July 2008
Links for 2008 07 31 →
Shindig - opensocial and google gadgets container, open source
Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial…
Links for 2008 07 31 →
Shindig - opensocial and google gadgets container, open source
Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial…
Links for 2008 07 31 →
Shindig - opensocial and google gadgets container, open source
Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial…
Links for 2008 07 31 →
Shindig - opensocial and google gadgets container, open source
Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial…
Given up on Eclipse, now with NetBeans →
I write most of my code using vim. This winter, Kamel made me discover Eclipse.
I dislike IDEs in general because they have a tendency to force me to work in certain ways that are suboptimal….
Religions symbols in Unicode characters →
I was testing a chat system we’re creating with Extjs (amazin Javascript framework!) and I wanted to test issues with “strange” characters. So I quickly found the page of special characters on…
Religions symbols in Unicode characters →
I was testing a chat system we’re creating with Extjs (amazin Javascript framework!) and I wanted to test issues with “strange” characters. So I quickly found the page of special characters on…
Like father like daughter →
Jennie has written up a blog review of Last.fm, in particular how Last.fm uses tags to help make recommendations - she shows the tag cloud for the Jonas Brothers and even points out that the Jonas…
Religions symbols in Unicode characters →
I was testing a chat system we’re creating with Extjs (amazin Javascript framework!) and I wanted to test issues with “strange” characters. So I quickly found the page of special characters on…
Religions symbols in Unicode characters →
I was testing a chat system we’re creating with Extjs (amazin Javascript framework!) and I wanted to test issues with “strange” characters. So I quickly found the page of special characters on…
Scientific productivity tips from Hartley and ... →
Hartley and Branthwaite (1989) have done a questionnaire study of productive psychologists. They make the following recommendation for best productivity:
Make a rough plan;
Complete sections at…
Easy processing of massive data sets →
Ronnie Chaiken, Bob Jenkins, Per-Ake Larson, Bill Ramsey, Darren Shakib, Simon Weaver, and Jingren Zhou have an upcoming paper at VLDB 2008, “SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive…
Links for 2008 07 30 →
Network Weaving: Human Rights Network Mapping
Amazing report by Skye Bender-deMoll on the applications of network mapping, analysis and weaving to assist and facilitate human rights work. It…
Links for 2008 07 30 →
Network Weaving: Human Rights Network Mapping
Amazing report by Skye Bender-deMoll on the applications of network mapping, analysis and weaving to assist and facilitate human rights work. It…
Links for 2008 07 30 →
Network Weaving: Human Rights Network Mapping
Amazing report by Skye Bender-deMoll on the applications of network mapping, analysis and weaving to assist and facilitate human rights work. It…
Links for 2008 07 30 →
Network Weaving: Human Rights Network Mapping
Amazing report by Skye Bender-deMoll on the applications of network mapping, analysis and weaving to assist and facilitate human rights work. It…
Cool software design insight #1 →
I plan to progressively discuss a few things I have learned about software design during the rest of the year. Trivial things that make a big difference in your productivity. I do not claim that any…
Comcast spared the electric chair →
Bob Garfield declares victory against Comcast from his ComcastMustDie shock & awe. What, so he installed Verizon?
No, he points to stories in the Times and Post about the new Comcast…
Not so fast →
Dana Milbank hilariously skewers the presumptive Democratic nominees presumptuousness.
Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, “This is the moment … that the world is…
Uh, is that camera on? →
I hope I’m not the last to discover this: Harry Shearer complies great off-air moments of Laura Ingraham being a complete itch. If you’re a Howard Stern fan and you like those moments from Orson…
Oy →
The great cultural anomaly of the age is Jackie Mason’s popularity on YouTube. YouTube’s Steve Grove asks him questions and we see the problems with the asynch interview (questions asked…
A BBC loss →
This one confuses me: Peter Barron, editor of the BBC’s flagship news program, Newsnight, where he has done by all accounts brilliant work, is leaving to work for Google — that part wouldn’t be…
Some myths about online teaching →
Last year, I launched an online graduate course on Information Retrieval. This summer, I am preparing an online data warehousing course, my fourth online course. It will cover topics ranging from…
The consequences of opensourcing Facebook code →
Some weeks ago Facebook released its source code as Free and Open Source Software.
I’m very curious about the consequences of this action. Initially I was to suppose this choice would have…
The consequences of opensourcing Facebook code →
Some weeks ago Facebook released its source code as Free and Open Source Software.
I’m very curious about the consequences of this action. Initially I was to suppose this choice would have…
Dear Bob, →
You caused a lot of discussion in your OtM piece about comments — and that discussion itself — in the comments on WNYC’s blog, in the comments on mine, and in blogs elsewhere — is an object…
The consequences of opensourcing Facebook code →
Some weeks ago Facebook released its source code as Free and Open Source Software.
