'For Techies' Category
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Killing Creativity
October 24, 2005Creating Passionate Users: The Concept Carification effect by Kathy Sierra on October 21, 2005. Kathy Sierra is one of the strongest advocates for users of anyone I know. Her “Head First” books from O’Reilly are best sellers because she knows how to write and create books that connect to people. Although her website Creating Passionate [...]
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Screenscraping the Senate for the semantic web
September 3, 2004XML.com: Screenscraping the Senate This is interesting. Paul Ford, as a proof of concept of the semantic web, has scraped the US Senate website for HTML, combined it with a CVS list of Senators, and generated the data in RDF. “After years of reading and writing about the Semantic Web, I still can’t tell you [...]
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Hackers and Painters
May 20, 2004oreilly.com — Online Catalog: Hackers & Painters. A new book from O’Reilly the best technical publisher in the world. Hackers & Painters Big Ideas from the Computer Age, By Paul Graham, May 2004. ISBN: 0-596-00662-4 271 pages, $22.95 US, $33.95 CA, £15.95 UK. Written in clear, narrative style, Hackers & Painters examines issues such as [...]
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Pixel−counting can un−redact government docs
May 10, 2004John Markoff, NY Times, May 10: European researchers at a security conference in Switzerland last week demonstrated computer-based techniques that can identify blacked-out words and phrases in confidential documents. The researchers showed their software at the conference, the Eurocrypt, by analyzing a presidential briefing memorandum released in April to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 [...]
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PTO’s open-source stance
September 8, 2003Library Groups Urge Patent & Trademark Office To Rethink ‘Open Source’ Stance [password/proxy server required if off-campus]. Seems that the PTO doesn’t understand the open-source issue very well. “The difference is not whether we rely on copyright but for what purpose,” Mogelin said. Proprietary software uses copyright to seek profits, he said, but “we use [...]