blog  Five new ways to read Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

Aug 2026

blog  AI Skills Are a Cottage Industry - And That Might Be Permanent.

Jun 2026

blog  What the data doesn't show: presenting at CLACSO's funding flows project.

Apr 2026

blog  The Shifting Landscape of Research Analytics: From Data Access to Trustworthy Insights.

Mar 2026

blog  Event: Hayden Thorpe live in Pordenone.

Oct 2025

blog  Event: Installation at Sydney Data Arena.

Mar 2025

blog  Unpacking OpenAlex topics classification.

Sep 2024

blog  Livecoding: Techno jam.

Jul 2024

blog  Livecoding: Ping pong delays.

Mar 2024

blog  Livecoding: Out of this world (2024-02).

Feb 2024

blog  Livecoding: Dreamy pianos - Study No 2 in B Minor.

Jan 2024

blog  Livecoding: Dreamy pianos - Study No 1 in C Minor.

Dec 2023

blog  Designing great dashboards: a slidedeck.

Jul 2023

blog  Notes from the book: Deep Work (2016).

Jul 2023

blog  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Jun 2023

blog  SciGraph 2017-2023.

Feb 2023

blog  Paperpile: a PDF manager with Google Drive backend.

Jan 2023

blog  Ontospy version 2.0 released.

Oct 2022

blog  Bringing quotations back to life.

Jul 2022

blog  A semi-automated conference assistant.

Jun 2022

blog  Livecoding: exploring Bento noise box.

May 2022

blog  Three things I do *not* like about Looker.

Apr 2022

blog  Livecoding: Study for Cello and Double-bass.

Apr 2022

blog  Three things I like about Looker.

Mar 2022

blog  A static site generator using Django, Wget and Github Pages.

Nov 2021

blog  Terminal script: getting the time in different world time zones.

Sep 2021

blog  Recipe: Making a livecoding screencast with QuickTime and RecordIt.

Aug 2021

blog  Livecoding: Rhythmic Cycles.

Apr 2021

blog  Livecoding visual patterns with Hydra.

Apr 2021

blog  Extempore functions explorer updated to latest library release v0.8.9.

Feb 2021

blog  'The Kryos Noise' is available on Spotify.

Jan 2021

blog  'The Musical Code' on GitHub.

Nov 2020

blog  Livecoding: Piano Scales.

Nov 2020

blog  More Jupyter notebooks: pyvis and networkx.

Aug 2020

blog  Getting to grips with Google Colab.

Jan 2020

blog  Calculating Industry Collaborations via GRID.

Jan 2020

blog  Pypapers: a bare-bones, command-line PDF manager.

Jun 2019

blog  Introducing DimCli: a Python CLI for the Dimensions API.

May 2019

blog  Running interactive Jupyter demos with mybinder.org.

May 2019

blog  Overriding default VSCode snippets.

Apr 2019

blog  SN SciGraph Latest Release: Patents, Clinical Trials and many new features.

Mar 2019

blog  Zero Hunger Hack Day: surfacing research about the Sustainable Development Goals program.

Feb 2019

blog  Ontospy 1.9.8 released.

Jan 2019

blog  Exploring scholarly publications using DBPedia concepts: an experiment.

Nov 2018

blog  SN SciGraph: more related objects links increase discoverability of content.

Aug 2018

blog  PySciGraph: simple API for accessing SN SciGraph content.

Jun 2018

blog  SN SciGraph is part of the Linked Open Data Cloud 2018.

May 2018

blog  Interesting read: 'SciSci' i.e. the science of science.

Mar 2018

blog  SciGraph publishes 1 billion facts as Linked Open Data.

Nov 2017

blog  Exploring SciGraph data using JSON-LD, Elastic Search and Kibana.

Apr 2017

blog  OntoSpy v.1.7.4.

Feb 2017

blog  How to copy snippets from Github Gists to Dash.

Dec 2016

blog  Apple Keynote: extracting presenter notes to Markdown.