I’m very curious about the consequences of this action. Initially I was to suppose this choice would have…
Social networking wars →
Facebook, Myspace and … real life.
(found on CurrentTv but I didn’t understand how to embed a video on CurrentTv, so embedded from YouTube).
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The consequences of opensourcing Facebook code →
Some weeks ago Facebook released its source code as Free and Open Source Software.
I’m very curious about the consequences of this action. Initially I was to suppose this choice would have…
Social networking wars →
Facebook, Myspace and … real life.
(found on CurrentTv but I didn’t understand how to embed a video on CurrentTv, so embedded from YouTube).
ShareThis
Social networking wars →
Facebook, Myspace and … real life.
(found on CurrentTv but I didn’t understand how to embed a video on CurrentTv, so embedded from YouTube).
ShareThis
Social networking wars →
Facebook, Myspace and … real life.
(found on CurrentTv but I didn’t understand how to embed a video on CurrentTv, so embedded from YouTube).
ShareThis
I have seen the future and it’s in Jersey →
The Star-Ledger in New Jersey just broadcast its first live, daily noon news show on the web and I’m delighted to report that it bears no resemblance to television. That was the point.
…
Drew is a Strander →
Yes, everybody knows it by now. Drew is a Strander.
Drew is joining Strands as Community Manager / Evangelist, his job is to increase the number of Strands enthusiasts and to spread…
Coverage of the cuil search engine →
It seems that the Cuil search engine is getting reactions from almost everyone. On my blog roll, about ten people have commented on it.
Here is my verdict:
Cuil.com claims to have outdone…
Updating your model as a researcher →
Doing research is hard work. Most people make their life easier by following a model. This model is made of a series of recipes used to carry forward research projects.
There are a few reasons why…
The imperatives of the link economy →
At a Berkman center session last week about supporting investigative and international reporting — “difficult journalism,” in convener Ethan Zuckerman’s wording — I talked about the link economy…
Comments on comments on comments →
Ah, irony.
On the current On the Media, Bob Garfield launches into a screed on those who launch into screeds in online comments. He quotes Gawker — Gawker! — getting on his high-horse about…
Twitters as Sprockets →
From Thomas Knuewer on Twitter, I learned of a Twitter reading — Twitterlesung — going on as I write this in Berlin and it is streamed here if you happen to be reading this about 3p Saturday….
The Obamessiah →
Gerard Baker of the Times of London delivers a pretty hilarious retelling of the Obama story and trip to the Holy Land as a Biblical tale. Here’s the text.
Sound bites:
In the…
ISMIR 2008 Accepted Papers →
The Program Committee for ISMIR has just posted the set of accepted papers for ISMIR 2008. There are lots of really interesting looking papers. Some that look especially interesting to me:
Music…
Encouraging diversity in science →
Science follows a conservative process. It takes a long time for a fact or a law to be accepted. Several scientists must verify and reproduce the same results before acceptance is granted.
So goes…
Help with the Googlewood chapter →
I’m a little stuck on teh chapter I’m writing for my book now: Googlewood, how movies, TV, and entertainment will change thanks to Google. I have plenty to say but I need one of those great…
The church of the curmudgeon →
Chris Hedges gives a sermon from his high-church pulpit decrying the devil internet. It’s not worth the effort to fisk but it is notable for bringing together every claptrap curmudgeonly cliche…
Strands Social Player 3.2 just released →
We have just released an improved version of Nokia’s Mobile Rules! 2008 winning application, Strands Social Player 3.2, for Symbian S60 3rd Edition and J2ME (optimized for Nokia S40) devices…
There is no Santa Claus, Virginia →
In the fits of wishful thinking we hear about the fate of newspapers, one of the most common is that papers will go private and be taken off that mean and nasty stock market. But there are no white…
What is 'emo' really? →
One of the nifty new features of the recently revamped Last.fm is that every tag that ever has been applied by Last.fm users to music now has its own page that contains everything Last.fm…
Under it all →
I so like that underwear ad that’s over to the right right now that I think I might pay the advertiser to keep it. A reader complained that it is irrelevant advertising but I say: Isn’t underwear…
Google competes with the internet →
Google’s hubris may have finally gotten the better of them. See this from the official Google blog about the launch of Knol, the Wikipedia-About.com-Associated-Content it just officially…
Wordle it →
(This is a restored post; comments lost).
I’ve been having fun playing with Wordle. This is a visualization of Buzzmachine as of yesterday, when I had a fair amount about NPR and radio. One…