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● Yesterday, Pierre prototyped a new project which deals with database and the use of natural language to perform some maintenance task on it, it also auto-self-documents itself. Pierre refered to it as a thin layer of manipulation (software) on top of data.
⌥ Strangely today, I was considering the object of NONE (the name of this blog where I’m posting this couple of thoughts) and found some similarities (thin layer). I’m using this directory to record things, quote, anecdotes, images, projects, things i found, things i produce. The software i’m using is a blog; it uses the (forced by blog) time based narrative to organise those things.
A collection of collections – including R-echos issue 1
∴ In a way it is a bit frustrating not to be able to deeply record the (multiple) relationships – almost automatically – of the various elements i’m posting here. Meta data are becoming crucial to organise things in a records-all environement; and i wish i could organise the objects i collected by size, or by time i saved them on my desktop, or by time i uploaded them online.
∵ In this case, by recording things online using a blog engine I’m loosing some data sets that where embed in the file itself (Mac Os X saves data like created and modified dates) – also comes the consideration that recording all the meta data about the object itself in a manual (non automated) way would require a lot of time but would certainly proove to be more effective and accurate.
↩ R-Echos for example is an attempt at collecting research and reading, interesting projects or articles we come across on the internet. Originally th system i developped was recording a lot of data, including the provenance (source, via) as a separate entry in the database. When i switched the system to a wordpress based website, this provenance information was partially lost: i kept this meta information in the content of the post (as a link at the end, starting with via) but i lost the single entry from the database.
The single entry in the database was useful in the sense that it was compute-able; i could produce meaning out of it: listing entries based on their provenanace is now a very resource intensive task if i were to develop a new Defragmentation based on the sources.
Defragmentation is a series of considerations on data sets within R-Echos
** I’m using some UTF8 characters to begin paragraphs on this post in an attempt to describe the linear relation in between paragraph. I rememeber having read about press services (like AFP, reuters) using those symbol (sometimes abstract) to convey extra meaning to news they deliver (short bits of texts, excessively factual).
*** i used the website http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ to get them quickly in my clipboard (very nice interface! from Konst & Teknik and Martin Ström).
September 20, 2008
Categories: thinking loud
Tags: autologging, blog, code, data, database, logging, metadata, recording, software
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How do people use products, systems and environments?
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research interests on the integration of mobile activities (working, learning, playing) in real-world ubiquitous environments.
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note to first slide
The title, Transcendent Interactions, refers to the goal of designing and developing software with the explicit understanding that any given interaction may exist outside the applications and systems produced. People will carry their
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a few weeks ago, while in hospital, Pierre and I were talking about a system to retrieve web document for later browsing – Piere was refering to Richard Richard Stallman’s use of the mail to retrieve documents.
July 30, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, api, application, apps, architecture, art, blog, code, coding, communication, design, development, email, environment, hack, installation, interactive, mail, mobile, mobility, pattern, performance, pervasive, research, robot, sustainability, tool, urban, web
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June 19, 2008
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May 19, 2008
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Tags: code, fun, hack
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from the comment: The full admin app also scales blog post text by calculating “em” sizes based on the slider value.
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Beyond the “uniqueness” of individual works, he tried to discover their common structural properties after noticing that characters in great fiction evolved in a system of relationships otherwise common to the wider generality of novels.
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An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon’s days are numbered
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UNIX pipes (treated semantically as writing to temporary files) are quite similar to monads. Furthermore, at the level of UNIX programming, all i/o can be regarded monadic.
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That’s what you can find here: a wonderful repository of documents related to computer and culture at large
April 10, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, algorithms, animation, archive, art, ascii, book, books, character, code, culture, data, design, encoding, france, gallery, images, inerface, javascript, language, literature, mathematics, newyork, philosophy, pipe, punctuation, research, resource, shell, size, store, structure, text, theory, thumbnails, typography, uk, unicode, unix, utf8, writing, zoom
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he International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a 10/13-digit number that uniquely identifies books and book-like products published internationally.
