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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trendalyzer">via</a></p>
<blockquote>Stories take you from a familiar scene to somewhere new. They relate change over time; they deliver ideas and supporting arguments; they attempt to convince you, to advance your thinking. Stories frame facts and organize information to bring you, step by step, to a conclusion the storyteller intended you to reach all along. It doesn't have to be a particular conclusion; the outcome can be a new way of seeing problems and deciding how to act.</blockquote>
Archive for April, 2009
links for 2009-04-29
April 30, 2009links for 2009-04-27
April 28, 2009-
<ul>
<li><a href="http://mshook.googlepages.com/d4m.htm?/mshook/26+april+2009+h">Test of Google Maps embedded in d4m.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mshook.googlepages.com/d4m.htm?/mshook/26+april+2009+g">Test of Google Notebook in a Google Gadget in d4m.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mshook.googlepages.com/d4m.htm?/mshook/26+april+2009+f">Test Google Gadget Line Graph in d4m.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mshook.googlepages.com/d4m.htm?/mshook/26+april+2009+e">Test del.icio.us tag cloud gadget in d4m</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mshook.googlepages.com/d4m.htm?/mshook/26+april+2009+c">Test Goolge Calendar Gadget in d4m.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mshook.googlepages.com/d4m.htm?/mshook/26+april+2009+c">Test Twitter Gadget</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mshook.googlepages.com/d4m.htm?/mshook/26+april+2009+b">Test of a Google Search Gadget in d4m.htm</a></li>
</ul>
links for 2009-04-26
April 27, 2009-
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<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117899612191388477265.0000011268e05d70e9881&ll=32.800543,-97.348292&spn=0.155312,0.060652&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117899612191388477265.0000011268e05d70e9881&ll=32.800543,-97.348292&spn=0.155312,0.060652&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">FTW RR</a> in a larger map</small>
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<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/line-chart.xml%3Fup__table_query_url%3Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fspreadsheets.google.com%25252Fa%25252Fgoogle.com%25252Ftq%25253Fkey%25253Dpv90wE7Cj49xs2eU%25252DZwlyKg%252526range%25253DA2%25253AD7%252526gid%25253D1%26up_title%3DGadget%2520User%2520N&up__table_query_url=http%3A%2F%2Fspreadsheets.google.com%2Fpub%3Fkey%3DrpnnR_aidn0qVKPibR_mhzg&up_title=Fruits%20%26%20Vegetables&up_chartTitle=Fruits%20%26%20Vegetables&up_labelx=&up_labely=&up_legend=0&up_smoothline=0&up_showpoints=1&up_min=&up_max=&up__table_query_refresh_interval=300&synd=open&w=320&h=200&title=Test+Chart&lang=all&country=ALL&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js"></script>
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<p><a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&q=google+engineering">Gadgets from Google Engineering</a></p> -
<p>This is a test</p>
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://games.fungadgets.org/bike/stuntdirtbike.xml&synd=open&w=320&h=340&title=Stunt+Dirt+Bike&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js"></script>
<p>After the test</p>
links for 2009-04-25
April 26, 2009-
<p><a href="http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/info?call=W217BK&service=FX">W217BK-FM 91.3 MHz Southwest Harbor, Maine</a> interferes with <a href="http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?sr=Y&s=C&call=WMEH&x=14&y=4">WMEH Bangor 90.9 MHz Bangor</a> in Southwest Harbor.
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<pre>
W217BK-FM:
"Good Words Good Music" Parent Website:
Station Status Licensed Class D FM Translator
Parent Station KAWZ-FM
Area of Coverage View Coverage Map
Effective Radiated Power 38 Watts
Height above Ground Level 20 meters (66 feet)
Height above Sea Level 81 meters (266 feet)
Antenna Pattern Non-Directional
Transmitter Location 44° 16' 48" N, 68° 20' 04" W
License Granted October 21 2008
License Expires April 01 2014
Last FCC Update October 22 2008
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Reflections: NO NAME, NO NUMBER: The New Yorker
"Tells about the torture he experienced and how he survived by behaving passively; tells about his thoughts, including consideration of suicide. He was held in three cladestine sites and two legal prisons. The Jewish question dominated every interrogation during his imprisonment. There was a desire on the part of his captors to eradicate Jews wholesale. Tells about groups other than Jews who were persecuted. Most of those
killed were no Jews. There are 400,000 Jews in Argentina and writer deplores their inaction in the face of rising Nazism. Gives complex circumstances of his release: he lost his citizenship and property and was sent to Israel in 1979 after thirty months of imprisonment."
links for 2009-04-23
April 24, 2009-
This is a <b>test</b> of <i>using</i> HTML in the title and notes of a post to my <a href="http://del.icio.us/mshook">del.icio.us account</a>.
