The Web Ecology Project recently completed a two-week social experiment where Twitter bots tried to pass as human. This reminded me of a couple other projects related to fakery on Twitter, Truthy and Cyc AI.
Wave: A Concept for Remote Social Swimming
Small pools rigged with sensors interpret water-based interaction and spark ambient cues to encourage you to swim when others enter their pools.
Ben Shneiderman: Creativity support tools
This is live blogging coverage of Ben Shneiderman’s colloquium today, entitled: “Creativity support tools: Accelerating discovery and innovation.”