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Comment on The civic dashboard by De-referencing climate claims « Semantic Werks

De-referencing climate claims « Semantic Werks — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:57:25 +0000

[...] have been at the forefront for a long period of time. See, for example, his work tracking down the sources for crime statistics in his hometown. Too often the tidy figure quoted in a published study is the [...]

Comment on Mythbusting the ‘Google generation’ report by échange de lien

échange de lien — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:55:05 +0000

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Comment on Darwin’s rhetorical strategy by Dante 515 Solved

Dante 515 Solved — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:32:26 +0000

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Comment on Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 2: Portable tags by Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 3: Taxonomy and folksonomy « Jon Udell

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:55:09 +0000

[...] we saw in Portable tags, some iCalendar feeds use the CATEGORIES property of the iCalendar format to express per-event [...]

Comment on Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 1: General and specific by Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 3: Taxonomy and folksonomy « Jon Udell

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:55:06 +0000

[...] the dynamics in play here, we can see the general and specific principle at work. For a general tag like university there are city-specific instantiations: bu and [...]

Comment on Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 1: General and specific by Harmonic Design

Harmonic Design — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:58:36 +0000

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Comment on Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 1: General and specific by Clif

Clif — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:34:12 +0000

Thanks for posting this Jon. Feeding a sub-hub from tagged content of a main hub helps clarify some of the principles you have discussed around tagging and categorization. I can see how this could be expanded to create some neat niche/specialty hubs. I may send some further questions on this concept your way soon.

Comment on Harry Tuttle’s busy month by Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 2: Portable tags « Jon Udell

Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 2: Portable tags « Jon Udell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:17:45 +0000

[...] See also Harry Tuttle’s busy month and The art of organizing search results.

Comment on Two interpretations of US health care cost vs. life expectancy by wrist injuries

wrist injuries — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:25:32 +0000

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Comment on 3D printing and human skill by Your Mobile Site

Your Mobile Site — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:21:25 +0000

Why would it matter whether that wrench was scanned automatically or not?

The idea is that 3d printers hit consumer homes so the consumer can download models.

No scanning required in the first place.

Comment on Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 1: General and specific by Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:47:16 +0000

The other thing is that it provides this both in web view and rss

Yes, that’s another idea I picked up from Delicious. In http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/seattleopencalendar/html?view=seattleu,sports you can replace /html with /xml, /json, /rss, or /ics.

One particularly good use of the /rss flavor is shown on my blog’s homepage. If you scroll down to the bottom right you’ll see a widget called Upcoming music in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. It’s the RSS view of music events in the MonadnockNH regional hub. I run my blog on wordpress.com partly to embrace its constraints and understand how things can work from the POV of somebody who can’t, or doesn’t want to, deploy their own wordpress instance. Those constraints forbid IFRAME or JSONP strategies, but you can make an RSS widget.

A nice example of the /ics flavor is seen at http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/MonadnockArtsAlive/html. If you check its list of feeds (http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/MonadnockArtsAlive/stats) you’ll see that one is http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/elmcity/ics?view=music. In other words, the MonadnockArtsAlive hub, which is a compendium of arts and culture calendars in our region, is reusing the aggregated music feed I’m producing at http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/MonadnockNH/html?view=music (and echoing on my blog via its RSS flavor).

This idea of composing hubs from sets of inbound feeds, some of which can be the output of other hubs, is a topic for a future installment.

Comment on Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 1: General and specific by Alan Levine (@cogdog)

Alan Levine (@cogdog) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:11:25 +0000

I could not agree more Jon, about the value and lack of awareness of a multi-leveled tag structure. And I still am holding out some hope for delicious.

The other thing is that it provides this both in web view and rss. I have tried a similar tagging strategy for my photos in flickr, but I cannot join tags, I can do a url for “dog”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/dog

and

“dalmatian”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/dalmatian

but not both.

And while I can combine them in search, the results do not provide me an RSS feed.

And then I ended up wrestling with Pipes, and that leaves me wondering if Yahoo will flush that useful tool as well.

Tag thinking is still an arcane art.

Comment on Can elmcity and Delicious continue their partnership? by Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 1: General and specific « Jon Udell

Tagging mechanisms and strategies part 1: General and specific « Jon Udell — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:07:50 +0000

[...] in May I asked: Can elmcity and Delicious continue their partnership? The answer turned out to be no. That’s partly because the new Delicious broke some [...]

Comment on Transmission of tacit knowledge: teaching what we don’t know that we know by Software Carpentry » Watch Me: Volunteers Wanted

Software Carpentry » Watch Me: Volunteers Wanted — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:13:19 +0000

[...] in 2007, Jon Udell observed that screencasts facilitate accidental knowledge transfer in a way that more traditional media don’t. As I said yesterday, we’d therefore like to [...]

Comment on A geek anti-manifesto by Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:47:41 +0000

:-)