2008 Feb 8, 3:24FTA: "...Using a mix of natural language processing, AI techniques, and a massive databases, Reuters' solution extracts important bits of information from raw HTML pages. People, Companies, Places,
and Events are really at the heart of many business artic
via:sambrook api reuters news tagging semantic semantic-web web 2008 Feb 8, 11:21FTA: "I was quite troubled to realize today that I couldn't list ten major differences between Sweden and Norway. All my best Livejournal pals lent a hand and we came up with this
not-entirely-comprehensive list."
map humor via:boingboing norway sweden europe geography information visualization 2008 Feb 3, 11:04On the Internet perfect copies may be made forever so what's left to pay for? Kevin Kelly describes eight such things.
internet article blog ip technology copyright economics information kevin-kelly 2008 Jan 30, 2:01Lots of links to tools to help visualize RDF graphs. Referenced tools aren't necessarily restricted to visualizing RDF graphs -- at least some visualize plain old graphs like GraphViz (Yay for
GraphViz!).
via:ethan_t_hein rdf graph visualization tools 2008 Jan 2, 2:13FTA: "Seems that a number of villages in the English countryside are being overrun by errant trans-European trucks which are regularly misdirected by their GPS satnav systems onto roads that were
better suited for horse-drawn carriages than big, long-dist
gps humor article metadata blog england 2007 Nov 28, 4:43How to use FOAF and OpenID together and how DIG used that as a basis for commenting on their blog.
foaf openid authentication identity rdf semanticweb trust web spam 2007 Nov 15, 4:04Coming soon: case law freely available in the public domain.
copyright government information internet law legal 2007 Nov 7, 9:41Algorithm to tell you which blogs to read to be the most up to date. Graphs which blogs aggregate from other blogs.
information graph network news blog 2007 Oct 29, 7:07Two brief updates to previous posts:
- I noted that I had a new entry on the IE blog. Some comments on the IE blog have recently been rude in their request for information
on future versions of IE. For example see the first two comments responding to my post. Feeling bad about that
I looked at my posts entry on delicious and saw the following:
"This is the first blog from the IE team that I have found rigorous and informative. I skipped to the bottom to find it was written by one of the TA's from my first class at Cal
Poly."
That made me feel a bit better and I was able to catch up with someone from college. Thanks Kris!
- I previously had my GPS set with an Australian accent. When it encountered 'WA', as in the abbreviation for Washington in freeway
exits, it pronounced it 'Western Australia'. Now I've got it with a British accent and WA is just 'W.A.' but when I tell it to drive to 'MS', the name of my saved location for work, it pronounces
it 'Manuscript'.
microsoft blog gps personal nontechnical 2007 Sep 21, 3:33Article on the graph of the relationships between you and your friends and the associated concepts and issues.
via:infosthetics graph social visualization information privacy blog article larry-osterman 2007 Sep 18, 2:16Sarah got me the
Garmin StreetPilot c580 for my birthday last month. I really like this because its a small device that makes my
life easier without me having to learn anything new. Just the way tech. should be.
The device gets current weather, traffic, and movie times. The information is sent via FM and received via the FM receiver in the cigarette lighter power adapter of the GPS device. MSN sends out this
info and I get a free one year subscription. In addition to taking traffic info into account when planning my route it will estimate the number of minutes I'm going to spend in traffic. Just knowing
how long I might be in traffic somehow makes it more bareable.
The other day while driving for dinner I got a call. I got my phone out of my pocket and answered it. I heard Jon's saying 'Hello' under my passenger seat. After a moment of confusion I remembered
that the GPS device also acts as a bluetooth hands free phone adapter and that it was under my seat.
gps garmin personal traffic nontechnical 2007 Sep 11, 2:55There's been
some news recently on some guy hating on FireFox for its ad-blocking.
On a similar note here's a fun tip for IE7 users I got from Eric. You can get decent ad-blocking in IE7 by putting ad servers in the restricted zone. By default script inclusion is blocked between
different zones so you can put domains that serve up ads in your restricted zone after which, normal internet zone sites won't be able to include script from them. This covers most of the ads I run
into these days.
I use
Fiddler to figure out the domains that are serving up ads which incidentally also has an ad-blocking^H^H^H^H general purpose content blocking plugin. Here's
a screenshot of Slashdot and ArsTechnica from my browser. Notice the large blank areas in the screenshots:
ad-blocking personal ad ie7 technical browser tip ie 2007 Jul 23, 3:19List of sites to find public information on folks.
background search database birthday library identity privacy public phone lifehack 2007 Jul 4, 11:03By H5 the same group who did the Royksopp, Remind Me infographic video
h5 music video music-video commercial areva funkytown information visualization 2007 Jun 4, 4:39David Weinberger (of Everything is Miscellaneous) gives talk about how the Internet has or will change storage and structure of information in a Google Tech Talk.
google video taxonomy david-weinberger 2007 May 13, 6:59Presentation on graph visualization.
data information design google video visualization graph 2007 May 13, 5:11An presentation on 'spimes' objects that are Internet addressable and produce information about themselves and their surroundings
spime google video presentation cyberpunk uri information web technology future
Some rights reserved