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* it made me consider the portability and security of such data; just quickly googled and found this very nice post about making backups of your delicious bookmarks in Gmail. Smart!
** downtime are really the worst thing that can happen to you once you start migrating ‘in the clouds’ - downtime: either on your own server, services you relly upon, your own connection - what can be down to preserve the connection to essential data? i liked the idea of the .tel domains (i spoke about this some weeks ago in Emergency and Electronic Presence).
*** On a quite different note but with the same attention, etoy’s Mission Eternity explores territories of data accessibility beyond death.
January 30, 2009
Categories: electronic presence
Tags: backup, delicious, gmail, software
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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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A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X; the application use a distant database where users shares their tweaks - command line. It comes under the form of a PrefPane (10.5)
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the new company representing Gaelle
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June 20, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: advertising, animation, application, collaboration, compression, configuration, database, graphics, GUI, hacks, mac, motion, ny, optimisation, option, osx, production, rar, software, tweak, uk, unrar, usa, utility
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April 12, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: application, blog, email, freeware, osx, RSS, software
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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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Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake.
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Problem: Some applications do about 90% of what I want.
Solution: Develop my own applications.
Better Solution: Patch the application myself…
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A command line anywhere and everywhere (10.5)
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All things AppleScript
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encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined
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art & culture periodical; distributed both as a book and a magazine (depends where the barcode appears)
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the idea of a physical blog/reblog under the form of a Cabinet Of Curiosities
March 18, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, applescript, art, articles, biology, book, collection, culture, design, finder, framework, furniture, hack, interface, lifehacks, magazine, osx, philosophy, plugin, productivity, publish, resources, science, shell, software, tangible, terminal, tool, tools, wikipedia, writing, _curiosities
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saving multiple clipboards for later access via contextual menu.
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A recursive acronym (or occasionally recursive initialism, and sometimes recursive backronym) is an abbreviation that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. Due to the nature of the English language, which would infinitely recurse left-re
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i like the simple and effective interface and 3 column layout for blog excerpts, links and lists agregation
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Matching Whole Lines of Text
March 17, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, aggregator, application, banger, business, card, censor, censorship, clipboard, coding, communication, complexity, context, cover, crypto, culture, design, directory, disclosures, ed, education, game, geometry, graphic, illustartion, information, installation, language, links, mac, mathematics, media, news, osx, paper, record, reference, regexp, resource, resources, software, structure, tools, txt, wiki
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Outline and structure your ideas. Take notes. Storyboard your masterpiece using a powerful virtual corkboard. View research while you write. Track themes using keywords. Dynamically combine multiple scenes into a single text just to see how they fit.
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OmniGraffle let’s you create and organise your thoughts trough diagram
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seems to be a very good alternative to Omni Graffle; but works only on 10.5 (time to switch:). Via Piotch
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formatting text documents with meta language (formatting syntax) embed in the text
March 15, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: application, bibliography, charts, diagram, editor, format, formating, interface, latex, lifehacks, management, mapping, mindmap, organisation, osx, productivity, project, schema, software, text, thinking, tools, txt, utility, writing
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The makers of Auto-shop and Auto-illustrator - they made also the FinderMail a marveling application using apple’s finder as an inbox. Their software challenges traditional conception of softwares.
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Karrie Jacobs “From Eternity To Here” - Amandine commented on a R-Echos article, spotting and quoting this text
March 12, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: 3d, art, ballet, body, bottle, branding, business, cellar, company, customisation, dance, design, email, excel, experimental, fiction, findability, game, generative, graphic, identify, identity, im, installation, instant, interface, messaging, module, object, organise, planets, python, restaurant, rfid, science-fiction, software, stock, technology, theory, to_read, tracking, txt, video, visualisation, web, wine
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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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an insight - back in the days (2005!) - on how to insert metainformation in delicious’ bookmarks
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a daily selection of website from the french newspaper Libération; via Tex Server who has been linked from them
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it’s good to see there are bigger company exploring new path of doing things - the exact same way ElectroNest decided to explore new way of managing relationship, workflow and business…
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a guide and some explanations on how to setup a FaceBook application
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an application which lets you change your boot image on apple computer
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»Internet art, net art, and networked art in relation.« A collection of conversations and interviews (with: Isabelle Arvers, Marc Garrett, Benjamin Weil, Charlie Gere, Christiane Paul, Cory Arcangel, Jemima Rellie, Sara Tucker , Jon Ippolito and Dirk De
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a semantic approach to “related tags” in delicious bookmark. Applying language algorythms to RSS feed parsing.
