tobedetermined!

The web in 3D

2010-08-26T05:15:51Z

(more at NASAWatch)

Stormy weather

2010-08-22T20:29:06Z

More at NASA (via)

Operations Centers

2010-08-22T01:45:41Z

European Space Operations Center (ESA/ESOC)

PAETEC Network Operations Center

We are midway between atoms and stars

2010-08-04T18:49:03Z

A good LongNow talk by Martin Rees last monday.

Bill Joy TED talk

2010-07-16T04:40:55Z

Watching this TED video made me end up watching this embedded TED talk by Bill Joy. I remember the article he refers to in Wired back in 2000, 'Why The Future Doesn't Need Us'. I believe I made 20 copies of it and handed them out to my friends in Amsterdam at a film screening I organized.

Street Food

2010-07-12T04:59:36Z

Another Great Maker Faire

2010-05-24T00:25:43Z

Where are you?

2010-05-08T19:57:44Z

Space Policipocalypse Redux

2010-04-16T15:14:38Z

Applause...lots of applause (wordle viz from Obama's speech at Kennedy yesterday).

Its The Space Policipocalypse

2010-04-15T04:07:14Z

More at WSJ (image via)

Satellites as Social Objects

2010-01-28T04:22:09Z

Thanks to my colleagues, and continuing my new found blogging paradigm 'write-until-you-publish' of 2 weeks ago, I am back at writing an ephemeral post to bring online some thoughts I see passing through my conciousness these last few days. No word smithing here, just off the bat words on paper. Like, there is so much conversation and noise about NASA and its future, I don't have much to add, except that I like what I read so far.
I'm having mexican in an obscure taqueria in South San Francisco on my way back up to the city from NASA Ames where I stayed over to watch the SOTU (State Of The Union). And watching it made me realise its very different watching these types of speeches as an outsider, because it makes you realise the 'tribal' nature of these events.
Satellites as social objects? Its a conversation I had at work earlier this week. If youtube can build a platform around video as social objects, Flickr can build a platform around photos as social objects, and Linkedin can do the same around resumes, what would be NASA's most interesting objects to build a platform around? This week's link, also as a reminder to self: Edge question 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think?

NASA Nebula, the DNA of cloud computing and challenges at NASA

2010-01-13T23:15:35Z

I'm currently sitting in Barcelona Cafe at the NASA Research Park where a group of fellow NASA Ames employees have decided to come together over lunch to get some of their most important and pressing thoughts out on the web. It's been a while since I've last blogged anything relating to the theme of this blog so, armed with my iPhone, I'm just writing away. Mind you, everyone is expected to come up with a new blogpost that goes live before you leave back to work, which, given the strong competition of Twitter where it comes to blogging is a good 'stok achter de deur' (literally, a stick behind the door...don't think it translates well in English). It's a bit of a challenge to come up with a fully fletched thorough blogpost on a iPhone (which reminds me I recently read a first 'dictated' blogpost by Fred Wilson (excuse me for not trying to hyperlink that right now on my iPhone), so I'll stick to linking to one of the most inspired pieces on the web I found over the last week. It's NASA Ames CIO Chris Kemp talking about the NASA Nebula cloud computing project, why it aims to have a positive influence on the DNA of cloud computing, and how that relates to challenges at NASA: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=249&sid=1853153 More next week...

Nicholas Carr at Google Atmosphere

2009-10-31T22:15:27Z

More videos from Atmosphere on Youtube (via)

A look in the mirror: tobedetermined on del.icio.us

2009-10-28T01:15:31Z

A wordle viz of my del.icio.us bookmarks (note: since a few months ago i've mostly set my del.icio.us bookmarks to private so this reflects my state of mind the last year or 2...)

Magical Bruce Sterling Keynote on Augmented Reality as Industry

2009-08-21T20:29:54Z

His keynote at the official Layar Reality Browser launch in Amsterdam. Easily one of the best presentations of this year. Embedded below.