1. links for 2008-04-18



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  7. links for 2008-02-04

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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! :)
    (tags: design process)

    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)



  8. links for 2008-02-03

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    CountPosts v 1.0 – WordPress Plugin – Đukijev blog count visits on wp for each post (not when loged-in as admin) (tags: plugin wordpress statistics)

    Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress (tags: wordpress xml google sitemaps)

    Street fashion photos from street style blogs. Feedshion collect the best street fashion photos from all the greatest street style blogs for your viewing pleasure. (tags: blog clothes fashion feed)

    r-echos » Blog Archive » Would-be skyscraper structure (tags: architecture volume preview)

    Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress · Dagon Design show the latest post for each category (tags: wordpress plugin category)

    r-echos » Beta version A new interface for R-Echos, with featured republished articles, most read articles and a visual zaitgeist (tags: internal interface beta r_echos visualisation project info_hub)

    YouTube – The Singing, Ringing Tree Blowing wind is making music (tags: art music sculpture outdoor)

    Objets livres [design éditorial] The printed thing considered as object. In french (tags: accessibility book design typography edition editorial_design)

    robotlab – art | installation | research Some very nice pictures of a factory’s robot used to draw portrait: the performance enlighten proprerties of both universe: automated production and art of portraiture (tags: robot drawing portrait representation art performance)

    Numéro deux – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘Am I a landscape or a factory’ Godard, via Amandine, about the industrial robot which draw portraits (tags: godard quote movie relationship)

    DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » 3 Sites That Had Me Thinking a nice way of introducting links and thoughts – the selected websites are very interesting too. (tags: site link blog)



  9. r-echos

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  10. Basic setup, & todo list

    - dev of the «HTML default» templates

    - insert bits of UTW in templates

    - start testing the connections in between the semantic CMS and Wordpress standard install
    - add plugins to fit all/any requiered features



  11. notes and comments on a possible to do list for r-echos

    on /r-echos/

    stattraq from http://randypeterman.com/StatTraq/ produce stats of access. even if i installed the last version (b), the (a) still is there – weird. side note: it seems not to appreciate the url_rewrite i have installed. still have to investigate but no time at the moment.
    common tools are there, so it’s fine – maybe having a look to the db could be bring some new alteration in the process.

    ultimate tag warrior from http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/ let you insert tag by hand in your post with [tags][/tags]. neat! also it can put the mess in your category to transform them in tags. i did it! it works very well! some older posts completely change of category – which lead me to use simple categories system instead of full range of taxonomy. but still: most pf the oldest post have some weird tags…

    url rewrite seems ok for the most recent posts (i’m using /year/month/day/title/ ) – not for the oldest archive; the given link on each post reflects just the date, not the name. certainly during the transfer something got squeezed and broke it.

    the zeitgeist and visual_zeitgeist are on hold at the moment. they haven’t been transfered/converted to / r-echos /



  12. some news from the rebloging frontline

    after a few hours playing/hacking the blogger api, i felt a bit disappointed

    finally,
    i decided to «hack» wordpress to fit my needs.
    It has been a while since i planned to have a deeper look in those blogger’s specific cms – it started well before the first lines of the hierarchical cms which on their side kept me away from any intense activity on the experimental side of my work. I’m now transfering/recoding r-echos database to fit wp’s criterias, a few mysql queries like copy/pastes on the keyboard, and the work should be over – then, the next step, is to convert all the tools and experiments so that they could survive the arrival of the new system, not as easy as the first step. First things first: the sql queries of feedonfeeds i was using until now… I would like Feedonfeeds to act like the admin of wordpress, letting me consequently post/reblog while away from my beloved powerbook (yes, it happens sometimes). There are still however a certain quantity of issues which have to be solved before the transfer could be officially said done (more especially, the relationship between the opml list from feedonfeeds and the converted posts in wp, also the hit system developped inside r-echos, the tagging system which has to be redesigned as there’s only one category per post in wp, … well… still a few things to keep me awaken).

    What were the motivation: apart all the conceptual fuss, i wanted to keep to possibility to have a console online for republishing as well as a tool to read my rss feeds when off from my computer. So keeping Feedonfeeds in its very own place on the server was obvious. The main need which directed this big move has appeared more and more crucial as i was facing more and more rss sources – the need of filters – smartLists à la iTunes. Netnewswire offered this since a while and i was quite happy to buy the bundled licence (nnw2+mars edit 1.0). Now i plan to read most of the stuff in nnw2 and use mars edit 1.0 as an evolved interface to reblog.
    Once everything (not only the content of the db, but all the experiments) will be ok_back_in_the_business, i would like to give a go to Ecto.

    [tbc.]