Comments for Intwo

Comment on Learn Physical Computing the InstantSOUP Way by connor

connor — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:50:29 +0000

Hey Tony, I realize that this is from quite a while ago, so sorry if you have moved on. We haven’t been updating intwo is much for a long time, and so I just came across your comment now.

I have found the link that you are referring to, and it is on the InstantSOUP website, which we are not in control of. If I am correct, though, the address that you are looking for is this:

http://wiring.org.co/

Good luck in your learning!

Comment on Learn Physical Computing the InstantSOUP Way by Tony

Tony — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:32:38 +0000

Hello, I am not a student in a university program of any kind. I am however interested in learning interactive design and electronics. I am a complete beginner so your website appealed to me since I cannot find anything else out there like it. When I tried to follow the link to download the “Wiring” software I was just sent to a page saying there was an error. Is there another way for me to download the software?

Comment on Grids in CSSEdit by bestgirls.com.ua

bestgirls.com.ua — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:18:42 +0000

What’s another word for “thesaurus”?

Comment on Austin Makerfaire 2008 by Connor

Connor — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:53:52 +0000

I thought that this was kinda cool: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/maker-faire-heads-to-africa.php

Comment on Ishmael by tony

tony — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:21:24 +0000

for real. read it not too long ago. changed my life

Comment on Your TV Feed by Per

Per — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:08:43 +0000

upl8.tv/ is awesome – youtube has too many distractions to be operated late at night – just enter a keyword after the slash and you have themed “random internet nonsense”.

The only thing lacking is a link to the video that plays – but i appreciate the minimalism.

Comment on Your TV Feed by connor

connor — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:33:58 +0000

I know this isn’t necessarily the same, but it is amusing.

http://upl8.tv

Comment on Your TV Feed by per

per — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:59:27 +0000

I decided not to pursue this project, as I ran into too many problems. For one, RSS and Atom feeds do not include links to videos in posts, so there is no easy way to crawl a large number of weblogs to collect statistical information.

If anyone has any input on a project of this type, I am still interested in giving it a go.

Comment on Take Action by per

per — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:55:50 +0000

For me, it's partly a matter of being lazy, and partly of not being able to decide what is worth putting time into. Most information your receive just don't have the authenticity and weight necessary to make you care enough, because it's coming from whomever, not from someone that you trust.

A large reason that the Internet doesn't inspire me to take action, though, is that it's not personal. There's no eye-to-eye communication on forums, and i don't care to listen to people and their opinions on youtube.

I need humans around me to be inspired to take action. In the right group of people, I can take on almost any feat. For me, the work starts with finding this group of people.

Comment on Take Action by connor

connor — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:40:50 +0000

Knowledge inspires me to take action. Well I suppose knowledge coupled with empathy for life. But I find the step by step approach that you are presenting to be really interesting. I see the approach as being linear and sequential, and thus all other parts of the equation rely on 'collecting the evidence'.

I feel as though the way the way that we collect evidence is changing, and thus could mean for a drastic change on how people take action.

At one point in time, credibility of knowledge that you came across had a lot to do with trust in character. Knowledge would spread via word of mouth and people would have trust in the knowledge that they came across because they trusted their family and friends. Moreover, the people that were spreading the information to you, most likely were sharing the information because they cared for you. Unfortunately, people would sometimes get taken advantage of, as checking the sources of the information that you came across would have been a big feat. I do feel that at this point, though, that people were more inspired to take action because there was more trust in the information

As humans developed new ways of being efficient, information sources took hold of methods of mass communication, thus breaking the need for the word of mouth. Though this allowed people to more conveniently receive larger amounts of information, the source of the information no longer filtered it for you because it cared, but rather saw you as a valuable resource for it's own incentives. Over time, I think people began figuring this out and learned to distrust their information.

The distrust in information is what breaks the process to action. Without trusting the information that you are receiving, you will always be hesitant in moving forward to action.

The potential change that I see happening is via the internet. The internet is not only an expansive source of information, but as it stands is also completely user defined. People not only provide the information on the web but people also can choose their own paths through the information. Information is once again more easily filtered through social resources, allowing you to make better judgement on the information that you finding.

The problem now, is that it isn't efficient enough... well and a lot of people seem to be somewhat lazy and complacent...