Nov 2016

blog  Leipzig Semantics 2016 conference.

Oct 2016

blog  Open Data Summit 2016.

Oct 2016

blog  Ontospy v. 1.6.7.

Jun 2016

blog  SpotiSci: finding science concepts on Spotify.

Apr 2016

blog  Nature.com Subjects Stream Graph.

Jan 2016

blog  Accessing OS X dictionary with Python.

Nov 2015

blog  Another experiment with Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

Sep 2015

blog  Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge?.

Sep 2015

blog  Towards an ontology for philosophy.

Jun 2015

blog  Recent projects from CrossRef.org.

Jun 2015

blog  A sneak peek at Nature.com articles' archive.

Jun 2015

blog  Impromptu language documentation back online!.

May 2015

blog  Nature.com ontologies portal available online.

Apr 2015

blog  Tribute to Alice in Chains (sort of).

Feb 2015

blog  Notes from the Force11 annual conference.

Jan 2015

blog  Take control of your digital annotations with ResQuotes.com.

Jan 2015

blog  Italian public spending data: a review.

Dec 2014

blog  Dereference a DOI using python.

Dec 2014

blog  ISWC14 paper: a hybrid semantic publishing architecture combining XML and RDF.

Nov 2014

blog  Installing Stardog triplestore on mac os.

Nov 2014

blog  Installing ClioPatria triplestore on mac os.

Oct 2014

blog  Installing GraphDB (aka OWLIM) triplestore on mac os.

Oct 2014

blog  An interactive Turtle shell.

Oct 2014

blog  How to visualize a big taxonomy within a single webpage?.

Aug 2014

blog  Nature.com subject pages available online!.

Jun 2014

blog  Annotating the web with Scrible.

Dec 2013

blog  New livecoding screencast: Ziggurat 51.

Nov 2013

blog  Building a master volumes UI with impromptu.

Sep 2013

blog  Textmate bundle for Turtle and Sparql.

Aug 2013

blog  Creating useful classifications with taxonomies (part 1).

Jul 2013

blog  Messing around wih D3.js and hierarchical data.

Jun 2013

blog  ESWC 2013 - report from the conference.

Jun 2013

blog  Annual Bliss Classification Association Lecture: using faceted browsers in the DH.

Apr 2013

blog  An introduction to Neo4j.

Apr 2013

blog  Agile vs Waterfall… a few misconceptions revealed.

Feb 2013

blog  A metronome object for Impromptu.

Feb 2013

blog  2012: a look back (for this blog).

Jan 2013

blog  Semantic Web Cheat Sheets.

Nov 2012

blog  Infographics Course, Week 2.

Nov 2012

blog  Infographics Course, Week 1.

Nov 2012

blog  Teaching programming concepts visually with the Online Python Tutor.

Oct 2012

blog  Open Knowledge Festival – Helsinki, 18-22 September 2012.

Sep 2012

blog  Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland... one step at a time.

Sep 2012

blog  Using Mendeley and Dropbox to sync your pdf library across computers.

Aug 2012

blog  Wittgenstein Tractatus and the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit.

Jul 2012

blog  Crowdsourcing interpretation with Prism, a new software from the Scholar's Lab.

Jun 2012

blog  The role of Digital Humanities in a natural disaster.

May 2012

blog  DJFacet 0.9.7: MPTT hierarchical facets now supported!.

May 2012

blog  Getting hold of your Flickr collections with Python.

May 2012

blog  Conference: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology.

Mar 2012

blog  Composing at the metalevel.

Mar 2012

blog  The Future of the Book: reading and annotating online.

Mar 2012

blog  HTML5 Canvas Cookbook.

Feb 2012

blog  Setting up the new 'staticfiles' app on Django 1.3.

Jan 2012

blog  Special issue of CMJ DVD on livecoding.

Jan 2012

blog  Article: Thought and Performance, Live Coding Music, Explained to Anyone.

Dec 2011

blog  Using Impromptu to visualize RSS feeds.

