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September 20, 2008
● 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).
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July 30, 2008
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How do people use products, systems and environments?
How can designers influence interaction?
How can we design for sustainable behaviour?
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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.
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June 19, 2008
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May 19, 2008
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April 10, 2008
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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
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April 09, 2008
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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.
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March 19, 2008
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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.
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March 16, 2008
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March 11, 2008
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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
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February 26, 2008
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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.
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