CharlieStross’s rant On the attention economy was a nice read. How spammers catch up, how spam filtering is an endless arms-race, where it is going to end, how advertisement and spam are just different points on the same slope, etc.
I also found an article on his site called “Inside the MIT Media Lab”:
The Fab Lab – personal fabrication – includes a CAD workstation, a modified vinyl cutter able to carve circuit boards, a computer-controlled milling machine, an FPGA programmer, and may eventually include a 3D printer and other machine tools. One important element they’re working on is a library of electronic components, royalty-free, than the system can be used to handle various tasks. Using FPGA (field programmable gate array) chips means the system can contain sophisticated electronics – FPGAs are designed to be reconfigured at the hardware level to emulate arbitrary circuits, all the way up to an ARM processor. The Fab Lab team are trying to develop a system comprehensive enough that any one Fab Lab can be used to build copies of itself, and they’re looking at a hardware design strategy akin to the GPL (GNU General Public License) – spin offs such as Project Pengachu give a feel for how they’re thinking these tools can be used. ¹
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Kenneth Tyler of SeedWiki thinks about fab labs and analogies to wikis. We talked about it a bit at RecentChangesCamp.
– BayleShanks 2006-02-14 01:10 UTC