- Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose – highlights vim’s lack of ability to automatically reflow text. In theory one could bind a script to run on each keystroke and constantly reflow (or count and reflow when necessary?)
- SourceForge P2P projects
- Semantic Blogging
The central idea is to apply ideas, techniques and tools from the semantic web and apply them to blogging. Our intuition is that semantic principles can be applied to enrich and extend the blogging metaphor. We use the bibliography management domain to focus our efforts and to provide grounding for our demonstrator. However, we envisage that our efforts will be (or should be) applicable to more than just the bibliography domain. In addition, if we can show how the semantic web can add value, within the context of a pre-existing, popular and powerful metaphor, then it will make a convincing showcase for the semantic web.
- ETCON calendar – iCal subscribable calendar via eventSherpa – pretty nice interface/service it looks like, but why the heck is the default timezone Montreal (err, ETCON is in San Diego) – this of course completely screws up everyone who say, actually uses Time Zones correctly?
- The Web and Identity Goods – esr talks a bit on books
- Creating A Super-Router (For Free) – like I said, I bought the wrong wifi ap
- PRIMARY RESULTS: Delegate Scorecard – You know what’s interesting, the games just afoot right now
So, I’ve only had layovers in Alaska and Missouri. Does that even count? In any case, yes, I’m due for a big-ass roadtrip sometime.
“NOBODY showed up? I would think having a high Sardonix rating would be a nice piece of “hacker-street-cred”
This isn’t Compton.
You’re not going to go on an interview and throw up your Linux “signs.”
Slackware beeyotch. Represent.
apt-get 4 life, thug.
Werd.
DSS Papers to write:
- Methods for controlling personal data propagation within SSNs
- Trust models in DSS systems
I’ve been looking around and am sort of surprised that no one has created a comprehensive PHP secure cookie/session library. Am I missing something?
- DB sessions
- Optional Client-Side Login Hashing
- Request-based Session Regeneration
- Page Tokens (even better w/ Session ID masking)
- Optional IP Locking
- User/Session checking/limiting
- Cookie Envelopes
- Forging/Brute Force detection, actions (tarpitting, lock-outs/bans)
- Cookie shredding
- MozWho, AndyEd’s ongoing work on creating a personal adaptive hompage. See also the MozWho Labs, tabWatcher, and prior art
- Bookie – centralized Java bookmark server
- del.icio.us
- Bookmark Links from last year
New review of bookmark tools:
- del.icio.us – I can see the good things about it, but the interface is clumsy and I don’t really care about the social software aspect of it. still very alpha, no organization (see REST api
- Between Book Pages (BBPS) – pretty minimal
- ol’bookmarks – mature, but fat rendering
- online-bookmarks – YABS
- PHP Bookmarks – simple listings, has separate admin/browse views
- SiteBar – very feature rich, has DHTML tree view (not dynamically loading)
- Tasks – it’s not bookmarking software, but has nice features that could be applicable when designing a bookmarking system
- b. – collaborative bookmarking w/ some interesting features/ideas; nice looking also, but clumsy interface, very shoestringy (flat files/cgi)
- Booby – nicely done, has import/export, also has contacts, todo, notes and news (RSS), but is a big slow fat interface
- Bookmark4U – lots of features, not sure how many are useful, refresh too annoying to take closer look
- Bookmarker – this is the OG. Err, it hasn’t really been updated for the past 3 years though
Desired Features:
- Mozilla Integration
- Multiple Bookmark lists
- Multiple Sorts, Filtering, Fuzzy Searches
- Faceted Navigation
- DHTML/XUL interface, remote scripting
- Ability to handle duplicates
- Rating/data collection
- Metadata storage, Caching (what is an ‘url’ object model composed of?)
- Import/Export single links, RSS, XBEL
- Eventual Browser History integration
- Eventual KB/Wiki integration
- Bonus: Multi-user/group, fine grained access control
- Bonus: locally caching?
I’ll give SiteBar and Bookmark4U a try, but I have a feeling that I’ll probably not like either enough to stick w/ them.
- MusicMobs – low-tech AudioScrobbler?
- Asus WL-330 listed, – $61.95, not in stock. /me wants
- RED#NET – RED#NET intends to be a multi-functional, permeable, portable surface that reroutes and reapplies public space. (heehee)
- The National Archives Experience – well designed, quite fancy presentation of the “Charters of Freedom.” Hey, where’s the Patriot Act here? (*snicker*)
- The Federalist Papers – cleanse your palate after choking on bile of DOJ newspeak
It may be time for me to write a paper, if only to find referers from people who are working/thinking about interesting things within the space.
