Feedster is introducing a Tag This widget that blog authors can include in their posts for readers to anonymously tag posts. A volunteer manual way of building a database. After you enter a tag, you get to see the list of tags for the post, but they don’t link anywhere so the reward for the effort is unfulfilling.
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Found today this nice application that allows me to use my G5 display to work with my powerbook applications. I think it is useful mostly for writing things on a bigger screen when you are in the range of a mac with a bigger screen.
One of the improvements in iChatAV 3.0 (shipped with Tiger) over iChat AV 2.0 (shipped with Panther) is its support for Jabber, which allows you to indirectly communicate with other
IM services like MSN and Yahoo. There’s a nice tutorial on how to get your iChat to talk to MSN at All Forces. I followed the instructions on the All Forces site to set up my iChat to communicate with
Yahoo. The trick is to locate a public Jabber server that supports Yahoo. Although there are plenty to choose from here, not all public Jabber servers that support Yahoo work well with iChat. Several
allowed me to send messages to Yahoo from iChat, but not to iChat from Yahoo. I was about ready to give up until I tried jabber.org.uk. Now I can use iChat for both AIM and Yahoo instant messaging.
iChat has better integration with other Mac OS X apps. For example, when you’re logged into both AIM and Jabber–>Yahoo in iChat, the little green dot appears next to emails from online buddies in Mail.app. This has always worked with AIM and .Mac IM users, but now thanks to Jabber support in iChat, it also works with Yahoo buddies.
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Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience.
Aristotle, De Interpretatione
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Google ridefinder makes visual the search for a taxi. It shows in real time the positions of these transports using google maps. Eventually logging the information for a week shows the usage of the streets. This is of interest for having a glimpse on the usage of the urban space.
I could not resist, therefore I am reposting exactly the text of this post. It is so much related to my stuff that is almost embarassing that I did not came out first with this. Looking forward to read the papers.
^ Lefebvre, Castells, Dupuy & Heeling
Jeroen van Schaick: Shift towards networks: integrating social and physical subsystems of the city through stratified models (PDF 5 pages)
See also: Paul Dourish: Meaning and Practice in Encounters with Urban Space (PDF – 3 pages)
Rachnaa made great progress on the ShoutSpace interface. After a long discussion we decided to go for floating panels instead of putting everything in the same frame. I think this solution is a bit more pleasant to work with. Additionally, we can monitor weather an user prefer the map view or the threads listing to scroll and navigate the content. Next step will be the definition of the proper event codes. To be discussed…
Lately I have been working on this schema of the algorithm that should provide detection for the zones of the map. A zone should correspond to a place, which was described in the messages left by the users and is defined as the natural playground of interaction in the city space.
Still have to figure out what engine use to solve physical proximity of messages, Social Network Analysis, and the semantic analysis of the messages content.
Proprio non riesco a rassegnarmi a questo stato di cose: che in Italia l’astensione sia equiparata al dissenso. In realta’ si tratta di due concetti diversi che portano a due comportamenti opposti. Chi si astiene puo’: fregarsene, essere pigro, essere malato, essere scontento, etc.
Chi vota NO, ha invece la specifica intenzione di andare contro il progetto di cambiamento di legge.
Come possiamo comparare le due cose?? Perche’ dare questo doppio vantaggio al NO?
La risposta che mi e’ sorta spontaneamente e’ legata al fatto che in Italia esiste solo il referendum abbrogativo, e quindi ancora una volta si scoraggia e si limita la partecipazione popolare alla vita politica del paese.
Aggiungo infine che mi addolora vedere uno strumento cosi importante ridotto alla stregua di un ascia: la dicotomizzazione del voto, o tutti SI o tutti NO!!! Non potrebbe darsi che qualcuno voglia potersi esprimere a favore di una modifica e contro un’altra? E’ infatti il mio caso. Ho deciso infatti di votare NO al referendum n. 3, sui diritti del concepito. Nel mio piccolo modo di vedere il feto e’ VITA ed in quanto tale e’ SACRO.
I was recently following this discussion ([1], [2]) on Tag Clouds and the fact that on the long run, tags will converge to a Tag Set. I think the same can be verified for annotations to a shared map that are used to describe a place. In the same way, these descriptors wont follow a power law but they will converge to a stable set. So, I tried to formulate a running hypothesis:
The descriptors of the places of the map do not follow a power law, on the contrary they tend to converge to a stable set.
Recent debates on letting people tag their content over the internet argued that the tag sets used by people do not follow power laws. Here I make the hypothesis that sharing content on the map of the city is not different from that …
