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June 2009

Re: vCard RDF merge.... from Toby Inkster on 2009-06-30 (www-archive@w3.org from June 2009)

by karlcow

A while back I wrote a little RDF vocab that extended the 2006 vCard vocab. It introduces a few extra terms which I thought were useful, mostly taken from the vCard 4.0 drafts at the time. e.g. a "lang" property to indicate languages spoken by the person represented. One other thing it has though is a more vCard-like way of representing telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.

.:oomlout:. :: Twitter Monitoring Typewriter (TwypeWriter) : .:oomlout:., Arduino & DIY Electronics and kits in the UK

by karlcow

We thought it appropriate to allow Twitter to be more than just an on monitor phenomena. To accomplish this we have combined an Arduino, Ethernet Shield and typewriter. We added a little bit of solder (we’re spoofing keystrokes) and some coding (available here) and what we have is a twitter monitoring machine.

Really Interesting Group | Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008

by karlcow

We collected some things from the internet we thought would work well on paper and we made it into a newspaper with a limited edition run of 1,000.

You can read more about it over here and you can follow the developing adventures of Newspaper Club over here.

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May 2009

Daring Fireball Linked List: Bruce Lawson Interviews Ian Hickson, Editor of the HTML 5 Specification

by night.kame

I’m just a spectator, albeit a very interested one, but I have long thought that Hickson possesses just the right mix of pragmatism and idealism for this job.

Sauf que le pragmatisme 2.0 ressemble bigrement à de l'infantilisme.

Toying around with (embedded) WebAccessControl « Web of Data

by karlcow

a Web of Data version of a simple authorization scheme and protocol called WebAccessControl (WAC). It includes a draft of a vocabulary and a protocol (see also open issues with it). I thought it might be nice to have a visual representation of the schema

jodo

by Takwann
This section includes, * An Introduction to SMR Jodo Training * Links to the SMR Training Curriculum * A list of key principles common in Martial Arts training * Just when you thought you learned it all (An introduction to Oyogumite and Henka-waza

March 2009

In search of the click track « Music Machinery

by xibe (via)

I’ve always been curious about which drummers use a click track and which don’t, so I thought it might be fun to try to build a click track detector

February 2009

Still Developing...

by greut

Adding persistence is something that we will typically all have to do at sometime in most real world web applications and will definitely slow things down a little; so I thought I’d approach the problem using my latest favourite storage engine, CouchDB

a Restish example using CouchDB

Non-Hierarchical Management (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

by greut & 1 other

I have a no asshole rule which is really simple: I really don’t want to work with assholes. So if you’re an asshole and you work on my team, I’m going to fire you. Now, if the whole team says gosh, that’s awful. We want to work with as many assholes as we can! then we have a simple solution. I’ll fire me!

from the build a community section.

Non-Hierarchical Management (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

by karlcow & 1 other

A better way to think of a manager is as a servant, like an editor or a personal assistant. Everyone wants to be effective; a manager’s job is to do everything they can to make that happen.

Ironic Support Forum - OpenMeta Is a Hack

by karlcow

what concerns me is the question if this is going to keep working or not? For some time I thought spotlight-comments-based Tags would be a solution – and later have run into growing difficulties, Quicksilver not 100% working any more with Tags, TagBot occasionally overwriting Tags, the TagBot people simply going away etc. etc.

There was SpotMeta (which, if I recall right did use a similar "Xattr"-solution ) but with Leopard that was not compatible and not developed anymore. I intend to go with Apples further development of OSX (as long as my machine is going to support this) but I want to be at least assured that the people who implement this new scheme will make everything possible to make it likely that it wil continue to work in the reasonably future. Michael didn't start fear in my heart, he just gave me a starting point to ask these questions. (By the way I have asked a similar question the Tags-people, a question based on my past experiences with tagging solutions)

Sans standards, le futur est un peu plus instable.

A Day is a Tourist, A Year is a Traveler

by blackgoldfish
『A day is a step, a year is a tango. A day is a tourist, a year is a traveler. A day is a chance encounter, a year says love. A day is frustration, a year is a melody. A day is a lump of clay, a year is whatever you want it to be. A day is a thought, a year is a philosophy. Every year counts. Glenfiddich.』-Glenfiddich〈Every Year Counts〉TVC

Spawning Django - Die in a Fire - Eric Florenzano’s Blog

by greut

On my Apache mod_wsgi setup, I got 235.65 requests per second. That was really good, I thought! However, with the Spawning setup, I got 347.20 requests per second.

another way of deploying WSGI apps with graceful code reloading.

Who Writes Wikipedia? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

by Spone & 1 other
So did the Gang of 500 actually write Wikipedia? Wales decided to run a simple study to find out: he counted who made the most edits to the site. “I expected to find something like an 80-20 rule: 80% of the work being done by 20% of the users, just because that seems to come up a lot. But it’s actually much, much tighter than that: it turns out over 50% of all the edits are done by just .7% of the users … 524 people. … And in fact the most active 2%, which is 1400 people, have done 73.4% of all the edits.” The remaining 25% of edits, he said, were from “people who [are] contributing … a minor change of a fact or a minor spelling fix … or something like that.”

Buzzword.org.uk Draft: Named Graphs in RDFa (“RDFa Quads”)

by karlcow

A set of RDF triples may be considered as a directed graph where the resources and literals form its nodes, and the predicates its edges. This graph in turn can be thought of as a resource in its own right, and dealt with in another graph. This document explores an extension for expressing named graphs in RDFa.

January 2009

The Top Ten Worst URL’s in the world. « Amnesia Blog

by karlcow & 1 other

OK, thought we’d better blog these (and YES, they all exist.)

