I had an interesting discussion with my student Katrina Panovich today. I’m intrigued by the way people use twitter for “ambient awareness”—watching what goes by, but not worrying about what they miss. I find this paradoxical—if you don’t care about missing stuff, why watch at all? Especially given that each arriving tweet provides some degree [...]
While I prefer Windows XP [1] for my main work machine–that is, my laptop–nothing beats Linux when you need good, plain command-line access to every conceivable feature of a computer. For the last three years I’ve been keeping a Linux box [2] running 24/7 in a closet in my family’s house in Norway (I live [...]
Our online lives are increasingly spent staring at advertisements and commercials. Understandably so, we’re bombarded in hopes that we’ll click something, and someone, somewhere is making money off of our time this way. Traditional models of online advertising are pay-per-impression (per view on websites), pay-per-click (for clicking through), or pay-per-action (where users actually act on [...]
I’m trying a new venue to get early feedback for UI design…: this blog.
I’ve been trying to reproduce an effect similar to Eclipse for web-apps, where Views can be dragged across different viewports. Using jquery UI, and after a few lines of javascript, I get the following:
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Exhibit and Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) definetly make a good couple, since they complement each other quite well. While Exhibit is really good at visualizing structured data, SMWs naturally contain lots of this data. Hence, the interaction of Exhibit and SMW covers the entire value chain from creating to presenting structured content.
In an upcoming series of [...]
In 1981, Elaine Rich predicted in a paper called “Users are individuals” [1] that as digital information tools became increasingly capable, they would empower people to assume more tasks and responsibilities. This tendency would, in turn, drive a demand for better tools — tools that let people complete their tasks more easily, efficiently and [...]
http://jslint.com
At runtime, firebug and Javascript Debugger will catch Javascript errors you need to worry about. But what it you’ve made a syntax error, and that Firebug completely ignores your js file… If you want to avoid hitting Ctrl-z until you find where you made the mistake, or worse, re-read line-by-line your 2000-lines-of-code script, here’s the [...]
Sorry for the stale news if anyone but me knew about this already, but I just discovered how easy it is to have create a temporary hostname, and this is really cool:
Suppose that you’re about to carry out an web-based experiment (called tutor, for instance), and that you don’t want to setup a whole new [...]
Take a look at :
http://www.google.com/views?q=olympics+view%3Amap&esrch=RefinementBarTopViewTabs. They have used a graphical framework that reminds me of exhibit. Interesting that they haven’t explored faceted browsing (for now, still a single search box). On the other hand, within a view you can adjust the lens (i.e: show only dates). Would that be a cool feature to add to [...]
This is another quick tutorial for those wanting to serialize data to RDF. Languages like OWL provide heavyweight description logic modeling capabilities for RDF, but most people find that lightweight RDFs modeling is the most appropriate.
I’ll cover three things in this posts: labels, classes, properties. This post assumes the following three namespaces:
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
@prefix rdfs: [...]