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The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - The Berlin Wall Through Time - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Full Interview: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on forgetting in a digital age | Spark | CBC Radio
That means that Google has more informational power over us, and that’s a concern. A related concern is the fact that we must understand and realize whatever we say today will or might be held against us in the future.
October 2009
ASK KEN™ – Visual Knowledge Browser on Datavisualization.ch
AKS KEN is basically a textual search engine and the matching entires from Freebase are visualized as a ring chart. The user can then drill down the wedges and unveil related ring charts. Images and a textual description to each topic are shown in a separate drawer on the right hand side.
USGS Twitter Earthquake Detector : GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems
The USGS is now testing out Twitter to collect early response information about earthquakes: “the USGS is developing a system that gathers real-time, earthquake-related messages from the social networking site Twitter and applies place, time, and quantity data to provide geo-located earthquake detection within 60 seconds of an event’s origin time.“ Social media can be a valuable tool in helping to assess earthquake hazards through anecdotal information from hundreds and potentially thousands of local users.
Sound advice - blog
A significant weakness of HTTP in my view is its dependence on the MIME standard for media type identification and on the related iana registry. This registry is a limited bottleneck that does not have the capacity to deal with the media type definition requirements of individual enterprises or domains. Machine-centric environments rely in a higher level of semantics than the human-centric environment of the Web. In order for machines to effectively exploit information, every unique schema of information needs to be standardised in a media type and for those media types to be individually identified. The number of media types grows as machines become more dominant in a distributed computing environment and as the number of distinct environments increases.
Linguistics Meets Linux: Morphix-NLP
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery
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September 2009
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot
MusicBrainz
SML Wiki: Interestingness(note: work in progress)
BoulevArt ¦ home ¦ your multimedia production partner
Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
August 2009
Hackers and Painters
I've never liked the term "computer science." The main reason I don't like it is that there's no such thing. Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history, like Yugoslavia. At one end you have people who are really mathematicians, but call what they're doing computer science so they can get DARPA grants. In the middle you have people working on something like the natural history of computers-- studying the behavior of algorithms for routing data through networks, for example. And then at the other extreme you have the hackers, who are trying to write interesting software, and for whom computers are just a medium of expression, as concrete is for architects or paint for painters.
The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources | Noupe
LODE: An ontology for Linking Open Descriptions of Events
This document describes an ontology for publishing descriptions of historical events as Linked Data, and for mapping between other event-related vocabularies and ontologies.
Tutsii deviantID by ~Tutsii on deviantART
qa-style-sheet - Project Hosting on Google Code
The QA style sheet highlights specific HTML problems like use of deprecated elements, inaccessible images, layout tables, empty elements, or styling-related maintenance issues. Theoretically, it is “unobtrusive” in a sense that when everything’s fine it won’t cause any visible changes.
July 2009
Welcome to Computer Tech Support (CTS) - Free Computer Help and Technical Support!
Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in Wordpress | Build Internet!
Python Job Alert
The company I work for runs 2degreesnetwork.com, which is collaboration service for sustainable business. Basically, it's a social networking type of site for businesses to collaborate on climate change and related issues.
