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Stefano’s Linotype » Data Smoke and Mirrors
by karlcow
L'utilité pratique d'un système est souvent inversement proportionnelle à la popularité de la technique utilisée pour le système. Le plus souvent les personnes oublient de répondre à la question : « Quels sont les enjeux que vous tentez de résoudre ? »This places everybody trying to make the web of data happening in danger of oper-promising and under-delivering, which is not a recipe for success: it’s a recipe for abuse, mistrust and anger… which ultimately leads to disaster and failure.
Yesterday
Dynamic Diagrams : Information Design Watch : The Virtue of Forgetting
by karlcow
Now today there are few human beings who, for biological reasons, cannot forget. What sounds like a blessing, they certainly do remember where they parked their car in a shopping mall. It turns out that they have tremendous difficulties in acting in time, in deciding in time, because they remember all their bad, failed decisions in the past, and therefore hesitate to make a decision in the present.
pyquery: a jquery-like library for python — pyquery v0.3 documentation
by karlcow
pyquery allows you to make jquery queries on xml documents. The API is as much as possible the similar to jquery. pyquery uses lxml for fast xml and html manipulation.
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05 November 2009
Wolfram|Alpha
by rmaltete
& 13 others
(via)
04 November 2009
02 November 2009
Sunlight Labs
by karlcow
We're a community of open source developers and designers dedicated to opening up our government to make it more transparent, accountable and responsible. We need your help.
01 November 2009
Adobe is Bad for Open Government
by marco
tuesday intentions
by blackgoldfish
28 October 2009
27 October 2009
Use WordPress As a CMS: Plugins, The Bare Minimum
by mozkart
26 October 2009
Learning from Shogun
by Takwann
(via)
Peter Kenny (ebookmountain) on Twitter
by tadeufilippini
& 1 other
24 October 2009
Rattle » What we do
by karlcow
People are increasingly living digital lives. We do research to understand how to make that life better for individuals and organisations. Our core services are listed below:
23 October 2009
Mozilla Labs » Raindrop
by parmentierf
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page 100
by blackgoldfish
22 October 2009
Official Google Blog: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my!
by srcmax
Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months
21 October 2009
openhandle - Project Hosting on Google Code
by parmentierf
(via)
20 October 2009
inudge.net - Nudge
by oqdbpo
Internet Archive: A Future for Books -- BookServer
by karlcow
The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet. Built on open catalog and open book formats, the BookServer model allows a wide network of publishers, booksellers, libraries, and even authors to make their catalogs of books available directly to readers through their laptops, phones, netbooks, or dedicated reading devices. BookServer facilitates pay transactions, borrowing books from libraries, and downloading free, publicly accessible books.
19 October 2009
17 October 2009
MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 2 | MySQL Performance Blog
by karlcow
A couple of good things to remember here: #1 resolving 1 bottleneck can open another bottleneck that is much worse. #2 is to understand that not all API’s are created equal. Additionally the configuration and setup that works well on one system may not work well on another. Because of this people often leave lots of performance on the table. Don’t just trust that your current API or config is optimal, test and make sure it fits your application.
