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Wednesday, 31 August 2005

Neologism du jour

Podcrastinating - verb - to spend time at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 computer listing to Podcasts, instead of working, as opposed to listening to podcasts on your iPod while doing ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r things like driving, cycling or ironing.



Technorati Tags: podcasting

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Tuesday, 30 August 2005

Earth deja vu

The Messenger probe took a great movie of Earth as it left for Mercury.

The spooky thing for me is that my old friends at Planetary Visions Limited spent a big chunk of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 90s making computer visualisations from satellite data of just this kind of thing - here's a year's worth of weacá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r, so cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 real pictures are curiously familiar.

Technorati Tags: 3D Atlas, earth, Erd Sicht, geo, movie, space

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Sunday, 28 August 2005

Charlie and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands as geek parables

After seeing and enjoying Charlie and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Chocolate Factory, I realised cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 boys hadn't seen Edward Scissorhands, so we watched that togecá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r too.

Seeing cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m consecutively made me realise that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y both are parables of how it is to be a geek in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 world. The way Edward Scissorhands gently satirises Californian suburban life was much clearer now I've been living it for a while. At it's core, though, it is a classic 'geek versus jock' battle over a girl, but cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re is a lot of layered subtext about trying to make sense of unusual abilities in an world with ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r assumptions.

The facá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r of Edward's adoptive family waxes lyrical on Ed going into business on his own "There's nothing like running your own business. I've never done it myself, but from what I gacá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r it's cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 greatest satisfaction a working man can have. So I guess cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 bank's going to be your next step, huh?"
His loan is of course denied through blank incomprehension, and he is led into crime.

Charlie and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Chocolate Factory, by contrast, has Depp as a post-dotcom bubble geek, with enough money to indulge his rococo taste in factory design and furnishings. It also has a darker subtext, with Wonka's paranoia about his secret formulae being stolen, and his mass onshoring by replacing cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 local workforce with imported Oompa-Loompa's who literally work for beans.

In both films a good, ordinary family is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 path to redemption, but Edward ends up estranged and alone, making beautiful sculptures no-one sees; Wonka, by contrast, brings Charlie's family into his own hermetic world. I'm not sure if eicá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365se is a moral ending, though.
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Thursday, 25 August 2005

Bar camp Video

Scott Beale is hosting Dorrian Porter's impressionistic video of Bar Camp, which I helped compress.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2005

Memetic targetting

Arnold Kling tries to apply Long Tail thinking to politics - I think cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re is something to this, but it goes back to coalition building. In order to gain support for a cause we need to be able to craft arguments for it that appeal to different political worldviews.

For example, here's cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 argument against copyright term extension reframed for different political views:
Liberal collectivist
The shared culture of society should belong to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 people togecá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r, not to faceless corporations.

Libertarian
Our ability to express ourselves freely should not be constrained by a state-granted monopoly.

Liberal Economist
As non-rivalrous goods with a vanishingly small marginal cost of reproduction, cultural goods reach maximum utility by being freely replicable.

Conservative
Creating property rights in goods that can be duplicated at will is inflationary, and undermines cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 value of real physical property that is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 bedrock of a stable society.

Each of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365se is a facet of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 issue, and a defensible position, but if you have a mismatch between cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 argument and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 political frame of your audience, you will be met with incomprehension or hostility, and won't win for your cause.

Updated: Doc Searls and Larry Lessig debated this very issue right after cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Eldred case. Doc's thoughts, Larry's response.

In answer to Doc's comment about 'Commons' putting off cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 libertarians and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 right, I'd like to suggest 'Digital Commonwealth' as a more neutral political term.



Technorati Tags: creative commons, digital rights, long tail, meme, politics, Digital Commonwealth

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Foo, Bar and Dormice

This weekend's Foo camp and Bar camp set me thinking about how important physical proximity is. One of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 tenets of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Open Source movement was that in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Internet age, physical co-presence is no longer needed - your operating system can be run from Finland, your VoIP service from Luxembourg, and both can draw on global collaborators.

