I wasn’t able to make it to the Open Library Developers Meeting 2008 (Open Library) because I was in Los Angeles but I look forward to catching up on what happened that day.  I’m excited to see how far the OpenLibrary project will get in terms of making data about books freely available to the […]
Tagged openlibraryMashupAwards – best mashups on the web is a good list of mashups. As I learn Django, a Python web programming framework, I’m starting to think about alternative frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails and Symfony (for PHP5). Is Symfony something to recommend to my students?
Tagged mashup symfony DjangoIn several weeks, I’ll be giving a talk to campus IT staff. I’ve long wanted to talk up the value of such services as Amazon EC2 and S3. Whenever I bring them up, I have tended to talk in the abstract of all the possibilities. I just came across a nice example in a blog […]
Tagged NYTimes AmazonEC2 AmazonS3It’ll be fun to work through Visualizing Data — after I get through reading Programming Collective Intelligence . But instead of just reading books, I need to have some specific problems in mind — which I do. More soon on what those problems are.
Tagged booksWhen I saw Copycat Articles Seem Rife in Science Journals, a Digital Sleuth Finds – Chronicle.com, I was curious about the technology behind the findings. How did the researchers figure out the level of duplication in the medical literature? One aspect was the use of eTBlast. (To learn more, I can follow up by reading […]
I look forward to the starting up of the Buckland/Larson/Lynch seminar next week. I’m pleased to see the word “mash-up” used in an article about a Berkeley website: 01.16.2008 – New life for the New Deal: “I realized I couldn’t do it myself,” Brechin says. “It had to be people all over California working collaboratively,” […]
Commercial Gigapan is a fancy add-on to a digital camera that allows take a series of photos that can be stitched into a high-resolution panorama. I applied to be part of the beta program, bu haven’t heard yet whether I’ve been accepted into it. Will I have the privilege of paying $279 for a prototype? […]
Experimenting with picnik Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee Picnik, the web-based photo editor, encourages me to experiment with my Flickr photos by its tight integration with Flickr. I can view my Flickr photos, edit any given one, and then send it back to Flickr — all within Picnik. (Compare this photo to the original.)
I’m giving a talk on Wednesday at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh: SWeb Mashups, Recombinatory Data and the Academy: Yee will examine how, with relatively little effort, individuals are recombining digital content from the Web to create sophisticated mashups. The mashups often provide entirely new understandings of that content. This talk will […]
As I write my book, I find the article ONLamp.com: Why Do People Write Free Documentation? Results of a Survey quite interesting. The book isn’t exactly “free documentation” although I’m putting my book online for free downloading. Besides reading a book, I find it helpful to hear the author talk about his or her book. […]