- ARCHIVE / Just Blogging
- Text Encoding Initiative – a historical paper
I read this interesting paper from Allen Renear, met at SoSornet-06 a few weeks ago in London. Theory and Metatheory in the Development of Text Encoding, Allen Renear, Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University November 3, 1995. I just managed to put my hands on an old working draft, but it seems complete. It’s a seminal […]
- End of OU-broadcasting
from BBC-news: An OU spokesman said: “Just as there are different ways to dress, there are different ways to deliver education.” He added: “As technology has changed, we have slowly phased out broadcasts of this course-related material. It’s a whole lot easier to send students DVDs or CDs than it is to get them to […]
- Fink fhink think
There a class of applications that conquered a big slice of new mac users, after the appearance of OSX: the applications coming from UNIX. I’m not one of them unfortunately (or maybe luckily), but with the time I’m more and more appreciating all that free stuff, apparently difficult to understand. Cause it makes you feel […]
- Smultron text editor
A nice alternative to BBedit (which beyond being not free, takes a long time to load on my machine – too many plugins installed maybe) is Smultron. Just found out about it – many features, programmed in Cococa, and FREE Smultron is a text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or […]
- A Cyberspace Atlas
Wow half past ten friday night, I had a paper to finish and now I feel like my eyes are getting lost into the screen… just a brief post to conclude the week. I got a REALLY cool link about visualization from Mark. Lots of classified projects, stuff which was not covered by more recent […]
- Free learning resources from the OU
The Open Learn project has been launched not many weeks ago: The Open University’s commitment to broadening access to education is being taken to another level with the launch of OpenLearn, its major new open content initiative. The OpenLearn website will make educational resources freely available on the internet, with state of the art learning […]
- Morning quote
Phd life.. it’s easy to lose track of what you’re looking for, and even more, of where you’re coming from. This morning I ran into a quote from Marcel Proust that offered an interesting and inspiring perspective on the overall process… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having […]
- Firefox 2.0 – will I ever go back to Safari?
Unfortunately, this is the truth – it looks and performs greatly. It’s Firefox 2. I just installed it, (yes it’s a “boring” saturday afternoon, just me and my mac) and found out some new and old features… I was particularly missing the possibility of having dropdown folders on the bookmark bar (like in Safari), and […]
- Howar Gardner’s talk
Just went to Howar Gardner‘s talk at the OU. He’s the one mostly famous for the theory of multiple intelligences. Don’t think he’s the only one claiming such things, but reading through the wikipedia article I kind of gathered the existence of some experimental evidence behind these ideas. It says: An intelligence, he feels, is […]
- Review: Automatist storyteller systems and the shifting sands of story, by G. Davenport and M. Murtaugh
A few notes after reading a seminal paper (1997) by MIT research Glorianna Davenport on ‘storyteller systems’. I would say that these systems can be seen as the precursors of current systems that support semantic exploration through stories (the only difference is the technology being used). This is a very good article in terms of […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
