February 15, 2010
Pixelnode is a plug-in that enables lighting and multimedia designers to turn Apple’s Quartz Composer into a powerful live media-server, controllable via DMX lighting consoles. Pixelnode uses the Art-Net protocol to give users access to one universe (512 channels) of DMX data directly from a Quartz Composer patch. This makes it instantly compatible with tons of existing hardware and software on the market. What’s Quartz Composer? Quartz Composer is an application for Mac OS X that provides a visual programming environment geared towards live-performance and installations. It’s very deep software which is limited only by an artist’s imagination. Users must download Quartz Composer as a part of the Mac OS X developer kit, which can be done at: http://developer.apple.com Use with Luminair Pixelnode is a perfect visual companion for Luminair, our wireless DMX controller for the iPhone and iPod touch. Within seconds you can have a light show complete with visual elements, all running from the world’s leading multi-touch DMX controller. (via Synthe FX - Pixelnode - DMX input for Quartz Composer + iTunes)

Pixelnode is a plug-in that enables lighting and multimedia designers to turn Apple’s Quartz Composer into a powerful live media-server, controllable via DMX lighting consoles. Pixelnode uses the Art-Net protocol to give users access to one universe (512 channels) of DMX data directly from a Quartz Composer patch. This makes it instantly compatible with tons of existing hardware and software on the market. What’s Quartz Composer? Quartz Composer is an application for Mac OS X that provides a visual programming environment geared towards live-performance and installations. It’s very deep software which is limited only by an artist’s imagination. Users must download Quartz Composer as a part of the Mac OS X developer kit, which can be done at: http://developer.apple.com Use with Luminair Pixelnode is a perfect visual companion for Luminair, our wireless DMX controller for the iPhone and iPod touch. Within seconds you can have a light show complete with visual elements, all running from the world’s leading multi-touch DMX controller. (via Synthe FX - Pixelnode - DMX input for Quartz Composer + iTunes)

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William Kentridge - Johannesburg (1989) (via ead1529)

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Tahoe-LAFS is a p2p filesystem. You pool your spare hard drive space together with that of your friends. This forms a distributed filesystem which endures even if some of your friends’ computers are unreachable. Everything is automatically encrypted, so backing up your files onto the distributed filesystem doesn’t necessarily mean sharing the files with your friends. But, it is easy to share specific files or directories with specific friends. It comes with a command-line interface and a web interface. If you choose, you can allow remote HTTP clients to connect to the web interface. We’ve configured our test grid to do that so that you can take Tahoe-LAFS for a test drive just by clicking here. (via Tahoe-LAFS: a P2P filesystem that lets you use the cloud without trusting it Boing Boing)

Tahoe-LAFS is a p2p filesystem. You pool your spare hard drive space together with that of your friends. This forms a distributed filesystem which endures even if some of your friends’ computers are unreachable. Everything is automatically encrypted, so backing up your files onto the distributed filesystem doesn’t necessarily mean sharing the files with your friends. But, it is easy to share specific files or directories with specific friends. It comes with a command-line interface and a web interface. If you choose, you can allow remote HTTP clients to connect to the web interface. We’ve configured our test grid to do that so that you can take Tahoe-LAFS for a test drive just by clicking here. (via Tahoe-LAFS: a P2P filesystem that lets you use the cloud without trusting it Boing Boing)

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Sociotechnical systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sociotechnical systems

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Socio-technical systems)

Sociotechnical systems (or STS) in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also refers to the interaction between society’s complex infrastructures and human behaviour. In this sense, society itself, and most of its substructures, are complex sociotechnical systems. The term sociotechnical systems was coined in the 1960s by Eric Trist and Fred Emery, who were working as consultants at the Tavistock Institute inLondon.

Sociotechnical systems theory is theory about the social aspects of people and society and technical aspects of machines and technology. Sociotechnical refers to the interrelatedness of social and technical aspects of an organisation. Sociotechnical theory therefore is about joint optimization, with a shared emphasis on achievement of both excellence in technical performance and quality in people’s work lives. Sociotechnical theory, as distinct from sociotechnical systems, proposes a number of different ways of achieving joint optimisation. They are usually based on designing different kinds of organisation, ones in which the relationships between socio and technical elements lead to the emergence of productivity and wellbeing.

Sociotechnical refers to the interrelatedness of social and technical aspects of an organization.

(Here is where it get’s interesting…)

Sociotechnical theory is founded on two main principles:

  • One is that the interaction of social and technical factors creates the conditions for successful (or unsuccessful) organizational performance. This interaction is comprised partly of linear ‘cause and effect’ relationships (the relationships that are normally ‘designed’) and partly from ‘non-linear’, complex, even unpredictable relationships (the good or bad relationships that are often unexpected). Whether designed or not, both types of interaction occur when socio and technical elements are put to work.
  • The corollary of this, and the second of the two main principles, is that optimisation of each aspect alone (socio or technical) tends to increase not only the quantity of unpredictable, ‘un-designed’ relationships, but those relationships that are injurious to the system’s performance.
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FAVORITE FINE ARTIST? Michael Oatman (via Doug Bartow | January 2010 Issue | Graphic Design USA)

FAVORITE FINE ARTIST? Michael Oatman (via Doug Bartow | January 2010 Issue | Graphic Design USA)

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February 9, 2010
Michelle Malkin  » A better “Miss Me Yet?” billboard

Michelle Malkin  » A better “Miss Me Yet?” billboard

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www.nerdycats.com “Going to the moon, brb.”

www.nerdycats.com

“Going to the moon, brb.”

