November 24th, 2002
In the queue
Reactive Interfaces
Facetted Classification
Bottoms Up:
Designing complex, adaptive systems, from the co-author of the
Polar Bear
book.
-
On: Why Yahoo inspired taxonomy build is a bad idea, that generates unusable
results.
- Says: Facetted classification is about changing questions. In taxonomy based
systems the central question is “where do I put this?” but
in facetted (bottom up) approch you ask “how do I describe this?”.
- Facetted classification can also be thought of as a database where ” facets are fields, [and] controlled vocabularies are acceptable values.”
See also
November 21st, 2002
diveintomark
Mark is back from his near month long hiatus, and on fire.
newdoor
- is an aggregator that learns using seed data from Blogging Ecosystem. Usable
agents, and the promise of webservices in one fell swoop.
He is also talking about how hard it is
being perfect,
and the
traps
of XHTML 1.1.
Shirky
Over at the boingboing guest blog, Clay Shirky has also been on fire.
Continueing the theme of group forming found in new door, Shirky hilights
seminal documents in 3 online communities (LambdaMOO, Slashdot, and Wikipedia), in his
post
Morning constitutional(scroll down), links to work on developing
a social rhetoric, and links to the oldie, but still relevant, The
Tyranny of Structurelessness.
Online Organizing Sucks
I’ve got
lots of links, ideas, and rants about group forming, online organizing, and managing discussions all bubbling inside my head right now. No time to blog them. Hopefully soon.
November 1st, 2002
Scams as class warfare?
Teresa: “
scams take the forms they do because they’re parodies–no, a better
way to put it: they’re cargo-cult effigies–of the deals the ruling class
cut for themselves.“, on how and why scams work.
Perl behind the curtain
Abhijit:
sub perlhash { $hash = 0; foreach (split //, shift) { $hash = $hash*33 + ord($_); return $hash; }, on how and why Perl hashes work.
No more just taking them for granted. The only time I’ve ever felt insecure about using Perl was a when a C programming friend was riffing on how he could never be happy with mass produced hashes, and insisted on rolling his own.
We are everywhere
debian-devel:
Is Debian Anarchist? (via
anarchogeek)
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