Maps n’ Data
A nice post on geodata and the mass annotation of geo-spacial data. We’re not making maps, we’re annotating space. It then goes on to data formats and the need for more open data:
I’m going to get all Creative Commonsly on you and state that we focus so much on art, music, and creative [...]
Folksonomy Provides 70 Percent More Terms Than Taxonomy
A short article on a study on how many terms users added versus the controlled vocabulary chosen for pieces of art. The discussion centers around the findability of items where 70% of the terms people use are not present. Usually the debate in libraries revolves around the noise [...]
Primality Regex - check a number to determine if it’s prime
Vegetable Gardening In Containers - Almost any vegetable that will grow in a typical backyard garden will also do well as a container-grown plant. Vegetables which are ideally suited for growing in containers include tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, green onions, beans, lettuce, squash, radishes and parsley.
Parasite [...]
KaBlog / Actiontastic - Ready, Set, Release
Cocoia Blog » Howto: An more secure OS X before Leopard (part 2). - This is a folow-up on my earlier how-to ?A more secure OS X before Leopard?.
Cocoia Blog » Howto: A more secure OS X before Leopard. - In this howto, I will show you some things [...]
Main Page - Wineformats - The purpose of this site is to describe and illustrate how wine information can be expressed using existing and well-defined microformats. It is our intention to use and leverage the microformat specifications wherever possible. This site will NOT be used to define new microformats for wine. Instead any specification [...]
Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin | FuCoder.com - A WordPress plugin that replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry?s (or archive?s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.
Cool URIs for the Semantic Web - The Resource Description Framework RDF allows you [...]
gmail-greasemonkey - Google Code -
ColorJack: Design Tools -
Main Page - OpenWetWare - OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.
Getting Things Done (GTD) for Scientists - MacResearch - Furthermore, I think it is a very useful [...]
“Welcome to LibraryQuest?” » “Self-plagiarism is style” - The more I thought about it, the more it started to dove-tail with store loyalty/reward cards ? we often penalise "bad" library behaviour (e.g. through fines) but rarely reward "good" behaviour. I always feel sorry for students who never been fined before and then genuinely [...]
WordPress/MySQL Tuning in Disruptive Library Technology Jester - Tweaking some configs.
Toothpaste For Dinner blog - Second Life - You could transform yourself into a giant penis for 200 fakebucks, but one could argue that you do that anyway by spending time in Second Life.
MIT Libraries News » Blog Archive » MIT Student Day [...]
HOWTO OpenID Trac plugin - Gentoo Linux Wiki -
johnaugust.com » Seven Things I Learned from World of Warcraft - I have few regrets about giving up Warcraft. But in retrospect, I did learn some valuable things from my time in Azeroth, lessons that have stuck with me. So I thought I?d share a few.
CodeIDE [...]
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: From YouTube to YouNiversity -
ModalBox ? An easy way to create popups and wizards - ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac [...]
Rdf In Html :: Embedded RDF Wiki :: Talis - This document describes how a subset of RDF can be embedded into XHTML or HTML by using common idioms and attributes. No new elements or attributes have been invented and the usages of the HTML attributes are within normal bounds. [...]
GPLLA Learning 2.0 Tools - (elearning elearning)
MySQL Performance Blog » Content delivery system design mistakes - Note this list applies to static content distribution, dynamic content has some of its own issues which need different treatment. (webdev webdev)
XML.com: Introducing RDFa - The W3C is developing a new, simpler syntax called RDFa (originally called "RDF/a") [...]
Open Source Software and Libraries Bibliography - (libraries open_source libraries open_source)
wg:Bubble Tooltips - (css webdev javascript css webdev javascript)
Make VLC the default player (OS X) | Ask MetaFilter - (osx video osx video)
Osama Team Hunger Force - CollegeHumor video - About a week ago, here’s what Boston actually thought. (humor humor)
Ajax auto-suggest [...]
Matt Thomas » An enigma, wrapped in a paradox, inside a jelly donut. - An enigma, wrapped in a paradox, inside a jelly donut.
Top 10 Ruby on Rails performance tips -
The GTD Mastery 100 -
Ocean North : The Astereostudio Testing Ground. Warning, may cause side effects! -
National Gazette -
These have been sitting around for too long so here they are:
Over at Science Library Pad there is a post about SOA and the need to analyze business cases. I don’t fully agree with the option of depending on general search engines but providing better outputs and formats (api’s, microformats, etc), I definitely agree with. [...]
Parental disappointment has changed over the years
Presentation on the Business Benefits of Web Standards
Survey on why we still buy hardcopy items in libraries. Taking submissions until October 31st.
Joyent Core - a compelling hosting solution. I’ve thought about textdrive and strongspace but the bundle looks really good.
Blog as Compost Heap - interesting idea and execution. As [...]
Some more stuff I should post more about:
Darcus talks about RDF and FRBR and the death of MARC
Video sites are expanding, here’s a cooking show that looks quite nice.
For those doing redesigns, 10 things that will make or break your website
Google has released a few new things such as code search, a ping service for [...]
Here’s some stuff I probably could post more about:
Branding for the small screen - many companies are changing their branding to work at small resolutions. Something for libraries to keep in mind as people start using the pda, phone and other devices to browse the catalog. Think about where your logo will be shown when [...]
Still bogged down in beginning of semester problems but I’m hopeful to get some posts up soon.
Jon Udell has a screen cast showing Amazon EC2 in use. I’ve read about some of the research labs and other people who are putting EC2 to use and I think there is a lot of potential. You no [...]
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