Which types of news/information sites should be most bookmark-friendly: Entertainment listings.I’ve altered my Movable Type templates to use the entry title as the page title on daily archive pages with only one entry. On days with more than one entry, it falls back to the date.
In a community spirit (and with permission of my publisher), I am making my book in progress available to the Python community. I do this in order to provide a resource to readers–who will certainly become future buyers of my book, once it makes it to the dead trees.
The ‘Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series’ will be available first as hardcopy in bookstores, and the Open Source text will be available electronically a few months later. Prentice Hall is counting on people buying the books even though the electronic version will be freely available later.I’d love to write one. Fear of draconian licensing terms is one of the things that has been holding me back from pursuing a printed book contract (despite several offers).
The Semantic Web is about people, and specifically about making people’s voices clearly audible and indelible.
I not only agree completely with Joshua, I’ll take it farther by saying that the Semantic Web will never be built with today’s system of dumb links — links with no inherent meaning attached to them other than their numeric value. All links do is push a resource’s rank up, piling link after link like pieces of wood for a bon fire; except instead of using dead trees we’re using dead links. Torch the piles! Reject the concept of “all we need is links, sweet links”! Burn down the house that Google built.
I also wouldn’t be so fast to toss aside the winnowing process of popularity. If you want to add other filters, by all means. But it seems to me what the pro RDF people are asking is for all of us to change how we do what we do in order to enable that style of filtering. I’m always reluctant to invest in things that no can one can prove will do what they say because we all have to do it first.
I like very much Joshua Allen’s refusal to distinguish between knowledge (truth) and lies since that refusal acknowledges (in a formal or technical context) the way in which, in our everyday lives, we hide the truth so artfully from ourselves and from others, as one of my favorite poems, by the tenth century Japanese writer, Ki no Tsurayuki, suggests.
I finally got my act together and added the GeoURL meta tags to my site. Here’s my geographical bloghood.Here’s mine. Not much there yet, but it’s an interesting idea nonetheless.
It’s much easier to talk to the CEO of a company than it is to get a meeting with all the drones that report to him. They’re too busy doing what he wants. And so many people are afraid of the CEO, no one talks to him either. And he wants to know what the hell is going on in the world and is often open to talking to a half-way intelligent person.
The thing I like the most about the newest PowerBook is that I don’t feel I’m sacrificing anything to get portability.
Utility and agency is being pushed to the endpoints, where, with little explicit coordination, people use a suite of simple tools to get things done. One of the things that this discussion made abundantly clear is that the solution to enable collaboration is not really a technical one (much beyond the simple tools). It’s a management one.
It’s weird to feel yourself growing. You look around, and everythings a little lower than it was a few minutes ago. You stretch, and your muscles don’t contract. And you stretch a lot. Nobody else seems to notice.
Although it is easy to centre elements horizontally in a CSS box, there is no direct equivalent of the ‘valign’ used for vertical alignment inside table cells — but there is a way to spoof it.
In spite of (or perhaps because of) my reputation as a reclusive quasi- Pynchonian luddite shunning the net (or word-processors, depending on what you Google) I hope to be here on a more or less daily basis.No word on an RSS feed yet. Any scrapers in the audience? Update: Adam Wendt hacked up one: William Gibson RSS.
title to my stylesheet link, so Mozilla users can easily disable it. Or something.Jon Lech Johansen has been acquitted of all charges in a trial that tested the legality of the DeCSS DVD decryption utility he produced.
With no evidence that Mr Johansen was engaged in piracy or that he was aiding others to illegally copy disks the Norwegian court had no choice but to acquit the teenager.
The drive has both FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces, ships with the Maxtor OneTouch push button backup copying functionality, and includes Dantz Retrospect Express backup software. Pricing is $400.That’s $2 per gigabyte. I remember when floppies were $2.
One thing worth noting is that, whereas with a Windows install you’ll have to do a significant amount of faffing around installing hardware drivers afterwards, Linux in most cases comes with enough to at least get you going – so the install is actually quicker and easier.
Despite my eclectic tastes in books, movies, music, and television programs, like everyone else, there are limits on my time and attention. … I’ve sectioned off a small part of the vast cinematic world and said “this part is mine, these movies are the ones I’m comfortable with, and the rest not so much.” Burningbird, on the other hand, argues that this is regrettable. And she’s right.For the record, I am most definitely passionate about discovering new, unheard voices. I use all available resources and tools to find such voices, and when those fail me, I write my own. I read voraciously. I can’t stand the thought that there are interesting people out there that I’m not reading, that I haven’t even heard of. I’ll do whatever it takes to enable this.
Textpattern is a publishing system designed for those who want to write for the web. Its bells and whistles are many, but it is above all very simple to use. Little knowledge of internet technology is required to install and use it; the production of valid, standards-compliant web pages is basic to its operation.
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