December 2004
December 27, 2004
Then and now
Writing in the face of tragedy feels like an empty gesture, but as I watched all that footage of the tsunamis, I kept thinking of the people I met in Phuket and Ko Phi Phi earlier this year. I can...
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December 27, 2004
Chasing tails
While I have serious misgivings about whether the public interest is really served by trying to "out" CIA agents, I have to admit the Washington Post has done an awfully impressive sleuthing job (with a big assist from the blogosphere)...
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December 25, 2004
Figuring on flickr
flickr has sparked some good new writing lately - by Gene and Salon's Katharine Mieszkowski, among others - but the most cogent analysis to date comes from Nadav, in which he correctly deduces that flickr is not a YASNS, but...
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December 23, 2004
Buddhabrot
"The Buddhabrot Set is a re-visualization of the familiar Mandelbrot Set ... The result is an amazing universe of structure, spirituality, and mathematical intrigue." (via kottke)...
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December 19, 2004
Citizen Matt redux
Eddie reminisces about his days stumping for the Matt Gonzalez campaign (which I encountered briefly last year)....
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December 19, 2004
"Challanged"
(from Yahoo! News)...
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December 17, 2004
Duly noted
It's been a while since I updated the blogroll, so thought I would take stock of a few new feeds crossing my radar these days: Somehow I missed that Jesse has started up again Dharma pal Erin shares her thoughts...
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December 6, 2004
Longhand search
U.Mass researchers have developed a new search tool for handwritten documents. The use of OCR'd text mapped to facsimile images reminds me of Olive's Activepaper tool, now in use at the British Library Newspaper Archive (via ">Battelle)...
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December 1, 2004
New School of Ontologies
Thomas Vanderwal points us to Nick Mote's paper, "Folksonomies: The New School of Ontologies," a nice rumination on the folksonomies thread that was percolating a few weeks back. One quote I liked: "Folksonomies are the bazaar to the ontology's cathedral."...
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