Perhaps it was this idea of decentralisation that got Tim O'Reilly to put his publishing company in Sebastopol in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 first place - and certainly cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y do a great job of publishing books by scattered authors.

However, if you're going to visit O'Reilly cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re, you need to make at least a day of it — from my house in San Jose I can get to Boston by air in about cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 same time it takes me to drive to Sebastopol — so Tim making a virtue from a necessity, and organising a camp cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re was a brilliant move. One of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 strengths of Foo is that it brings in people from furcá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r afield than cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Bay Area.

Conversely, being based here means that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re are lots of events going on, and Bar was an example of what that clustering can do.


Which brings me back to Markoff's What cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Dormouse Said, whose cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365sis is that it was cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 combination of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 chip companies, Stanford, and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 SF counterculture that built cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 computing world we live in now. They needed cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 physical proximity cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n, and going to PARC to hear from Doug Englebart and Larry Tesler about those days was fascinating.

And yet, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 collaboration tools cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y dreamed of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n are now coming to fruition, in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 way that I can contact friends in both camps, and ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365rs worldwide from my computer or sidekick.
I managed to get a live broadcast up from Bar camp so far-flung friends could watch and react via IRC, but attempts to get video out of Foo camp were stymied by cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir NAT and router. Global textual collaboration has been here for a while; adding video and audio is still a work in progress.

Technorati Tags: Barcamp, Foocamp, microformat, microformats

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Friday, 12 August 2005

Adam Smith and microformats principles

Lynne Kiesling quotes Adam Smith
The man of system, on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard eicá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 great interests, or to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 different members of a great society with as much ease as cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 hand arranges cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 pieces upon cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 chess-board have no ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r principle of motion besides that which cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 hand impresses upon cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m; but that, in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogecá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r different from that which cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 same direction, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y are opposite or different, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 game will go on miserably, and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 society must be at all times in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 highest degree of disorder.
microformats.org says:

microformats are not:

  • a new language
  • infinitely extensible and open-ended
  • an attempt to get everyone to change cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir behavior and rewrite cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir tools
  • a whole new approach that throws away what already works today
  • a panacea for all taxonomies, ontologies, and ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r such abstractions
  • defining cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 whole world, or even just boiling cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 ocean
  • any of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 above

Smith contrasts:
The man whose public spirit is prompted altogecá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r by humanity and benevolence, will respect cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 established powers and privileges even of individuals [...]
He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 confirmed habits and prejudices of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 people; and will remedy as well as he can, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 inconveniencies which may flow from cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 want of those regulations which cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 right, he will not disdain to ameliorate cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 best that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 people can bear.
microformats.org continues:

cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 microformats principles

  • solve a specific problem
  • start as simple as possible
  • design for humans first, machines second
  • reuse building blocks from widely adopted standards
  • modularity / embeddability
  • enable and encourage decentralized development, content, services

I grant you, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 microformats prose is terse in comparison, but I see cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 commonality between cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 two. Do read Lynne's post in full, and thank you Megan for pointing it out.
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Kevin Marks works on IndieWeb and open web tech. From 2011 to 2013 he was VP of Open Cloud Standards at Salesforce. From 2009 to 2010 he was VP of Web Services at BT. From 2007 to 2009, he worked at Google on OpenSocial. From 2003 to 2007 he was Principal Engineer at Technorati responsible for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 spiders that make sense of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 web and track millions of blogs daily. He has been inventing and innovating for over 25 years in emerging technologies where people, media and computers meet. Before joining Technorati, Kevin spent 5 years in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 QuickTime Engineering team at Apple, building video capture and live streaming into OS X. He was a founder of The Multimedia Corporation in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 UK, where he served as Production Manager and Executive Producer, shipping million-selling products and winning International awards. He has a Masters degree in Physics from Cambridge University and is a BBC-qualified Video Engineer. One of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 driving forces behind microformats.org, he regularly speaks at conferences and symposia on emergent net technologies and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir cultural impact.
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