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ISSN is a kind of ISBN but for magazines, journals, newspaper, etc. – serials
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Google App Engine applications communicate with the web server using the CGI standard.
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Have multi-authoring metadata on a single post: Multiple Authors will keep track of what secondary authors edit a post, and add them on as authors.
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How do I develop new widgets?
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CONSIDERING THE FUTURE OF INK ON PAPER: To continue to associate digital printing with only these qualities however is to miss out on the opportunities it is able to offer and more importantly under play its influence on the future of printed matter. RCA/
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Display a list of authors in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets linking to the authors.php page.
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Head Meta Description provides an automatic meta description tag for your blog, inserting a dynamic description depending on the query-type (i.e. page you’re on)
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listing the most recent and updated posts, globally or by category, by author, and more in your sidebar or elsewhere. The recent posts list can also include an excerpt.
April 09, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: application, author, book, books, code, codex, coding, documentation, download, future, google, library, magazine, metadata, paper, pdf, plugin, post, print, programming, publishing, python, rca, reference, selfpublishing, seo, software, templates, web, widget, wordpress, writing, _assembling, _capacity, _theofs
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Bash by example, part 1 of a nice 3 part article explaining the Fundamental programming in the Bourne again shell (bash)
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The premier advertising network for reaching creative, web and design professionals, The Deck serves up millions of page views each month and is uniquely configured to connect the right marketers to a targeted, influential audience.
March 19, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, advertising, bash, blog, branding, code, creative, marketing, platform, quality, unix
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March 16, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: activism, analysis, author, brain, censor, code, coding, color, comparison, consciousness, content, cup, design, drawing, explosion, font, frame, future, geometry, GUI, history, icon, interface, mapping, network, noodle, photography, production, resource, science, talk, ted, time, tools, tradition, typography, web2.0
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i like one liners; i like simplicity; i like twitter – what else? might be nice to combine it with the todo.txt
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nice combination of services: tumble + delicious as an automated rebloging system
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nice tool for visualising twitter ativity – i like the analogy to seismic activities
March 11, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: api, blog, code, coding, commandline, hack, javascript, jQuery, mashup, terminal, time, timeline, twitter, txt, visualisation, web, webdev, webtools, _theofs
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a very nice color picker to be integrated wherever is needed, just adding a form/input and hop!
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use javascript, png and css to simulate gradients in a css compliant manner – nice!
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a nice use of the mdfind command to export xml out of searches… big potential there, i think: SpotLight to Atom (rss) – it sounds a bit like the electronest.com website build on top of Apache very standard features
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dictionnary of AppleScript for the Microsoft Word application
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the wikipedia page for AppleScript, giving informations about one of the most powerful resource in an Apple computer: it’s automation ability
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using the Finder as development and production environment; remembered me a bunch of ideas we explored with Andreas Schneider about using the standard tools of a computer system to generate presentations, website, weblog, etc.
February 26, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: agregation, applescript, atom, automation, code, color, colorpicker, css, development, filesystem, finder, gradient, IDE, javascript, jQuery, osx, plugin, reference, RSS, spotlight, syndication, system, terminal, word, workflow, xml, _playbill
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Tarantino and Avary decided to write a short, on the theory that it would be easier to get made than a feature… the film became a trilogy, with one section by Tarantino, one by Avary, and one by a third director who never materialized. Each eventually e
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Del.icio.us API / help. This document and the APIs herein are subject to change at any time.
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article describing a simple use of the delicious API on a mail server
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tracking software for website statistices – tehy pretty much evolved form the evrsion i use to know a couple of years back… it seems like they developped quite neat services and smart tools
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enables you to have your posts submitted automatically to social bookmarking sites like delicio.us
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a nice summary of a few features and softwares to betterise your experience with delicious bookmarks
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this gallery has both onsite and online exhibition
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an overview of the reputation economy, using delicious – the via: tag to give credits; it’s weird this system could not be automatically generated when you use the “copy this” functions.
