Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
Via Boing Boing, Clay Shirky comments with a comparison of the advantages of folksonomies vs. “controlled vocabularies”. Key points I take from him: Controlled vocabularies are not extensible to the majority of cases where tagging is needed. folksonomies are better Continue reading Pro metadata will lose to folksonomy
Map.Search.Ch via Simon Willison’s Weblog uses XMLHttpRequest and a bunch of other tricks to let you smoothly pan and zoom over an enormous and detailed map of Switzerland, based on satelite photos. Zoom, drag, play…Wow, right up there with Magical Continue reading Map.Search.ch : XMLHttpRequest Switzerland
Via Blackbeltjones, my del.icio.us Brain visualized : What does yours look like? Go to extispicious, type in your del.icio.us username, then post it to the extispicious group on Flickr
RDF Site Summary (RSS) files, based on XML, provide an open method of syndicating and aggregating Web content. A RSS Aggregator or News Reader enables you to quickly read and gather information from hundreds of web sites – without having Continue reading What’s a RSS News Aggregator?
“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” R. A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Herb Sutter has posted :The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software which will appear in Dr. Dobb’s Continue reading TANSTAAFL : The Concurrency Revolution
Via Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow’s newest novel (‘Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town‘, May 1 2005) and next work (“Themepunks”) is hinted at in News from The Agony Column, Whuffie gets mentioned in Utne Mag : The Karma Economy, Continue reading Urban Magic and Accelerando