Month: May 2003

Cyberarts/eNarrative slides. Here are the PowerPoint slides from Saturday's talk at the Boston Public Library [108 KB] and here is the HTML version. There's not much different in here from the last few presentations I've posted. The session was very interesting and I learned a lot from my fellow presenters, especially relating to hypertext. Looks… Continue reading Cyberarts/eNarrative slides

Companies Unprepared for California Data Privacy Law. More unintended consequences of well-intentioned technology legislation – new California law may have widespread impact. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Who is really running the US. Karl Rove. And he was not elected. James Moore, quoted in a Washington Post article: Karl Rove led the nation to war to improve the political prospects of George W. Bush. I know how surreal that sounds. But I also know it is true.”As the president's chief political advisor,… Continue reading Who is really running the US

Etch a Site as Easy as Pie. Denim, a new sketching tool that allows entire websites to be designed as a series of rough drawings, is becoming a hit with designers. It's also being used by open-source programmers to build better interfaces for Linux. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

Keyword extraction and facet analysis for email archives. Kathryn La Barre and Chris Dent have been experimenting with computational methods for creating a faceted access structure of the Unrev-II mailing list archives. The email archive of the unrev-ii list is the basis for this ongoing project, to build an access tool for an email archive… Continue reading Keyword extraction and facet analysis for email archives

Bayesian vs. latent semantic analysis. By way of Michael Alderete's blog, I found this fascinating item by Tim Oren, a venture capitalist whose eight-year stint at Apple included advanced research on the use of latent semantic analysis for document categorization. Although he can't say for sure, Oren strongly suspects that although OS X Mail is… Continue reading Bayesian vs. latent semantic analysis

Edward De Bono has serious insight into why we think the way that we do. I'm currently reading Edward De Bono's I Am Right – You Are Wrong, along with two other books written by him.  De Bono is mostly known for having coined the term “lateral thinking,” which is a mode of thinking that can… Continue reading Edward De Bono has serious insight into why we think the way that we do

Real code is important. Dave Winer says that the Semantic Web is overhyped. I'd say it's worse than that. The whole metadata movement is overhyped. Folks are always trying to get me to type in some metadata. Look at Microsoft Office from a few years ago. It tried to get me to enter in more… Continue reading Real code is important

Oh the Things We Could Do with WorldCat!. Wow – Peter Janes caught a heck of a post by Tim Bray about OCLC's WorldCat database! About as Big as the Web “In recent months, I've been having serious fun on the job working with OCLC WorldCat data. WorldCat is big – about as big as… Continue reading Oh the Things We Could Do with WorldCat!

Adaptive Path: Fifteen Tips for Remote Collaboration. It will always be easier to rally a group of people who work in the same building, but you can accomplish just as much (or more) with a motivated remote team. Getting team members motivated in the first place and holding their interest are your goals. Here are… Continue reading Fifteen Tips for Remote Collaboration