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a kind of GTD tricks using GMail as the main tool – it’s nice to see good old emails back on tracks in the middle of RSS. it’s a “now old” media on the internet and pretty much everybody feels comfortable with it. A bit of automation oculd bring emails to
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a unique flexible identity system which help to login multiple online services and centralise information regarding personal electronic presence
February 25, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: advertisement, aggregator, analytics, api, architecture, art, auckland, automation, body, book, business, car, code, coding, color, community, connection, delicious, dev, development, digital, documentation, electronic_presence, email, fashion, filter, gallery, get, gmail, google, gtd, ideas, identity, interface, internet, lifehack, login, management, marketing, microformats, monitoring, movie, network, networking, nz, optimization, organisation, photography, picture, plugin, post, privacy, process, productivity, protocol, reputation, RSS, r_echos, service, shoes, social, software, statistics, submission, tagging, tip, tool, tracking, traffic, twitter, url, vehicle, visualization, webdev, webservice, wikipedia, wireless, wordpress, workflow, __ofs
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a mini server; quite amazing stuff: my mac mini looks like big next to it
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this post is about font size and how to determine it; very interesting reading for anyone presenting information on screen.
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how to handle hanging ponctuation on the web, with explanation on the css side of things – with pierre we are developing set of javascript to handle those. it’s nice to see many effort pointing towards betterising typography on screen/web
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how to exclude your own visit from google analytics stats, a practical howto. interesting technique involving the use of a cookie, which is signaling who you are to the tracking system.
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Today, we had a meeting Duncan and I – and it’s always a pleasure to discuss about architecture, cycling, design, business, web things, and life in general – those guys are not only doing nice products for your bicycle needs: they *are* nice!
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film director of Dead man’s shoes & This is england, both out on Warp films.
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the website state: Warp Films is an independent film production company which aims to mirror the ethos of its partner music label Warp Records
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known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues
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Warp X is hoping to “retox” the world of British film by providing a one-stop-shop for creative film talent
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php and apache to mod rewrite – the beginning of a home made class – interesting reading
February 22, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: analytics, bicycle, bike, cinema, code, company, design, dev, director, electronic_presence, england, film, filter, font, frontyard, furniture, google, hardware, howto, linux, movie, movies, music, outdoor, pc, php, ponctuation, production, rack, storage, text, typography, uk, url_rewrite, video, web, webdesign
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seems to be a nice alternative to image backgrounds to produce gradient
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analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to – by Jason Freeman
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nice indication of the windows size from the start; the content does not need any introduction anymore.
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Thisandagain is the online personal space of Andrew Sliwinski, a User Experience Strategist, Designer, and Technologist living and working near Detroit, MI.
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nice interface which use black rectangle; it would be nice if the size were relative
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Peter Saville did a very nice set of boxes for audio cassettes back in the days; it looks like book binding
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Brad Troemel did a serie of picture, where the subject is reframed
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Easily view images in a directory tree—without actually clicking through to every image
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An architectural icon; Battersea Power Station in London is a defunct power station that was the first in a series of large coal-fired electrical generating facilities
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A bastion of the architectural establishment in early 20th century Britain
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a group on flickr collecting pictures from architect Gilbert Scott
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some nice types and book covers
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Damien Hirst at the launch of ‘In the darkest hour there may be light’, his personal art collection at the Serpentine Gallery
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I traded one red paperclip for a house.
February 12, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, analysis, architecture, art, audio, blog, books, cassette, code, collection, color, creative, css, design, editorial, electronic_presence, exchange, extensions, filemanager, filesystem, firefox, flickr, gradient, graphicdesign, history, identity, image, image_on_the_fly, interface, itunes, london, marketing, meme, music, netart, netherlands, photography, picture, plugin, portfolio, statistics, trade, typography, uk, urban, usability, web, webdesign
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Spotlight can receive plugin. This article describes how to actually develop one which will index the content of Stickies.
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this article describes a bit of the troubles along the way for Google if Microsoft grasp the Yahoo business
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This an area I never really searched into: Spotlight plugins – it seems like there are a lot of gems; this one for example brings the top ten Google results.
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This one is another Spotlight plugin: Delicious Indexer – it will index your online bookmarks and lets you retrieve them from the desktop.
