Posted on October 19, 2004February 27, 2005 by lhl

Firefox Advocacy Ad Campaign Overview & FAQ – contribute over $30 and get your name in the NYTimes ad – ingenious – over 2,500 names already!
The Inflation Calculator – try comparing 1990 to 2003 and watch your jaw drop
Emulating Prototyping of DOM Objects in Internet Explorer – In Mozilla all DOM objects are native Javascript objects, which means we can easily use prototypes to add methods and properties to all instances of a DOM class at once. This is very useful as it allows us to easily extend the functionality of DOM objects. Unfortuantly there isn’t such an easy way to do this in IE, but we can emulate it by using behaviors and extending the document.createElement method. (Paul’s back. A smart company would simply give fistfuls of cash to him now, before he graduates.)
Matt’s featured in a Business Week article about registration – hey stupid publishers, why don’t you take a hint from community sites like Metafilter and actually offer something of value for signing up? See Holovaty’s comments. Lawrence, Kansas gets it. You’d think Los Angeles, Washington DC, or New York might
GmailStatus – another useless piece of blinkery for your menubar
Six Apart Professional Network – this is not a paid placement, but rather as a public service for your edification. Where Anil posts good stuff (say, unlike the barren desert wasteland that is the 6A front page)
Metadata for the Masses – peterme writes about freetagging. Here’s something I posted at the beginning of this year, and a still stand by it:

Kurt, I agree that analytics will be an importance
force-multiplier for assisting tagging. Automated clustering, emergent
taxonomies, and network scaling w/ collaborative filtering, webs of
trust will all factor in. As will good interfaces (personally, I find
navigating long, nested contextual menus a PITA).

We’re seeing a lot of areas converging right now. It’s all quite exciting.

some other intersting MSR stuff:
http://research.microsoft.com/~jplatt/
http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/

A few disparate (but related) links that may be of interest:
http://users.bestweb.net/~sowa/peirce/ontometa.htm
http://facetmap.com/
http://www.iuiconf.org/pastiui.html
http://www.idlewords.com/pages/emerging_tech_talk.htm
http://collaboratory.planetwork.net/linktank_whitepaper
http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002564.html
http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers.html
http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/dobly.html
http://web.umr.edu/~tauritzd/art/
http://bonsai.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~mdehoon/software/cluster/software.htm