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Indexhibit is a web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound. Daniel Eatock is behind this nice project aimed at easily realising online collections
February 24, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, application, business, collection, datamining, delicious, design, development, facebook, feed, filesystem, hack, links, management, marketing, meta, metadata, netart, opensource, organisation, osx, practice, process, reference, research, RSS, semantic, software, tagging, theory, tool, to_read, webdesign, website, zeitgeist
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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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Defragmentation’s process aims at reducing the fragmentation of data by concatenating parts stored in separate locations: a (partially) new visualisation interface made its apparition on R-Echos; its url is: http://r-echos.net/defragmentation/
It’s quite simple, and it shows the last 500 posts, each post represented by a clickable color coded square (a color is equivalent to a post’s category). The most recent articles are on the top left, while the older are at the bottom right. When hovering on a square, title and first image of the post are displayed. It allows for a quick visual browse, a single click brings up the article. It is a rework based on the former interface of R-Echos which was using lines of colors.
This visualisation was inspired by a re-post a little while ago in Pierre’s reblog (about blogs); the original post coming from Social Fictions, whose ideas was much more about the software way of processing with a limited amount of memory, mimicking palimpsest: a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
This blog/blogject is a Janus head, 2 faced web0.0 monster sharing a memory-system styled on a palimpsest. When the limited memory it has is filled to maximum capacity it needs to reorganise it to make space otherwise it can’t store any more new blog entries. In doing this it has to try not to forget the old ones, but this is not always done with much success as memories confabulated over time become increasingly unrecognisable. This making space is done by the blogject and its functioning is modelled on how our brains interleave our memories: by dreaming. The resulting dreams are what the blogject publishes online.
The relationship between blog (and someone using it) and the blog-ejects rendered from/within this input is symbiotic. The blogject only starts functioning when memory reached a tipping point (being full), the blog can continue to accept new entries for as long as the blogject succeeds in freeing space, to which again there is an upper limit.
As an experiment in writing by a selfless-self (adjacent to automatic writing and the cut-up) there are two angles to this system: the blogject’s output and the stuff stored in the blog as its increasingly looses its integrity, are both written by a non-self. The purpose or meaning of this writing is not in the writing itself but in the interpretation of it by the ones submitting writing to its memory. This property too it shares with dreams.
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A blogject, not to be confused with a slog (a sensor log), is the bot rephrased in the language of the blogosphere. Unlike bots, software-based attempts at making computers speak with us in our own language, that only have to respond on user input, blogjects in theory are pro-active and possess their own threshold function to decide when to produce something. Obviously, systems possessing artificial consciousness are non-existent, and bots and blogjects cannot but interpret/generate input of which is the meaning is always relative to templates in its database not relative to the outside world as you would suspect a true AI would.
Each cube represents a segment of a colour-coded memory. Each black dot represents a free segment. While the palimpsest has free segments entries are added from left to right and from top to bottom. When filled, dreaming commences (and the blogject will eject-text) to make space. This results in chains sharing a segment and releasing one in the process. The neat crystalline order inside the memory that exists in the beginning will slowly become chaotic.
The ideas behind the BlogJect are really interesting; it would be interesting to see such behaviour enacted on the R-Echos project, like evasive or digressive memory - it would never give the correct answer, but an almost correct one, though creating a sort of dérive inside the archive of the magazine.
It is also quite exciting to consider web software and web design aiming at the apparition and growth of a certain kind of new intelligent entities limited in some ways - a form of software reification, somehow.
January 26, 2008
Categories: memory, newly released, r-echos, thinking loud
Tags: AI, color, software, visualisation
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