Dmitry's Research

by Neewok

Nearly all of my experimental works (and some of the mainstream ones) composed since 1995 were developed by incorporating (to varying degrees) two main principles/thought processes:

  1. Non-linearity: or fractal, controls the surprise, the unexpected, and is achieved by the Fractal Würfelspiel;
  2. Linearity: maintains the flow and carries a listener through a work. This is delivered by recursive (fractal, self-affine) applications of the Golden Section

MarshalSandler.com » Gotham Gal-Etiquette

by msandler
It is no secret Gotham Gal is one of my favorites and is a top content creator ! I once posted a comment on her husband’s web site that I still took notes on Crain StationaryWith A Quill pen ! http://www.crane.com/ My mother was very well educated and in our house Etiquette was king ! We had beautiful Crane Note paper and I still remember even though I was born in 1936-having to write hundreds of thank you note’s to people who attended my Bar Mitzvah ! I of course used a Parker 51 Fountain Pen that I got as a gift ! When I turned 21 I had my own Crain Stationary that was blind embossed with a simple line in the left hand column and the store where I bought it had to register the embossing ! The stationary got me a lot of response from politicians and other people I wrote , they must have thought I was important ! Presentation is a very important element in any communcation ! I was always jealous of my Friends who attented Catholic School since their penmanship was a work of art ! They had the Palmer method applied to their fingers with a ruler ! I didn’t meet the ruler method until I went Hebrew School ! I went to Detroit Country Day School for grades 1-12 and there was a lot of pressure applied to read and write ! Steve Ballmer also graduated from that School a long time after me and I know dam well it gave him an excellent base for a career ! Most of the people at that school were Harvard Bound since the headmaster F Alden Shaw was a Harvard graduate ! Me I went to the University of Miami and majored in what they call today Communication, with a minor in Statistics and it was the fifties so we all got 5th Degree Black Belts in Rum Drinking on a beautiful island 90 mies from Miami - Viva Ritmo Latino ! A good education will help you understand the Human Condition a long with a few wacks from a good Psychiatrist ! Both these elements temper your ego and make sure you are not a snob ! The internet is young and I have found a lot of people who created content that is presented with good taste aimed at all of the US The Unwashed ! I strongly resent the critics on the internet who have no backround liberal arts critisizing others ! Teche’s are the worst at this since usually they have technical degress and have never learned to communicate with anything other than a machine ! My people communicators are Seth Godin- Davie Winer- Chris Brogan-ShelIsrael-Bill Israel-Andrew Badera-Frank Eliason-Guy Kawasaki -Fred Wilson-Gotham Gal and many more ! Me marshal.m1@gmail.com- Bio for Marshal SandlerMarshal Sandler was born in 1936 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit Country Day School (high school), and he left Michigan to attend the University of Miami, Florida.Marshal joined the Us Army and served from 1959 to 1961. He traveled extensively in the 1950s to France, Cuba, Spain and throughout the US.Marshal’s working career was in the Industrial Laundry and Textile Sales industry. He currently lives in Michigan where he is semi-retired and working on this site and related publications.Interesting Tidbits about Marshal * Hobbies, canoing (became expert while working many summers in Algonquin Park, Ontario), art, music, target shooting and sailing. * Favorite Artist, Modigliani (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/modigliani.html) * Favorite Canoe, Chestnut (http://www.eagle.ca/~chestnut/cat.htm) * Favorite Sailboat, (http://www.catboats.org/FAQ.htm) * Favorite Park, Algonquin Park (http://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/) * Favorite Classical Musician, Yo Yo Ma * Favorite Jazz Musician, Lennie Tristano * Favorite Book, Adventures of Augie March * Favorite Cuban Musicians, Celia Cruz and Tito Puente * States lived in, Michigan / Oregon / Missouri / Florida / Arizona * Favorite Off-Beat Writer, Blaize Cendrars-Marshal.m1@gmail.com Soy feliz. I am happy by nature. Gotham Gal. Enhanced by Zemanta Check out my lens Feedjit Live Blog Stats Lijit Search ; Alltop. Seriously?! I got in?

MetaDeveloper: Using SGMLParser With IronPython

by karlcow

using SGMLParser and having seen nothing similar (and imagining its many uses!) I thought I'd give it a whirl in IronPython.

WordPress functions to supercharge your Theme! - Yoast - Tweaking Websites

by mozkart
WordPress is well known for its plugins and themes, but not enough people know and love what you can do in your themes functions.php. Chris Pearson showed his love for them back in May, and he did a great job of explaining how you can bring your own functions.php file to each and every theme you use, so I'm not going to repeat that, just go read it. Then Matt Varone started releasing a whole array of useful functions in three consecutive posts over the last couple of months: Taking Advantage of Functions.php in Wordpress Themes Useful custom functions for WordPress is_subpage() - Custom Conditional Function So I thought it was about time I started doing the same and started sharing a few of the custom functions & hacks I'm using in my functions.php.

charlesv: Netvibes Slimserver Mashup = All Your MP3s Anywhere, In Any Browser

by rvoluer & 2 others (via)
jax tabs and all sorts of actually useful web 2.0 interface bits. One of the cooler things about netvibes is you can subscribe to podcasts on your netvibes page, and it will play them in a small flash (?) mp3 player at the top of the screen, no external application required. For a long time, I've been using SlimServer to listen to my music library at work / wherever. It monitors my iTunes database (but can point to folders), and will transcode on the fly to a lower bitrate so that I can stream at a listenable quality on my residential cable connection. I've been using winamp to listen to the stream, but that was a little clunky, and I thought there must be a better way. Looking on the netvibes ecosystem (a repository of rss feeds, podcasts, and custom netvibes mini-apps called modules), I couldn't find a SlimServer control/streaming module. So, I decided to hack together my own solution which, if I say so myself is pretty ding-dang neat. Here are some screenshots of it in action

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