IBM values the text analytics market to $10 billion in five years. According to Bob Carlson the enterprise text analytics market is growing from $400 million today to $10 billion in five years (excluding search). Bob Carlson is a VP and the program director for the IBM WebFountain initiative that we have… [unstruct.org - Unstructured Information Management]

W$I$. Veni Markovski: Tomorrow I will go to the UN and will send a strong message to the organizers that this is supposed to be the WSIS, not the W$I$.” [Lextext]

We are everywhere: The irresistible rise of global anticapitalism

<This new book> tells the tale of what is commonly known as “the anti-globalization movement.”

Except that most Westerners get that term wrong. The antiglobalizers aren't just a handful of white American union members, treehuggers and black-clad radicals.

Most of the movement is action by people worldwide, facing life or death stakes: peasants fighting water privatization in Bolivia; farmers fighting biopiracy in India; rebel Zapatistas fighting for autonomy in Mexico; the landless poor hijacking farmland in Brazil; AIDS activists fighting pharmaceutical giants in South Africa.

This book is about the whole globalization movement, Latin American campesinos, crusty punks from Oregon, environmentalists in Niger, students in Mexico city, pie-throwers in San Francisco, squatters in Ontario, anarchists in Italy, refugees in Australia, factory workers in Poland, landless farmers in Thailand. The list goes on.

[Politics in the Zeros]

The fastest way to
get published: All machine needs is a manuscript.
Churns out books while you wait. By Ho Anderson, Toronto Star.

Prospective authors provide an InstaBook operator with a disk
containing their manuscript; then the disk is fed into a machine and a
fully bound and printed book pops out six minutes later. For $150 the
writer gets one printed proof and 10 copies of the book. Says Di
Marcantonio, “Anything you can conceive of putting into book form,
InstaBook can handle it.” Florida-based Victor Celorio, a former aspiring
writer, invented InstaBook technology, and according to the InstaBook Web
site, there are locations in the U.S., Italy and Mexico as well.

http://www.instabook.ca/ http://www.instabook.net/ [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

The Mushroom House. The Mushroom House in Whistler, Canada, is the result of 22 years of work by artist/creator Zube. “The interior design is based on the anatomy of a tree. All aspects of the dŽcor reflect this motif, from the womblike hues of the Jacuzzi room in the 'roots' to the vivid leaf greens on the walls in the 'canopy'.” [Via Boing Boing.] [MetaFilter]

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this is cool, i want one.

User Interface Hierarchies.

Russell Beattie writes:

I'm looking at user interfaces more recently. Online, on my desktop and on my gadgets and I'm taken aback by their complexity. But I've had an epiphany about their underlying structure that I wanted to try to express here.

Is there a reason for the icons and the buttons and the menus and the tabs and the list boxes and all the other GUI crap that we have to deal with both on a computer and increasingly on our mobile devices as well? I honestly don't know. I personally think less is more when it comes to user interface design.

Maybe it's just me, but I think in hierarchies and outlines. Even if I don't always use my outliner for everything, I still organize my documents like that, and the text within those documents are usually indented as well.

What's my point? That we need to do like Apple did with the iPod and review how our UIs work. We need less widgets, not more. We need more than simplicity, we need consistency. And since *all* data is a hierarchy, using that as a base for all UI elements would be a good thing. Teach a newbie: “This is how a hierarchy works. Now, anytime you need to find or edit information – whether it's the MP3 you want to play or the settings on your phone, now you'll know how.”

It doesn't make sense any more. Now that we're all comfortable with the idea of computers and the mouse, we don't need “buttons” and “gauges” and “files” and “tabs” and all that crap that are analogies to real things. They're not real things – it's just data.

[E M E R G I C . o r g]

Useful. Via the chaotic etc, a description of what Panther's (OS X 10.3) text services are. This is the text handling stuff that is built in. TrŽs kewl…. [Vlog 2.1]

Geek Social Fallacies.

Michael Suileabhain-Wilson identifies Five Geek Social Fallacies that are pertinent to smart mobs and virtual communities, as well as meatspace social circles. In fact, I wouldn't limit the scope of his argument to geeks. Nice writing, and thought-provoking.

[Smart Mobs] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

I am Tesla. Which historical madman were you? Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey. Precisely. Tesla and… [Blog de Halavais]

Project Gutenberg hits 10k, events in San Francisco.

In celebration of Project Gutenberg's 10,000th book release, founder Michael Hart and CEO Greg Newby are planning a series of events to commemorate the milestone. Starting tomorrow with a lecture at the Golden Gate Club and finishing up this week with an appearance on TechTV.

Along with the annoucement they're offering all 10,000 books as a downloadable DVD disc image, ready for burning.

[Creative Commons: weblog]