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June 2009

Google Data APIs - Google Code

by holyver (via)
The Google Data APIs provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web. These REST-style APIs are based on the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub), using the standard Atom syndication format to represent data and HTTP to handle communication. The Google Data API protocol also extends AtomPub for processing queries, authentication, batch requests, and providing alternate output formats (JSON, RSS). Many Google services support the Google Data API protocol

Google Data APIs Overview - Google Data APIs - Google Code

by holyver
The Google Data APIs provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web. The Data APIs use either of two standard XML-based syndication formats: Atom or RSS. They also have a feed-publishing system that consists of the Atom publishing protocol plus some extensions (using Atom's standard extension model) for handling queries.

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May 2009

An SVG Primer

by Yann_L & 2 others
This is neither an introductory text book, nor a reference manual. Instead, it is aimed so that any of these people : * an upper division undergraduate student with a few semesters under her belt of computing coursework; * a professional web programmer; * a graphic designer with a strong technical bent; or * a science teacher who wants to build graphical presentations might be able to pick it up and then do any or all of the following: * work through it over the course of a few days, developing a basic understanding; * be able, in a week or two, to make a decent graphical front-end to a web site that demands innovative and interactive graphics; * at any time during the next year or two of work with SVG, be able to pick up the book, look up a new topic, and with little effort, find an illustration of what they'd like to know about and with a minimum of reading, to be able to make sense of the examples provided.

About

by karlcow

Often when reading a typical article or interview we are left unmoved, unenlightened and uninspired. Formulaic and sterile conversations prevent responses or expression from going beyond surface level. Wading through the mundane to find the truly good stuff in life can be a struggle, but it is far worse to not even bother trying. A ‘selector’ is one that singles out something in particular. In the case of this bi-annual publication, we focus on the idea of truth with the aim of portraying the honesty and sincerity of both the individuals and places we choose to examine. We are coming together to celebrate those who have gone above and beyond what’s expected – individuals who have dedicated their lives to something great. Selector’s objective is to present open dialogues with substance, to take a momentary break from busy lives to share some of the sights and sounds encountered by those pursuing the uncommon

googletransitdatafeed - Google Code

by karlcow

The GoogleTransitDataFeed Open Source Software project is an effort to offer tools for reading, writing, and converting to and from the Google Transit Feed Specification format, to help make public transit information projects more successful for agencies and other interested parties.

The project currently offers code for working with transit data in the Java and Python languages.

Selector Publishing

by karlcow

Often when reading a typical article or interview we are left unmoved, unenlightened and uninspired. Formulaic and sterile conversations prevent responses or expression from going beyond surface level. Wading through the mundane to find the truly good stuff in life can be a struggle, but it is far worse to not even bother trying. A ‘selector’ is one that singles out something in particular. In the case of this bi-annual publication, we focus on the idea of truth with the aim of portraying the honesty and sincerity of both the individuals and places we choose to examine. We are coming together to celebrate those who have gone above and beyond what’s expected – individuals who have dedicated their lives to something great. Selector’s objective is to present open dialogues with substance, to take a momentary break from busy lives to share some of the sights and sounds encountered by those pursuing the uncommon.

2point8 » Ways of Working

by karlcow

Ways of Working is a series of articles I wrote in 2005 about the practice of street photography. The pieces are highly subjective, and are the result of much shooting, note taking, and general time wasting. I hope they prove to be of value, however small. Thanks for reading.

April 2009

Stanza Desktop: A Revolution in Reading | Lexcycle

by sbrothier (via)
Featuring a clean, well-organized interface, Stanza Desktop is expressly designed for reading digital publications, including electronic books, newspapers, PDFs, and general web content. Stanza Desktop is built from the ground up to make reading on your Macintosh or Windows laptop or desktop an enjoyable and hassle-free experience. It gives special attention to details that are usually overlooked in other software readers such as hyphenation, text columnation, automatic text scrolling, and user-friendly page and chapter navigation. Lengthy content that can be tedious to read using a web browser or PDF viewer is easy and natural with Stanza Desktop.