Dec 2011

blog  Towards a conceptual model for the domain of sculpture.

Nov 2011

blog  Upgrading to Lion: tips and tricks.

Oct 2011

blog  Seminar: Tagore digital editions and Bengali textual computing.

Oct 2011

blog  Django B_project available on gitHub.

Oct 2011

blog  Article: Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music.

Oct 2011

blog  Luc Steels on creating artificial semiotic systems.

Sep 2011

blog  Event: THATcamp Kansas and Digital Humanities Forum.

Sep 2011

blog  Getting lost in the world of Laputa.

Sep 2011

blog  First steps with Canvas and HTML5.

Aug 2011

blog  Inspecting an ontology with RDFLib.

Jul 2011

blog  Workshop on Live Coding @ RMLL-11.

Jul 2011

blog  Event: Livecoding 'Fjords' in Paris & Strasbourg.

Jul 2011

blog  Event: Digital Humanities conference 2011.

Jun 2011

blog  Livecoding is like gardening.

Jun 2011

blog  Bjork redefines the musician's product with 'Biophilia' album/app.

Jun 2011

blog  Enabling web-audio in Chrome.

Jun 2011

blog  DJFacet: a faceted browser for Django.

Jun 2011

blog  Hack4Europe! - Europeana hackathon roadshow, June 2011.

May 2011

blog  The new Livecoding Error Hook in Impromptu.

May 2011

blog  Ether festival.

Apr 2011

blog  RDF programming with AllegroCL and AllegroGraph.

Apr 2011

blog  A Space Odyssey Live with Philharmonia Orchestra.

Apr 2011

blog  Sound Reasoning: an open educational resource.

Apr 2011

blog  An alternative to the 'play' macro: 'iplay' and 'with-instrument'.

Mar 2011

blog  A few useful Linked Data resources.

Mar 2011

blog  'Show us your screens': new Live Coding documentary.

Feb 2011

blog  Survey of Pythonic tools for RDF and Linked Data programming.

Feb 2011

blog  Installing PIL on Djangostack 1.1.1/1.2/1.3.

Feb 2011

blog  What is the reaper time in Impromptu?.

Feb 2011

blog  Python links (and more) 7/2/11.

Feb 2011

blog  Opening a Finder window from Impromptu (or how to use the AppleScript bridge).

Jan 2011

blog  Live coding in Clojure.

Jan 2011

blog  Setting up Django Registration.

Jan 2011

blog  The Digital Story of Nativity and other inspiring stuff.

Jan 2011

blog  Working toward meritocracy in Italy.

Jan 2011

blog  Livecoding: Turborobot.

Dec 2010

blog  Event: Livecoding Xmas event @ Goldsmith College, London.

Dec 2010

blog  JMusic: music composition in Java.

Dec 2010

blog  Installing Mercurial on OSx 10.6.5.

Dec 2010

blog  Clojure or not clojure?.

Nov 2010

blog  Preloading stuff in django's interactive shell.

Nov 2010

blog  Ryoji Ikeda.

Nov 2010

blog  Scheme and Lisp.

Nov 2010

blog  A video that may convince you that LISPers are a bit crazy.

Oct 2010

blog  Ozric Tentacles live @ Islington Academy, London.

Oct 2010

blog  Jeff Beck live at the Royal Albert Hall.

Oct 2010

blog  Editing PDF metadata on OSx (ie: having the Kindle display the right title/author with pdfs).

Oct 2010

blog  This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers.

Oct 2010

blog  Gmail labels sorting order.

Oct 2010

blog  Amazon's Kindle is slowly changing my life.

Oct 2010

blog  Impromptu 2.5 released.

Oct 2010

blog  Mathematics and our body.

Oct 2010

blog  Mapping stereotypes.

Sep 2010

blog  NoDictionaries.com :: innovative way to read latin classics.

Sep 2010

blog  Raphael: js library for Scalar Vector Graphics.

