October 25, 2005 – 10:10 pm
How Google’s ecosystem encourages spam blogs.
October 25, 2005 – 1:06 am
There’s a special election in California next month and the PR arm of the legit drug industry wanted to let me know that voting for Proposition 79 was against their interests. So much, in fact, that I’ve been spamed twice this week about the horrors of negotiating prices.
Handing the mall over to SpamCop for munging, [...]
October 23, 2005 – 11:45 pm
I get comments, on occasion, about this site’s onomatopoeic name. Now it has been used as onomatopoeia.
October 23, 2005 – 10:59 pm
Turner Classic Movies and the American Film Institute plan to launch a comprehensive film database site early next year. [ link requires Daily Variety subscription ] The site will have movie trailers, production notes, movie clips, stills, movie scripts and in-depth articles by critics and film historians. The site, tcmdb.com, is currently a blank page, [...]
October 20, 2005 – 11:12 pm
Checking on the status of a claim at my health insurer’s website, I tried signing in and got this helpful message:
At least it’s one less thing I need to remember.
October 18, 2005 – 11:44 pm
Ryan Campbell’s Four Layer Model of web development.
October 4, 2005 – 11:22 pm
Strata’s building a Ning app. Badgerbag has an unconventional one in mind.
The idea behind Ning’s interesting: construct the canonical ’social software’ web applications out of common components and PHP glue.
However, how do you get the data out? After all, supporting ‘letting go’ is part of the Web 2.0 story.
From a quick look at the documentation, [...]
September 25, 2005 – 4:35 pm
When software shows up at my door with a beer, watches What not to Wear with me on my sofa, then gets me laid afterward, that will be social software.
Jonas on stage at Webzine 2005, arguing that Social Software really is Community Software.
Oh, and don’t use the term “long tail” around him, unless you’re talking [...]
September 1, 2005 – 1:07 am
The Onion follows where Paul Ford went back in 2002.
As a part of Purge’s first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google.
This reminds me of a bit in Ian M. Banks’ Use of Weapons, where an invading power has been asked to spare a conquered world’s electronic archive. The [...]
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August 30, 2005 – 11:25 pm
Spam Blogs are a new version of an older problem.
August 25, 2005 – 11:59 pm
During last week’s now-legendary BarCamp, Strata Chalup, Liz Henry, Dierdre Moen, Mary Hodder and others discussed applying tags to physical space: places and people.
Tonight I remembered that Jo Walsh talked about a similar project: tagging London using RDF at OSCON back in 2003.
August 10, 2005 – 12:19 am
The 2.0 firmware update ships with a web browser.
I hope the browser works with Bloglines.
Then I can justify that PSP I bought in June.
Wipeout Pure comes with an HTTP widget, but it’s been hardwired for downloading patches and skins for the game.
Hopefully the update will also improve the interface for setting up 802.11b connections.
I’m at Extreme Markup Languages all this week.
Elliot Rusty Harold and Simon St Laurent have been blogging the conference in full. Here’s the presentations that grabbed me so far.
ERH showed us a tool, written in Java, for ofuscating an instance of XML so you can send it to someone as a test case without [...]
The informal microformats working group launched a site yesterday.
One of the nice features on the site are a few JavaScript-driven tools for creating markup for hReview, hCalendar, and hCard.
The Carl Brandon Society would like some web programming help.
The Society promotes Science Fiction and Fantasy by and about people of color.
They would like help setting up:
Membership registration
A bibliographic database
A weblog/lightweight CMS
If you’re interested and available, please contact Victor Raymond, vraymond@iastate.edu
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