One paragraph from Congress Jumps on the Web 2.0 Bandwagon | Radical Tech | Fast Company caught my eye: Latta agrees and adds “Real time communication applications, like Twitter and Facebook, provide Members of Congress an ability to receive feedback from their constituents even as the debate is taking place on the floor of the […]
Tagged government, twitter, Web 2.0Barack Obama, as a presidential candidate, pledged that his administration would “put government data online in universally accessible formats”.   I learned about this campaign promise from the post techPresident – Sell Obama stimulus and create new transparency era by democratizing data by W. David Stephenson, who is the co-author of an upcoming O’Reilly book Democratizing […]
Tagged Obama, transparent government, video, VTagIt!One of my favorite Firefox extensions is an old one that is no longer maintained but which I can still coax into the latest versions of Firefox –Â copyurlplus: The Copy URL+ extension enables you to copy to the clipboard the current document’s address along with additional information such as the document’s title, the current […]
Tagged copyurlplus, extension, Firefox, Nightly Tester ToolsZotz Developer’s Guide – SIMILE has a useful warning to all who work on developing Zotero plugins: Zotz is a Zotero add-on, but it’s written as a regular Firefox extension: the nature of firefox extensions all living in the same address space allows extensions to invoke each other internal methods, which means that Zotz can […]
Tagged plugin, Zotero, ZotzMuch attention has been paid to the Amazon Kindle, an electronic device to read books that can be purchased and downloaded from amazon.com. But before there was the Kindle, Amazon enabled certain books to be read online — through Amazon Upgrade. I ordered Getting Started in Consulting and wish more of Amazon’s selection were available […]
Tagged online booksToday’s ”NY Times” carries a nice introduction to “citizen science” — A New Kind of Big Science: There is another way to extend our scientific reach, and I believe it can also restore some of what is lost in the process of centralization. It has been called Citizen Science, and it involves the enlistment of […]
Tagged citizen science, scienceAs a long time owner and user of Palm products (Palm V, Treo 300, Treo 600, Treo 700p), I’ve been hoping that Palm would release a cutting-edge product that would still enable me to keep synching my contacts with Ecco Pro.  After following the announcement of the Palm Pre has convinced me to hold off […]
Tagged Palm, TreoThis morning I was studying how Zotero performs synchronization among libraries distributed in different Firefox profiles via Zotero sync server. Specifically, I printed out /extension/tags/1.5-sync3.5/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/sync.js to decipher some off its workings. My goal wasn’t to understand all the code, which gets pretty complicated, because of the complexities of things like conflict resolution. Rather, my focus […]
Tagged sychronization, ZoteroOne thing that I didn’t know about Zotero was the range of creator types in Zotero. Here’s a Chickenfoot script that you can run to list them: // to explore the range of creatorTypes // to do: figure out how to get localized string for different creator types var Zotero = chromeWindow.Zotero; var creatorTypes = […]
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