Sep 2010

blog  Musorg : tons of classical music for free.

Sep 2010

blog  The Bad Plus - Iron Man.

Sep 2010

blog  Ars Electronica 2010.

Sep 2010

blog  Little brilliant music player: Pico Play.

Sep 2010

blog  KR workshop #2: introducing CIDOC-CRM and FRBR-OO.

Aug 2010

blog  Learning resources about Scheme.

Aug 2010

blog  Listen to the RainForest at Kew Gardens.

Aug 2010

blog  Trying out Django-cms.

Aug 2010

blog  Knowledge Representation workshop @ CCH.

Jul 2010

blog  The power of django's Q objects.

Jul 2010

blog  Space Invaders for iPhone.

Jul 2010

blog  Bernstein's Mass at Royal Festival Hall.

Jul 2010

blog  DjangoCon Europe 2010.

Jun 2010

blog  Ozrics back on the road!.

Jun 2010

blog  PLOrk @=> Spring 2010 Concert.

Jun 2010

blog  The Rebirth of Rebirth!.

Jun 2010

blog  Back to iMovie HD ....

Jun 2010

blog  Django debug toolbar.

May 2010

blog  Creativity and personal mastery.

Apr 2010

blog  Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools.

Mar 2010

blog  Links to CS 193P iPhone dev lectures.

Mar 2010

blog  Victim of the Brain.

Mar 2010

blog  Tale of tales: artistic interactive games from Belgium.

Mar 2010

blog  Japanese figurative paintings.

Mar 2010

blog  BBC article on interactive art at Goldsmith University (London).

Mar 2010

blog  Nanoloop.

Feb 2010

blog  Processing.js, iProcessing: javascript does everything for you!.

Feb 2010

blog  Impromptu: access the Wiki docs from the editor.

Feb 2010

blog  Rock intermezzo.

Feb 2010

blog  Python debugging and Textmate.

Feb 2010

blog  Event: livecoding session @ Anatomy Theatre, King's College, London.

Feb 2010

blog  Getting back to the ontological work...

Feb 2010

blog  The anti-internet saga continues.

Feb 2010

blog  Apple's iPad has been announced...

Jan 2010

blog  MacBook: getting the backlight to behave the way you want.

Jan 2010

blog  Livecoding night @ King's College coming up.

Jan 2010

blog  A bookmarklet for searching delicious.

Jan 2010

blog  Japanese Terror in Sancasan.

Jan 2010

blog  Links 4/1/10.

Jan 2010

blog  Livecoding: Xanadu.

Jan 2010

blog  Free Zebra patches.

Dec 2009

blog  Pyglet: multimedia library for python.

Dec 2009

blog  Creating Questionnaires with Django.

Dec 2009

blog  Livecoding: Kali (an experiment with Impromptu).

Nov 2009

blog  The Four Pillars of the Ethical Company.

Nov 2009

blog  Django signals.

Nov 2009

blog  Graphics over code in Impromptu.

Nov 2009

blog  Django 1.1: LogOut links apparently broken.

Nov 2009

blog  Visualizing Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

Oct 2009

blog  Impromptu: If-mod macro.

Oct 2009

blog  Yolk : Python packages index.

Oct 2009

blog  LilyPond: music notation for everyone.

Oct 2009

blog  UML to django.

Oct 2009

blog  Impromptu & Zebra: a perfect match!.

Oct 2009

blog  Installing PyGraphviz [tested on OSx Leopard].

Oct 2009

blog  Pong screensaver.

Oct 2009

blog  Autocomplete in Django #2.

Oct 2009

blog  Event: Livecoding at the Shunt, London & a few lessons learned.

Oct 2009

blog  Using jquery's autocomplete in Django's admin: what about 'inlines'?.

Sep 2009

blog  Project: django SOCLONE.

Sep 2009

blog  Using Django-MPTT: lessons learned....

Sep 2009

blog  Learning iPhone development while sitting on your couch.

