Seen on the web
Sometimes a new technology comes along and completely changes the way you go about doing a set of things. del.icio.us has done that with information research for me. At first, I thought it was just stupid. I mean, it’s just a glorified online bookmark system. Who cares, really? But as I started using it I became addicted. Bookmarks in browsers just don’t work. It is not just that its a web app, it’s the folksonomy aspect of it that really puts it over the top.
If you, like me, is sick and tired of sites that lure innocent googlers into registering on their site just to view content that is should be freely available. The worst of those sites is probably experts exchange with their stupid blurring technique. Luckily I’m not the only one sick and tired of this. The following greasemonkey script silently removes all links to experts-exchange.com from google results.
I was told about the openstreetmap project a little while ago and finally had some time to check it out today. It is indeed a very interesting project. I found out that there are no roads for Nørresundby, so today I decided that I would help make that happen. A little walk with my trusty old n800 and the external GPS bluetooth dongle and I now have uploaded the GPS points of my trip to the site. I used maemo mapper to gather the data points. It’s quite nice to be able to look at the route you walked later by just reimporting the data into maemo mapper. Fresh air, a chance to get to know your neighbourhood a little better and helping making important information free to the world is not a bad combo for a wednesday night 🙂
I’ve been very happy enjoying these two pieces of distractions the last week. So happy I’ll write a small blog entry about it instead of just saving it to delicious 🙂
– Paul Graham on Disconnected Distraction
I’m very please to announce that we, at iola, have launched a new site for digital artists today. For the 31 days there’s a competition where you can win lots of nice stuff including an exhibition at the center of Copenhagen. The site is coded in Python (Django) and uses varnish for caching.
Found this extremely interesting blog post today dealing with the need for a wikipedia like approach to structured data. It hits the problem quite nicely and has a ton of comments with interesting links and discussion. I talked about the problem a little over a year ago. Time to take the power back?
Just finished watching the probably best talk of FOWA again. Watch this brilliant talk, it’s both insightful and funny as hell.
