Backchannel was good, and backchannel was fun, but was I the better or worse for having participated in it? I usually take personal notes at these types of conferences, and with IRC up the whole time the backchannel became my offboard note-taking file. This is good because my notes got to synergize with other peoples’, […]
Category Archives: General
Summer Taiwan Trip
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¡Libertad!
11-May-05As of Monday evening, I finished the last final exam I’ll most likely ever take in my life. Wow. It really was a whimper-type rather than a bang-type ending. The class was Algorithms, the one that I’d put off taking for all of my academic career ’til now. Not because it’s not an interesting subject […]
On Things Folksonomic
04-May-05Stefano’s Linotype has a good essay on emergent folksonomy, especially how it applies to del.icio.us and the different-people-use-the-same-word-to-mean-different-things problem. His solution to colliding semantics is to augment syntax to document things. This is good, but it overlooks the fact that I myself might use the same tag to refer to different things.
Freetag
19-Apr-05Freetag – an Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications. Gordon is awesome.
Mass Transit and Google Maps
19-Apr-05Spent the good part of an hour yesterday night helping my girlfriend navigate between Big Blue Bus and Culver City Bus routes, so that she can get from Westwood to Culver city without a car. What a pain. After seeing the wonderful hack combining housing on Craigslist with Google Maps, it seems like it might […]