Posts from — August 2003

Go, Nads!. Interesting list of college athletic teams' nicknames. [More inside.] [MetaFilter]

But there are no other Hokies, the Virginia Tech Mascot.

Microsoft and Social Cyberspaces.

As this press release reveals, Microsoft is active in researching the nature of trust and identity in virtual community. It's research sociologist Marc Smith “leads the Community Technologies group, which is developing tools that can help people make more informed decisions on which community members they can trust, instead of acting on blind faith. ”

Thanks, Paul!

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Marc's group does interesting work. He has several books out that inform this topic already, well worth digging out.

XML, metaphorically speaking. Bear with me on this post, everyone. It's on a technical subject, but I think the non-techies will be interested too. Give it a read, anyway, and I promise not to get techie again for a day or two. A… [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precendent]

This is an interesting position, programming or literary space. Might I add, an analytic space, which may not be literary, is similar to programming, but is makes sense of both. Analytic spaces are human readable, but rely intrinsically on definitions, namespaces. This is because they are defining relationships between the elements based on namespaces. Namespaces can thus become definitional spaces which provide for the context of the literary analysis.

Hacker hit parade goes live. A list of the top security problems on the internet which is updated regularly has been published. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

is your server, computer, network secure?

I'm joining the 10% club: according to its Web site “RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.” So, quick, get me a list of the 10% and I will spend every dime of the $2000 I once spent on RIAA and MPAA member products with the ten-percenters… I'm sure not buying anything from these guys, ever… [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley]

this to me seems to be a perfect strategy, boycotts work, they always have.

Trackback in Radio.

Finally. Trackback in Radio. One more brick to get better connections. [Mathemagenic]

well i turned on trackback, lets see how well it works….

engineer vs. scientist. I was speaking with a friend tonite about the structure of communities. During this conversation, he told me that i… [zephoria]

this is what is usually called a false dichotomization. the real structure is that there is not only a spectrum between engineer and scientist, but that it operates on many levels across many forms of knowledge. sometimes people abstract to this level to make an explanatory point though… but we have to be careful in doing that, because many people tend to believe this dichotomy.

Finally!. Introvertster is an online anti-social non-networking community that prevents people from ever bothering you while you're online … Create your own barrier to protect yourself against interaction with people. It's easy and fun!

Can I use Introvertster for dating?

That's a really stupid question. Introvertster is not for you. Go away.

(via plasticbag) [Purse Lip Square Jaw]

well its about time… i mean how did they get by, sicne they were obviously feeling excluded by the other network milieus?

Tinderbox 2.0. The major new Tinderbox release is out at last. Tinderbox 2 is even faster than before, has lots of new features for better export and smarter agents, and talks to lots of weblog tools. [Mark Bernstein]

tinderbox works great for me, i just wish more of my osx services worked with it. it would be complete if i could run my own spell check, etc.

Invade Mali now. I wasn’t going to post this fill-in-the-country geography test for North Africa & the Middle East, for fear of insulting… [Blog de Halavais]

Well, i played this at around 7:30am and didn't do as well as I thought I would. I don't even think that I own a map that identifies West Sahara as a country…. In any case, I did alright, in the former U.S.S.R. but messed up on the islands and the south saudi penninsula…