Sep 2009

blog  Weird 'example.com' urls appearing on my django site....

Sep 2009

blog  MySQL-Python and Apple OSX 10.5 (Leopard).

Aug 2009

blog  Michael Nyman's concert.

Aug 2009

blog  Satire you won't be able to listen to in Italy.

Aug 2009

blog  Social Reference Manager: Mendeley.

Aug 2009

blog  Django admin and MPTT #2.

Aug 2009

blog  Freeze any webapp with Fluid.

Aug 2009

blog  Representing hierarchical data with Django and MPTT.

Aug 2009

blog  Document.designMode trick...

Aug 2009

blog  End of this adventure...

Aug 2009

blog  NLP for Classical Studies.

Jul 2009

blog  Python web-parsing libraries.

Jul 2009

blog  Roman Port Networks project.

Jul 2009

blog  Algorithmic music: first steps.

Jun 2009

blog  Logic and Ontology.

Jun 2009

blog  Understanding Google's BigTable.

Jun 2009

blog  Share and browse links with MultiUrl.

Jun 2009

blog  Visualizing Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ.

Jun 2009

blog  WordSift: visualize text.

Jun 2009

blog  Bug: OSx 10.5.7 - Macbook sleeps once, freezes second time.

Jun 2009

blog  Snippet to load stuff quickly in the Django shell.

May 2009

blog  How to get the iPhone to stop automatic back ups.

May 2009

blog  Python pitfall: Passing Mutable Objects as Default Args.

May 2009

blog  Layer the web with Blerp!.

May 2009

blog  The IBM glass engine.

May 2009

blog  Installing RDFlib on osX.

May 2009

blog  SoundManager 2 makes it easier to play sounds using Javascript.

May 2009

blog  Freedom of Press: is that asking too much?.

May 2009

blog  A Sneak Preview of Wolfram Alpha.

May 2009

blog  Offline django docs.

Apr 2009

blog  Spread the word: the Italian circus goes to the EU.

Apr 2009

blog  Opening UIF files on Mac.

Apr 2009

blog  Augmented reality with MIT's \"Sixth Sense\" game-changing wearable tech.

Apr 2009

blog  Academic Earth - hours of free lectures online.

Mar 2009

blog  NetNewsWire - Great RSS reader for mac/iphone!.

Mar 2009

blog  DB visualize : The Universal Database Tool.

Mar 2009

blog  Faceted Browsing: a conceptual map.

Mar 2009

blog  GAE SQL Designer.

Mar 2009

blog  TextMate Basics Tutorial.

Feb 2009

blog  MacPython/Leopard - PythonInfo Wiki.

Feb 2009

blog  Using the OS X Terminal Application.

Feb 2009

blog  Pysmell - Python auto-complete - works with TextMate too!.

Feb 2009

blog  Komodo-Edit :: a nice free python editor!.

Feb 2009

blog  Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware.

Jan 2009

blog  Guitar Rig 3 Demo - Audio Line-In glitch fixed!!.

Jan 2009

blog  Python easy_install - The PEAK Developers' Center.

Jan 2009

blog  How to make a (Mac) screen saver that shows your uptime.

Jan 2009

blog  Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard.

Jan 2009

blog  MusicBox: Mapping and visualizing music collections.

Jan 2009

blog  Python's phenotype.

Jan 2009

blog  Quotation from Gregory Bateson.

Jul 2008

blog  Comparing programming languages.

Apr 2008

blog  The British Wittgenstein Society gets started.

Mar 2008

blog  Social Innovation Camp in London.

Mar 2008

blog  New Book on Knowledge Technologies.

Mar 2008

blog  AJAX in Lisp with JQuery.

Feb 2008

blog  New PhiloSURFical version!.

Feb 2008

blog  Epistemic Logic.

Feb 2008

blog  FlexBuilder and Flare.

Feb 2008

blog  Humanities Computing and web2.0.

Feb 2008

blog  How semantic is the semantic web?.

Jan 2008

blog  Love trippin'.

