L-R Flow(aka Rhythm Travel)

Gaming 3.0, Women and the Cultural Coming of Age of the Internet

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:56:45 -0700

I've Been Posting To The Meshverse Journal

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:43:46 -0700

I've been pretty quiet but busy through the winter but it's almost spring :-) I will sometimes crosspost here but if you want to stay in the MJ flow follow it on Twitter or FriendFeed. Alternately if you want the full text subscribe to the blog.

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Before The Web: My Encounters With The 3 Spin Doctors

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:12:28 -0700

A brief intro to how satellite communications paved the way for the web. From Lazy Bird Rising

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What It Is: Amiri Baraka Recites Rhythm Travel

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:33:35 -0700

I've never had the pleasure of meeting the one and only Amiri Baraka but I swear I saw him peepin in the window of my lab! Enjoy what is about the best 1 page piece of sci-fi I've ever read :-)

Amiri Baraka: Rhythm Travel by Pen American Center
Download now or listen on posterous

rhythm_travel.mp3 (783 KB)

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Scopes - An Interactive Tool for Smalltalk

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:38:12 -0700

Both beginning and expert Smalltalk programmers should find Scopes useful.

I recently came across a reference to a powerful observation

Trying to get your head around smalltalk without using the IDE is like going to Paris and eating at McDonalds. Sure, you’re in Paris, but you aren’t really exposing yourself to what it’s all about.

Great quote about the Smalltalk IDE

This point could be made even stronger by substituting “creating and interacting with objects” for “using the IDE” because too often, the role of IDE is reduced to browsing and editing source code. A fundamental way of interacting with objects is by examining their properties. One of the early Smalltalk-80 books, The Interactive Programming Environment(available here) devotes an entire chapter to the Inspector. In Smalltalk Programming for Windows we said:

Next to the CHB, the Inspector is the most useful window in the Smalltalk /V for Windows environment.

However for complex objects, the process of opening and navigating multiple inspectors becomes unweildy. In Squeak the ObjectExplorer emerged in large part to address this problem. In recent releases, ObjectExplorer gained icons which make it even more useful but in some situations ObjectExplorer is overkill. Often one is examining an object but not interested in all or any of its instance variables. For example with Morphs, one is often most interested in the hierarchical structure. MorphHierarchy does a nice job in this regard but is hard-wired to view the entire Morph tree starting with the World. More significantly, MorphHierarchy doesn’t provide a workspace and menu to facilitate interaction, nor does it work with non-Morph objects. Scopes are intended to provide a flexible tool that combines the best of all worlds. The current code is in mixed state of development. Scopes have been simplified and extracted from earlier environments I’d created. CompositeScopes are in solid beta form and very useful right now

but ObjectScopes have much more work to do in their current incarnation. ObjectSccopes are more sophisticated and holistic because the only distinction made amongst properties is whether or not they are executable. Scopes also provide a means of filtering which objects and properties are shown. I’ll post updates here as they occur.

Scopes: Beyond The Inspector and Object Explorer « The Smalltalk Journal

Feedback is encouraged!

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Shifting The Flow Part 2 - Bumps in the road

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:11:20 -0700

Some formatting and popped up in the last post.

The really interesting thing about the posts I'm making now is that one post appears in many places automatically. In my last post I linked to the posts on lrgriot but it also went to other sites like http://www.twitter.com/meshverse

It's worth the price so fasten your seatbelts. :-)

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Shifting The Flow

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:59:24 -0700

I have a great many areas of activity and interest that overlap but also need multiple outlets.

In addition folks who may be interested in my work are scattered across different social networks. I have over the past decade experimented with many different tools to help get information to the right people at the right time in a manner they are familiar with. This tends to be a very time consuming task so I've also been developing a few tools of my own which the recent growth of Facebook, Twitter and now Posterous has created a perfect storm for. So in the coming days and weeks you'll be seeing a new surge in activity from me across multiple networks - some of which will dive into the details of what this new flow is about and how you can tap into it.

Right now, you can follow my work here or on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and Posterous.

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Yet Another Visual Twitter Test Post

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:37:20 -0700

I was impressed with:

Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer

This is so cool. Check out my network via Mailana.
So you can put in your Twitter handle, your location or a search term like say "e-learning" and you get this awesome visual map back.

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Another Visual Twitter Test Post

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:30:47 -0700

I was impressed with:

Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer

This is so cool. Check out my network via Mailana.
So you can put in your Twitter handle, your location or a search term like say "e-learning" and you get this awesome visual map back.

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Another Visual Twitter Test Post

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:27:53 -0700

Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer

This is so cool. Check out my network via Mailana.
So you can put in your Twitter handle, your location or a search term like say "e-learning" and you get this awesome visual map back.

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formatting test

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:56:44 -0700

... sending as plain text ... this should be bold

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Test Post By Web

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:03:44 -0700

I want to see if this triggers autoposts

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Test Direct To

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:47:35 -0700

lrgriot.posterous.com

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test from lrgriot

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:26:45 -0700

to see if subscription is working

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Testing Resumes

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:01:32 -0700

Download now or listen on posterous

Memo.m4a (597 KB)

Sent from my iPhone

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Shifting The Flow

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:59:13 -0700

I've got lots of posts queued up here this morning ready to start testing my new approach to flowing content over different services but with the still ongoing Twitter and Facebook outages, I'm going to hold off until I can confirm that things are working as expected. I also don't know what will happen with autoposts under these conditions so I don't want to create a lot of extra work.

L-R Flow(aka Rhythm Travel)

Gaming 3.0, Women and the Cultural Coming of Age of the Internet

I've Been Posting To The Meshverse Journal

Before The Web: My Encounters With The 3 Spin Doctors

What It Is: Amiri Baraka Recites Rhythm Travel

Scopes - An Interactive Tool for Smalltalk

Shifting The Flow Part 2 - Bumps in the road

Shifting The Flow

Yet Another Visual Twitter Test Post

Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer

Another Visual Twitter Test Post

Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer

Another Visual Twitter Test Post

Mailana's Awesome Visual Twitter Explorer

formatting test

Test Post By Web

Test Direct To

test from lrgriot

Testing Resumes

Shifting The Flow

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