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Collaborative Conversations: Leonardo Bonanni

Posted on August 13th by Matthew Hockenberry.
It is often difficult to capture the kind of conversations we have here at at the collaborative. This is an attempt to do that, in a quasi journalistic style. It does fail ...
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Where do ideas come from?

Posted on July 6th by Rani.
I was reading for The Rise of Modern Science and it references Einstein and his theory of relativity. It raised an interesting question about how Einstein could have come up with ...

Reycled Canvas 1.0 is Now

Posted on May 7th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Sorry for the delay but there is a lot of stuff going on here. In addition to the squeaky visual improvements and all of the basic features like: Clean simple theme in two ...
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Casual Evaluation - Shaked not stirred

Posted on May 5th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I'm a big fan of thinking about casual evaluation. As I think Piaget would agree, humans are natural experimentation engines. We actively continue to investigate the external world to better learn about ...
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Recycled Canvas Beta Report Highlights / Version 1.0

Posted on April 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
As we wind down our beta period for Recycled Canvas we're in the process of preparing an internal report of some of the results. We're planning on getting the Recycled Canvas ...
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Font Farm - Breeding Typography

Posted on April 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
genoTyp is an incredibly interesting experiment in genetic typography by Michael Schmitz. I have a strong interest in the idea of genetic algorithms and the elegance with which genoTyp allows the ...
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Thirty Tools for Web Enabled Research (or webwares of scientific method)

Posted on April 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
The first thing I should points out is that this listing is about tools for doing research through the web, NOT about doing research about the web (although you can surely use ...
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[graph-watch] Personal Pie

Posted on April 11th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Contrary to what that pretentious mac guy will tell you, you can in fact represent your life in pie charts. Craig Robinson does so quite effectively. Also: Kathy Sierra showcases the

Notes from the recycling center (week one)

Posted on March 30th by Matthew Hockenberry.
A few days into our recycled experiment and there are already some neat things happening. We've seen quite a few downloads (500 or so) of the theme both from here as well ...

Additional notes on Recycled Canvas

Posted on March 28th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I just wanted to write some additional notes to anyone downloading the theme to try out. It is customizable, and the view you see when you install it isn't the only option. The ...
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The Recycled Canvas Theme is now available! (v0.9)

Posted on March 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
If you are interested in becoming an experimenter, just download the theme+plugin and go ahead and get in touch with us. We'll give you access to our code repository and bug tracking ...
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Mousetracking for fun (but not profit)

Posted on March 15th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Creative Synthesis is now set up for mousetracking. Here is some of the activity, you can see where people held the mouse longer (bigger, darker circles). If you want to see something like ...

Be kind to the web, please recycle your research.

Posted on March 5th by Matthew Hockenberry.
As we near the target deadline for releasing our prototype recycled research project, it makes sense to talk a little bit about what we mean. Here is an overview of the project, ...