Date: 24 January 2014 Location: Coffee Culture, Rangiora (South Island, New Zealand) Time: 1.37pm Protagonists: Sally Pewhairangi and Paul Brown Reality: Not quite the same as it was this month back in 2013 And so here we are, back where it all started. Sally: Wow, what a year (and a bit with GST). Paul: So Sally, will you be irretrievably lost…
Tag: 1Q84
Watched Over By the Loving Grace of the Computational Engine: Mechanical Turks, Deconstructing Penguins and the Delayed Gratification Climax
By Paul Brown Foreword ’A profession requiring specialized techniques and training’ Part of the bargain struck in a Rangiora café with Sally back on January 1, was that requiring the composition of a second blog post as part of our joint 1Q84 Reading Map project. (He’s a lucky guy who has a project manager as…
A Profession Requiring Specialised Training And Techniques
Reading Maps: In Context In his last post Paul shared his views on reading maps: In Reading Maps we find the intersection of Combinatorial Creativity, Data Visualisation, Quality Curated Products, Imaginative Interrogation of Texts, Networked Knowledge Gathering and Collaborative Connection Hunting. If you’re like me and don’t use too many big words one after the…
The 1Q84 Files: An RA Investigation
Date: 1 January 2013 Location: Coffee Culture, Rangiora (South Island, New Zealand) Time: 11.37am Protagonists: Sally Pewhairangi and Paul Brown BEFORE THE BEGINNING [In which Paul only gets slapped once.] Sally: Hey Paul. Happy New Year! What about this for a project? Some of my friends on Twitter have been doing reading challenges last year,…