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From LSO’s Chronicle
Russian 20th-century music is inseparable from history. As film composers, Shostakovich and Prokofiev both got used to the idea of providing accompaniments to images of great moments from their country’s past. But few have chronicled their own times as relentlessly as Shostakovich.
Variously fêted and reviled by the Soviet authorities, and constantly treading a fine line between triumph and disaster – sometimes even between life and death – his desire to compose never wavered, and thus it is that the late symphonies featured in this series offer an image of the postwar decades in music of unfailingly intense expression, from the ‘optimistic tragedy’ of the Tenth to the descriptive power of the Eleventh, and the dark contemplations of the Fourteenth to the quirky irony of the Fifteenth. Yet out of necessity Shostakovich’s is also an art rich in ambiguity, its surface messages often seemingly undermined by steely irony and double meaning.
Three decades after his death these great works still have the power both to fascinate and to reach deep into our hearts and minds.
From Wikipedia: Shostakovich’s page:
After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky (Symphony No. 1), Shostakovich switched to modernism (Symphony No. 2 and The Nose) before developing a hybrid of styles with Lady Macbeth and the state-suppressed Fourth Symphony. This hybrid style ranged from the neo-classical (with Stravinskian influences) to the post-romantic music (with Mahlerian influences). His tonality involved much use of modality and some astringent neo-classical harmonies à la Hindemith and Prokofiev. His music frequently includes sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque.
February 08, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: accessibility, apple, application, archive, browser, code, delicious, desktop, google, london, metadata, microsoft, music, orchestra, osx, plugin, Plugins, search, software, spotlight, yahoo
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what vs. how (tecznotes)
nice writing about design process at stamen. It is nice to see Pierre and I, we are actually quite right with all the thoughts we are giving about ElectroNest and how to manage the company/work/life – it’s all about utopia! :)
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internet usage statistics origami – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
a very nice tangible visualisation of internet traffic and flows; it reminded me the logo electronest designed for my own electronic presence on http://www.jeromerigaud.com
(tags: visualisation tangible schema statistics sculpture origami internet traffic paper)
Declutter Your Desk how to make space on your desk – everything is hidden in the shade, still accessible but not messing all around (tags: ***** desktop hardware ideas lifehack organization productivity)
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography I quite liked the book of Robert Bringhurst – now, it seems like there is a nice web equivalent with the very specific issues of typography on screen (lower resolution, less control) (tags: screen typography webdesign ***** design display)
Creating a Color Scheme some explanations and insights about the color parameters and values I used to manipulate in picture editing software without knowing what it meant exactly (degreee, etc.) (tags: color howto tutorial photoshop hue degree)
How To: Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks WordPress with a bit of subtlety: separating comments and trackbacks (tags: wordpress hack code custom)
Koyaanisqatsi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “It’s not that we use technology, we live technology” – amazing and brilliant movie. it is the first of a trilogy (tags: film inspiration slow_motion technology nature society explosion)
CommentPress an amazing plugin that let’s you comment posts on a per paragraph basis; it brings feelings somehow of taking notes with a pen in the margins of a real book. (tags: wordpress comment plugin textuality discussion)
February 04, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, code, color, comment, custom, degree, design, desktop, discussion, display, explosion, film, hack, hardware, howto, hue, ideas, inspiration, internet, lifehack, nature, organization, origami, paper, photoshop, plugin, process, productivity, schema, screen, sculpture, slow_motion, society, statistics, tangible, technology, textuality, traffic, tutorial, typography, visualisation, webdesign, wordpress
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Above, this is an intermediate version of the Kitsuné website presented over the new one; the very first version was an adaption of the former one but included a CMS (Content Management System) for them to update more easily their content and products on the website. Each of Kitsuné sections (music, clothes, collaborations, …) had its own popup. In a later version, Åbäke and I switched the appearance of the Kitsuné Therese section to black – the kitsune noir.
October 20, 2004
Categories: designing, internal, web design
Tags: code, design, kitsuné, webdesign
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