Stanza: a Revolution in Reading | Lexcycle

by sbrothier & 1 other
Stanza is a free application for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Use it to download from a vast selection of over 100,000 books and periodicals, and read them right on your phone. It’s a wireless electronic library that stays open 24/7.

How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com

by karlcow & 1 other

How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write

Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone

MIT Media Lab: Design Ecology / Information Ecology

by karlcow

Would you know if a dear, but seldom seen, friend happened to be on the same train as you? The proximeter is both an agent that tracks the past and future proximity of one’s social cloud, and an instrument that charts this in an ambient display. By reading existing calendar and social network feeds of others, and abstracting these into a glanceable pattern of paths, we hope to nuture within users a social proprioception and nudge them toward more face-to-face interactions when opportunities arise.

code, circuits, & construction :: Reading Mifare RFID Tags

by karlcow

This tutorial explains how to read from Mifare RFID tags from your computer using a Sonmicro SM130 read/write module. The sketch below is written in Processing using my SonmicroReader library. The SM130 has a TTL serial interface that you can connect to a micocontroller, or to a personal computer through a USB-to-serial interface. Using the latter, it’s pretty simple to send serial commands to it and receive the data back. The entire Processing sketch can be downloaded here: rfid_simple_0001.

Hello, Twitter | stopdesign

by sbrothier & 1 other
Yes, it’s true. After reading a bit of speculation over the past few weeks, I’ll confirm here that I am, indeed, joining Twitter. I don’t remember ever being as eager or excited to start a new job as I’ve been with this one. (Thus, why I only took one week off between jobs.) Over the past year, I spoke with several organizations about coming on board to lead a design team. But Twitter felt the like most natural fit from the very start of my talks with the team. It’s still early in Twitter’s history. The company is small. Its user base is growing rapidly. And I see lots of potential to directly impact and to help shape the Twitter brand.

March 2009

Wikirank

by sbrothier & 1 other
Wikirank shows you what people are reading on Wikipedia. It’s based on the actual usage data from the Wikipedia servers, which the Wikimedia foundation makes available as a public service. We take that data, process it, and give it back to you in a format that’s easy to use and share. Wikirank reveals emerging trends, and lets you embed relevant charts in blog posts and on social media sites.

Boundless Webzine | An Online Magazine for Christian Singles and Young Adults

by Foolster41 (via)
A interesting Christian magazine with a blog I've been enjoying reading.

arc90 lab : experiments : Readability

by philippej (via)

"Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eke out as much advertising revenue as possible, we’re left trying to put blinders on to mask away all the insanity that surrounds the content we’re trying to read."

"... In response to all this madness, we’d like to introduce Readability

February 2009

Charles Sprague Pearce - Reading by the Shore - ca 1883-85

by karlcow

Charles Sprague Pearce (American, 1851-1914). Reading by the Shore, ca. 1883-85. Oil on canvas. 29.8 x 45.7 cm (11 3/4 x 18 in.).

Mozilla Standards Blog » Blog Archive » On Letting Specifications Bloom…

by karlcow

HTML5: The Markup Language is a useful document, and makes for interesting reading. It’s status, however, remains controversial (normative or merely informative?). Time will tell, of course, how specifications bloom.

The Long Decline of Reading | Mssv

by karlcow & 1 other

The closer you look at the statistics, the more depressing it gets. In the US, only 47% of adults read a work of literature - and I don’t mean Shakespeare, I mean any novel, short story, play or poem - in 2006. If that doesn’t sound too bad, consider that it’s declined by 7% in only ten years.

Do they read elsewhere?

Learning by Code

by greut

I'm not speaking from experience, but rather from logic. My experience is that I've learned more about programming from programming than from reading. My logic is that, given the many irrelevant parts of my personal programming-related readings, I could increase learning by focusing more on the act of programming itself.

read less, do more.

fluidIA

by Xavier Lacot
fluidIA is an online design tool for prototyping rich user interfaces. Jakub, author of Wireframe magazine (another reading that I would advice) just launched the project.

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