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

My brother is now working for a law firm and already he's telling me to “lean on the Office team” and get them to fix their software so that he can dump Word Perfect. He told me, here, read what Ernie the Attorney said about Word.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

The Impossible Task for America's Spies. The Bush administration's doctrine of pre-emption presumes that American intelligence can ferret out the most secret of foreign science with near infallibility. By William J. Broad. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

I bought a new PowerBook G4 yesterday at the Apple Store at the Northshore Mall in Peabody.