Nov 2007

blog  Mmm that ruby is hot...

Oct 2007

blog  Subversion on OSX.

Oct 2007

blog  Jamendo: free and quality music online.

Sep 2007

blog  Zotero - is the browser enough to do research?.

Sep 2007

blog  Lisp blog engine.

Sep 2007

blog  DBpedia rocks.

Sep 2007

blog  Where's all the time gone?.

Sep 2007

blog  MAMP - php development made REALLY easy.

Jul 2007

blog  30th International Wittgenstein Symposium.

Jun 2007

blog  What can the analytical engine do? Ask Charles Babbage...

Jun 2007

blog  Conference: SASO 2007 on Self-Organizing systems.

Jun 2007

blog  Discovery: philosophy in the digital Era.

Jun 2007

blog  AquaMacs 1.0.

Jun 2007

blog  Article: 'The Semantic Web: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence Redux'.

Jun 2007

blog  Philosophy On the Air.

Jun 2007

blog  Go get the Milk.

May 2007

blog  Lispdoc - Online Lisp Documentation Search.

May 2007

blog  Impromptu: scheme-based music and video.

May 2007

blog  New macs too new for me.

May 2007

blog  What Lisp to choose, really?.

Apr 2007

blog  Carnap on \"syntax\".

Apr 2007

blog  HyperNietzsche.

Apr 2007

blog  Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project.

Apr 2007

blog  Modeling Representations (take 2).

Mar 2007

blog  Digital Document Quarterly.

Mar 2007

blog  Lyx on the mac.

Mar 2007

blog  Navigating the Eternal Egypt.

Mar 2007

blog  Ecto : multiple blog manager and WYSIWYG editor.

Mar 2007

blog  Internet research ethics: a first journal.

Mar 2007

blog  Ontology of Representations.

Mar 2007

blog  Dear old paper, how could we do without you?.

Mar 2007

blog  NINES : SW faceted browser - by SpecLab.

Feb 2007

blog  JQuery library gets me going.

Feb 2007

blog  Lisp conference in Cambridge.

Feb 2007

blog  Philosophical Search engine.

Feb 2007

blog  Turning the pages of literature.

Jan 2007

blog  Google-map goes down to the humans...

Jan 2007

blog  Hand-controlled Wah.

Jan 2007

blog  The Internet Classics Archive.

Jan 2007

blog  MacFUse - Gmail-gigs on the desktop.

Jan 2007

blog  IChat to MSN - only one IM client please!.

Jan 2007

blog  Visiting the DigiLab.

Jan 2007

blog  Text Encoding Initiative - a historical paper.

Jan 2007

blog  End of OU-broadcasting.

Dec 2006

blog  Fink fhink think.

Dec 2006

blog  Hunchentoot day.

Dec 2006

blog  Lisp and the Web.

Dec 2006

blog  Smultron text editor.

Dec 2006

blog  A Cyberspace Atlas.

Dec 2006

blog  Knowledge Elicitation: playing with cards.

Nov 2006

blog  Pathway: Wiki Semantic Navigator.

Nov 2006

blog  The Nora Project.

Nov 2006

blog  MultimediaN semantic navigator.

Nov 2006

blog  Web 3.0 ?.

Nov 2006

blog  Free learning resources from the OU.

Nov 2006

blog  Morning quote.

Oct 2006

blog  Let's visualize 'em.

Oct 2006

blog  Semantic Wikipedia: some issues.

Oct 2006

blog  Howard Gardner's talk.

Oct 2006

blog  Navigating the Rijksmuseum.

Oct 2006

blog  A Random Walk through the 20th Century.

Jul 2006

blog  Compendium vs Nestor - knowledge organization tools.

Jun 2006

blog  Review: Automatist storyteller systems and the shifting sands of story, by G. Davenport and M. Murtaugh.

Jun 2006

blog  Library 2.0.

Apr 2006

blog  A doctor hidden in your mac.

Mar 2006