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hipsterpuppies: sam says the greenberg preview has “ruined lcd soundsystem for him forever” [photo via ryan]

hipsterpuppies:

sam says the greenberg preview has “ruined lcd soundsystem for him forever”

[photo via ryan]

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WARNING!!  May lead to appendicitis.  In a biased and under-populated study of 2, 50% of consumers lost their appendix. litter: Pizza Taco Bacon Cheeseburger 1.0 Recipe to follow.

WARNING!!  May lead to appendicitis.  In a biased and under-populated study of 2, 50% of consumers lost their appendix.

litter:

Pizza Taco Bacon Cheeseburger 1.0

Recipe to follow.

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February 8, 2010
National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com

Curious Chimp notices a remote camera and investigates.  Pretty damn cute.

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Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool (Part 2) (via Jangaboo)

skip to 3:00ish for the david icke interview.  :)

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February 7, 2010

Parisian Love (via SearchStories) awwwww….. snfl

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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. (via Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds)

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. (via Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds)

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SonicScoop – Creative, Technical & Business Connections For NYC’s Music & Sound Community SonicScoop is a pioneering online destination that provides New York City’s thriving music and sound production community with a vital central hub. A comprehensive media company, SonicScoop was founded by two of the music industry’s leading technology journalists — Janice Brown (EQ, Mix, Pro Sound News) and David Weiss (NYC Editor, Mix) — and web + audio specialist/CTO Mark Kondracki (OutLoud Audio,JumpNYC). SonicScoop is sharply focused on covering and connecting area production/engineering talent and facilities with the thousands of artists and projects that make NYC a leading creative center for music and sound. SonicScoop is constantly launching new creative, technical and revenue-building opportunities for its users, as its audience comes together online, at sponsored events, and via their own projects. Driven by world-class multimedia reporting, SonicScoop’s content is bolstered by a dynamic Opportunities Marketplace that provides artists, engineer/producers, and audio facilities with connections to available jobs, equipment, studio space and much more. The ideal merger of regional focus and global appeal, SonicScoop is designed to be a premier music and sound production resource.

SonicScoop – Creative, Technical & Business Connections For NYC’s Music & Sound Community

SonicScoop is a pioneering online destination that provides New York City’s thriving music and sound production community with a vital central hub. A comprehensive media company, SonicScoop was founded by two of the music industry’s leading technology journalists — Janice Brown (EQ, Mix, Pro Sound News) and David Weiss (NYC Editor, Mix) — and web + audio specialist/CTO Mark Kondracki (OutLoud Audio,JumpNYC).

SonicScoop is sharply focused on covering and connecting area production/engineering talent and facilities with the thousands of artists and projects that make NYC a leading creative center for music and sound.

SonicScoop is constantly launching new creative, technical and revenue-building opportunities for its users, as its audience comes together online, at sponsored events, and via their own projects.

Driven by world-class multimedia reporting, SonicScoop’s content is bolstered by a dynamic Opportunities Marketplace that provides artists, engineer/producers, and audio facilities with connections to available jobs, equipment, studio space and much more.

The ideal merger of regional focus and global appeal, SonicScoop is designed to be a premier music and sound production resource.

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January 28, 2010
If you’re gonna dedicate your life and livelihood to projectors, you’d better be able to deliver something beyond the same old, same old. That said, Projectiondesign — who’s offered up devices for “harsh environments” and 3D in the past — has clearly outdone itself with the FR12 Remote Light Source (RLS) projector. This bad boy places the lamp and cooling fan in a rack-mounted enclosure, which you can then put someplace safely out of the way (and easily accessible). The light source is then free to be mounted on the ceiling somewhere, where it’s fed images via 30m liquid light guide (similar to a fiber optic cable, but, you know, with liquid). No longer will you have to grab a ladder when it comes time to change a bulb! No word yet on price or availability, but you can expect to get all that at the big reveal during ISE 2010 this February. (via Projectiondesign’s Remote Light Source projector puts the lamp in a cool, faraway place — Engadget)

If you’re gonna dedicate your life and livelihood to projectors, you’d better be able to deliver something beyond the same old, same old. That said, Projectiondesign — who’s offered up devices for “harsh environments” and 3D in the past — has clearly outdone itself with the FR12 Remote Light Source (RLS) projector. This bad boy places the lamp and cooling fan in a rack-mounted enclosure, which you can then put someplace safely out of the way (and easily accessible). The light source is then free to be mounted on the ceiling somewhere, where it’s fed images via 30m liquid light guide (similar to a fiber optic cable, but, you know, with liquid). No longer will you have to grab a ladder when it comes time to change a bulb! No word yet on price or availability, but you can expect to get all that at the big reveal during ISE 2010 this February. (via Projectiondesign’s Remote Light Source projector puts the lamp in a cool, faraway place — Engadget)

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