- While I’ve been zoned out, Eric’s been writing good stuff and getting boku linkpop on the DSS. w00t w00t
- Xanadu Redux: Citizen Kane, Deep Hypertext & Interactive Authoring – April 22 @ DML, USC
- How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think
- procrastination diagram – blog of Karl Ramm, MetaCarta employee; interesting thoughts on social networking software
- WiredReach –
the world’s first decentralized social networking software
– have they done everything already? - The Circle – australian P2P dark-net w/ decentralized hashtable (Chord), DRM privacy
- The Augmented Social Network: Building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet
This paper proposes the creation of an Augmented Social Network (ASN) that would build identity and trust into the architecture of the Internet, in the public interest, in order to facilitate introductions between people who share affinities or complementary capabilities across social networks. The ASN has three main objectives: 1) To create an Internet-wide system that enables more efficient and effective knowledge sharing between people across institutional, geographic, and social boundaries; 2) To establish a form of persistent online identity that supports the public commons and the values of civil society; and, 3) To enhance the ability of citizens to form relationships and self-organize around shared interests in communities of practice in order to better engage in the process of democratic governance. In effect, the ASN proposes a form of “online citizenship” for the Information Age.
- Tree Hash EXchange format (THEX) – still toread
- The case for generating URIs by hashing RDF content (PDF)
- Hashing Spatial Content over Peer-to-Peer Networks (PDF)
- Ivy: A Read/Write Peer-to-Peer File System (PDF)
- [Csci551-talk] content-hashing in p2p nets
- Google: Merkle Hash Trees
- A distributed approach to high-performance information retrieval
A distributed architecture and indexing algorithm for high-performance information retrieval has been developed. A prototype system has been built that achieves a throughput of 500 queries per second with a response time of less than one second on an 8-node network of workstations. The algorithm is robust in the presence of lost and duplicated messages as well as failures of nodes of the network. The architecture can be scaled up to larger networks and higher levels of service. The retrieval model allows for semantically rich queries and information objects.
- Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia – by Cory Doctorow, Aug 2001, on why metadata is intractible
- Social Bookmarks Manager Right-Click Context Menu
Last night I hacked together a bit of JavaScript to add a right-click context menu posting option to Joshua Schachter’s Social Bookmarks Manager.
- How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web
This follows Putting Facets on the
Web: An Annotated Bibliography, and is the second paper I wrote for
Prof. Clare Beghtol of the Faculty of
Information Studies at the University of Toronto, who led me in a
reading course named “Applying Faceted Classification in an Online World.”
(It’s also available as a PDF (215K)
which is formatted for printing.) - PubSub
PubSub Concepts provides real-time, content based publish and subscribe systems at internet scale. This site is a Beta version of our home page, which will provide a PubSub interface for weblogs and other information sources.
- Ontology, Metadata, and Semiotics
The Internet is a giant semiotic system. It is a massive collection of Peirce’s three kinds of signs: icons, which show the form of something; indices, which point to something; and symbols, which represent something according to some convention. But current proposals for ontologies and metadata have overlooked some of the most important features of signs. A sign has three aspects: it is (1) an entity that represents (2) another entity to (3) an agent. By looking only at the signs themselves, some metadata proposals have lost sight of the entities they represent and the agents ¾ human, animal, or robot ¾ which interpret them. With its three branches of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, semiotics provides guidelines for organizing and using signs to represent something to someone for some purpose. Besides representation, semiotics also supports methods for translating patterns of signs intended for one purpose to other patterns intended for different but related purposes. This article shows how the fundamental semiotic primitives are represented in semantically equivalent notations for logic, including controlled natural languages and various computer languages.
USC is a Pepsi campus. Who wants to set up cap-collection boxes around campus?
- Recycle some of your 100 million Pepsi Songs – /. thread on Tune Recycler BTW, as I’ve pointed out before, Menomena rocks. Oh, and so does Derek: CD Baby’s Digital Distribution – FREE! (see also Derek’s responses to DD criticism)
Personally, while the recycler is good for those that won’t/can’t redeem the iTunes, I think that a list of recommended artists/labels might be useful as well, for people who are looking to support the artists and find new music.
Some good reasons by iTunes is bogus. Remember, you own a CD you buy, but you get a EULA for your iTunes. You have no first-sale rights, no unregulated or fair use.