http://www.sincretico.net Mashing up disciplines and cultures Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:00:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just stumbled upon this wonderful piece of chorinho. Unfortunately, the flautist, Camunguelo passed away not so long ago. As I go about doing my research about Brazilian music on the Web 2.0, I happen to come across many interesting things. I just wish I will find some time to ... http://www.sincretico.net/2008/06/18/camunguelo/ I just came across this little pearl: Rio - The Magnificent. A FitzPatrick Traveltalk. Of course this shows only the nice sides of those times. But if one just look at the state, or the lack of State, that Rio is today... Via: Rio em Disco http://www.sincretico.net/2008/06/10/rio-the-magnificent/ My relatively short research about different categories of knowledge has led to me to conclude that there are only two kinds: scientific and non-scientific knowledge. The former is objective and considered as true knowledge, the latter is everything else: everyday knowledge, narrative, culture, personal knowledge, ideology, common sense, religion, and ... http://www.sincretico.net/2008/06/05/the-growth-of-cultural-knowledge-and-the-use-of-creative-commons-licenses/ It's been hard to find time to write about anything nowadays... Today I'm using the blog truly as a way of organizing my thoughts. I am having a bit of a hassle to organize my notes about networks and the spread of information. There are a couple of dimensions to cover. ... http://www.sincretico.net/2008/05/28/public-note-taking-some-things-about-networks/ I've been researching for the past weeks whether knowledge is able to grow within social contexts. Throughout the literature that I came across, there is a stark distinction between scientific and non-scientific knowledge. Philosophers of science such as Popper don't even consider the product of the "episteme" to be knowledge ... http://www.sincretico.net/2008/05/21/knowledge-only-grows-when-its-communicated/ Kind of continuing on the previous post about the creation of new knowledge. Lilia Efimova has wrote some interesting papers on the nature of blogging and it's relation to knowledge. Although writing from the perspective of knowledge management within organizations, she establishes interesting concepts in which blogging may be useful ... http://www.sincretico.net/2008/05/01/blogging-as-a-way-of-organizing-your-thoughts/ Does the Web 2.0 actually increase the stock of knowledge held by those with access to it, or does it maintain the existing level and merely transmits it? Me and my Thesis supervisor, Prof. Paolo Paolini at the University of Lugano, haven't really arrived yet at any conclusion. I set ... http://www.sincretico.net/2008/05/01/does-sharing-knowledge-create-new-knowledge/ I just came accross this brilliant quote from George Bernard Shaw, Irish literary critic and playwright, literature Nobel laureate in 1925. “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an ... http://www.sincretico.net/2008/04/23/apples-and-ideas/ In this part I will present an analysis of the data presented on part 2. Below are some charts which I will comment on at the bottom of the post. The analysis is strictly related to this simple scenario. General data for both searches (blog and news) Chart 1: entries per day ... http://www.sincretico.net/2008/04/22/research-methodology-based-on-rss-feeds-and-social-bookmarking-part-3-analysis/ I just stumbled upon this video of a water balloon exploding shot with a high-speed camera, at 2,000 frames per second, just madness. Just to imagine how much beauty is out there that we just miss. Via: Jerz's Literacy Weblog http://www.sincretico.net/2008/04/22/we-dont-see-it-but-its-there/