January 23, 2005 – 12:00 am
My long-time web host, Hurricane Electric, just announced Beta support for distributing files via BitTorrent.
You can create a Torrent directory for your account, drop in the files you want distributed, and the server will automatically generate the .torrent and trackers.
Maybe it’s time to investigate video blogging.
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January 10, 2005 – 12:00 am
This Wednesday the 12th, the Ninth Street Independent Film Center in San Francisco presents a program on Storytelling and the Internet Age:
New Media
Non-Linear Expanded Cinema
Flash Animation
Interactivity
If you’re in the City for MacWorld Expo, looking for something to do Wednesday night, and you’re interested in where filmmaking may be headed, this might be worth your time.
December 31, 2004 – 12:00 am
Earth is really full of things. — The King of All Cosmos, in Katamari Damacy
It’s New Year’s Eve, and I didn’t play as much Katamari Damacy or World of Warcraft over the holiday break as I wanted. I was working on this end of the year post.
Here’s my stab at a ‘best of the web’ [...]
December 12, 2004 – 12:00 am
Update: Chris Justus has stepped through the Google Suggest script, documenting it.
Google Labs’ Suggest Service isn’t the first use of XMLHTTPRequest to supply autocompletion in search, Christian Stocker built it into the Bitflux Blog back in April of this year.
But it’s the first internet scale version of the idea.
When you search Bitflux’s blog, each keypress [...]
November 2, 2004 – 12:00 am
Politics and Markup in the same post.
Technorati’s tracking vote links.
Kevin and Tantek mentioned the idea of voting while linking at the Lossless XHTML talk last month. So they are testing it on our Election Day.
In practice: I support Kerry.
September 30, 2004 – 12:00 am
Updated with a pointer to the latest version of Tantek’s stump speech on ‘Meaningful XHTML’, and a fix to a broken glyph.
Tuesday night Kevin Marks and Tantek Çelik of Technorati gave a talk at SDForum on Semantic XHTML. Though, instead of calling it Semantic XHTML, I’d call it Lossless XHTML.
The first example Kevin walked us [...]
August 31, 2004 – 12:00 am
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig makes a daft suggestion: require adult content providers to wrap <porn> … </porn> around the naughty stuff, and direct brower developers to ignore such tags unless a parent approves.
This fails in the same way domain schemes such as .xxx or .adult fail:
There can be no universal standard for defining content [...]
August 23, 2004 – 12:00 am
Mark Bernstein lists his Hypertext Film Festival Hall of Fame in a post about Satoshi Kon’s anime thriller, Perfect Blue. Mark’s picks:
Perfect Blue
Memento
Sliding Doors
Mulholland Drive
Minority Report
Run Lola Run
Waking Life
Nashville
I’m thinking about those movies, and what makes them hypertextual.
Nonlinearity
Nearly all of these movies feature nonlinear narratives. I’d argue that Minority Report has a conventional, linear narrative, [...]
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August 16, 2004 – 12:00 am
A note of thanks to Jim Whitehead and his students (including Elias Sinderson) at UCSC for their work on Hypertext 04.
I learned a lot at the conference, and the sessions where the literary hypertext and gearheads intermeshed were mind-expanding, like David Kolb’s paper on what happens to rhetoric when you’re simultaneously creating a conventional text [...]
August 8, 2004 – 12:00 am
[ via Rafe ] FeedBurner now lets you merge your photo feed from Flickr and your del.icio.us linkstream with an XML syndication feed.
This is something I’ve wanted to sit down and write some XSLT for.
So I’ve merged Atomic Kittens, del.icio.us/whump with my full-text Atom feed: creating a shambling RSS 2.0 meta feed.
What’s not to like:
Entries, [...]
Tim Bray calls for editors that do for XHTML what Word did for other documents.
Building an XHTML editor in the browser is painful –less painful since contenteditable arrived.
Managing content through the server, however, isn’t horrible. You can point something as basic as Blosxom at a directory of markup and publish it. Using WebDAV, your operating [...]
Bill Higgins describes a technique to reconstruct the contents of a web page, behind a pay or registration wall, through Google searches for fragments of the piece cited elsewhere.
He calls the technique Dead Sea Googling in honor of biblical scholars, fed up with the refusal to publish by the clerics who had custody of the [...]
I hadn’t looked at my Trackback table in a few weeks. It was full of crap from spammers looking for Google-juice. Fortunately I could clean it out with an SQL DELETE.
But the crapflood never stops.
I’m using PubSub to search RSS/Atom feeds, and now the search results are contaminated by a new gang of spammers creating [...]
The Cassini-Huygens web team at NASA built an image browser, along the lines of the one at the Planetary Photojournal, to help us sort through the hundreds of raw images the spacecraft sends back from Saturn.
You can select from Cassini’s two cameras, any of the objects it photographed during the roundabout trip (including Venus, Earth, [...]
Last week at WisCon, Kathryn Cramer showed some of us her thinking about writing for weblogs and hypertext. She summed it up with her comment about being tired of writing on a “roll of paper towels.”
Her example was her long post on the use of private military contractors in Iraq.
What she wants is a ‘kinetic [...]
