Re "Like Online Dating, With a Political Spin" (March 13), about a Web site that organizes physical gatherings of people sharing an interest or a political cause: That a crowd gathered in support of Howard Dean's presidential candidacy because of Meetup.com instead of his campaign staff is a positive development for grass-roots participation.
These learning networks organize around shared resources like discussion boards, video repositories, archives of previous contributions, or in physical gatherings like conferences or competitions.
In the same year, Dougherty began to host physical gatherings known as "Maker Faires," billed as "part science fair, part county fair, and part something entirely new," where participants come together to learn, teach, and share their creativity and resourcefulness.
The 'internet of the day' would best resemble physical gatherings — markets, public baths, the circus — where gossip passed as people mingled.
Certainly, there is still much work to be done in finding the balance between physical gatherings of team members in the same place at the same time, versus remote working and remote collaboration.
In the lab, the nurses wait the three hours it takes for Harley to fall asleep before they can assess his brain waves, respiration and physical movements, gathering data that will be passed on to sleep physiologists.
The basic idea is to carry out a semi-physical model gathering two types of information: the a priori knowledge of the deterministic rules which govern the studied system and the observation of the actual conduct of this system obtained from experimental data.
Many of the memos created new protocols for gathering physical and electronic evidence.
For gathering physical evidence, Mr. Piernick said, the site, which is a more suburban than urban setting, was nearly perfect.
