. Not only could you navigate your filesystem and launch applications, you could program shell scripts to automate tasks and make convenient shortcuts. One of the major sources of power there was the simple construct of input and output. A ... http://blogrium.com/2007/05/03/web-hooks-to-revolutionize-the-web/ Tonight I've been toying with the idea of personal utility and aesthetic. The way I see it, like most systems, people can be viewed as having both function and form. The idea of usefulness and emotional experience. In a more general sense, these are very interrelated things that generally work ... http://blogrium.com/2007/05/02/personal-utility-and-aesthetic/