<p>
This post is coming from http://onlywire.com
links for 2009-04-22
April 23, 2009-
"The best place to start is this web page:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+DocumentationThat lists all the information you can get from Twitter about other users. All of the API calls are actually web addresses, so you can work with them without using any code. For example, if you type this into the address bar of Firefox or Safari (not tested on IE) you'll see a formatted list of the IDs of all my friends:
http://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml?screen_name=petewardenThe same idea works for followers:
http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml?screen_name=petewardenThe output is actually XML, but you don't need to understand the details to pull out simple information. It's not quite CSV, but hopefully with some simple text replacement hacking you might be able to convert it to the form you want. "
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"Jan, if I recall correctly, when I tried out CouchDB last year, Lucene wasn't in releases or trunk (and the branch didn't build) and the replication was a joke. While there has been consistently big talk about CouchDB scaling, I could not find any actual distributed features for dealing with large datasets. CouchDB choked on a relatively modest data set when generating views – many minutes to generate one on a small 100K item/2GB data set. It also took 5+GB of storage for that.
I also couldn't really wrap my head about the benefit of not having indexes but having to recalculate a view anytime the data changed, but I'd say mostly that at the time (and based on the Q&A at Bob Ippolito's talk maybe still) that CouchDB fanboys and developers were all over the Internet taking up oxygen about Couch while like I mentioned, what I assumed were core components didn't exist workably, much less being suitable for anything but the most toy test projects."
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Multiple database engines, multiple protocols (including HTTP), replication, blazing fast and compact.
saradiya
TAGS* database
* distributed
* memcached
* tokyocabinet
* hashtable#
"introduction to tokyo products" — mikio hirabayashi
tlossen
TAGS* presentations
* slides
* tokyo_cabinet#
15 FEB 09
… and tokyo dystopia, for good measure.
chl
TAGS* tokyo-cabinet
* tokyo-tyrant
* tokyo-dystopia
* db
* indexing
* n-gram
* search#
13 FEB 09
Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Tyrant Presentation
links for 2009-04-21
April 22, 2009-
1. created mathematical models of data coming from mobile devices and an algorithm that analyzed this data from his sample of 100 students and could predict what each would do next. ..he has been working with much larger mobile data sets from up to 250 million people in Europe, Asia, and Africa to help telecom companies ..understand their customers and .. create a model of contagion dissemination.
2. past two years in Kenya. The majority of the mobile phone user market lives in developing countries and is under-served, a condition which motivated MIT to start EPROM, Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles, to make sure computer science students in Africa learn how to program mobile phones. ..describes 2 .. projects… – one in which mobile text messaging has been used for hospital blood supply management across the country and a second in which an SMS bulletin board was created allowing low-end mobile handsets to access web content similar to craigslist."
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http://www.robotwisdom.com
"For readers, the Internet is an embarrassment of riches, with thousands of pages of new text t sift through daily. Thank goodness, then, for "weblogs," sites that scour the Web for interesting prose and data. What elevates Robot Wisdom above other weblogs is the catholicity of its creator, Jorn Barger, who has a healthy appetite for everything from literature to science. The result is a world defined by Barger's curiosity, in which an article about a grand plan to film all nineteen Beckett plays sits comfortably alongside a report on post-Chernbyl cleanup efforts." -
We think of the natural world as infinite and treat information as scarce. It should be the other way around.
"The openness of the digital commons has created abundant and freely available social value but not a way to monetize it. In the talk from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation asks: to which degree are the interests of peer producing and sharing communities both similar but also divergent with the owners of the infrastructures and the proprietary platforms? Can we find a way that satisfies both communities and corporations?..is the founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives which researches and promotes peer to peer alternatives in all areas of social life. He is a Belgian national now living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, animating a global cybercollective from this tropical mountain city which is at the epicenter of the Asian Renaissance. Before, he was a serial internet entrepreneur in his native country, activ…"
links for 2009-04-20
April 21, 2009-
"Keywords
Adamstown, Pennsylvania;
All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com);
Architects, Architecture;
Architectural salvage;
Barger, Jorn;
Civil Liberties, Civil Rights;
CommunicationsABSTRACT: WEB SIGHTINGS reviews of NYC Surveillance Camera Project (www.mediaeater.com/cameras); Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus (www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus); Inside.com ( http://www.inside.com); The On-Line Books Page (digital.library.upenn.edu/books); Ed Donaldson Hardware Restorations (www.eddonaldson.com); All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com); Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com); Robot Wisdom (www.robotwisdom.com)."
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Keywords Blogs; Internet; Communications; Hourihan, Meg; Kottke, Jason; Pyra; E-mail ABSTRACT: DIGITAL CULTURE about Meg Hourihan, and blogging (making a diary-like hyperlinked log) one's discoveries on the net. . . Meg is one of the founders of a company called Pyra, which produces an Internet application known as Blogger. Blogger, which can be used free on the Internet, is a tool for creating a new kind of Web site that is known as a "weblog," or "blog," of which Megnut is an example. A blog consists primarily of links to other Web sites and commentary about those links. . . Jason Kottke, a Web designer from Minneapolis who maintains a site called Kottke.org, is widely admired among bloggers as a thoughtful critic of Web culture. (On the strength of the picture transmitted by his Webcam, he is also widely perceived as very cute. If you read around…"
links for 2009-04-19
April 20, 2009-
I like the way this is written with the bold paragraph labels.
"Bottom line: Some private Medicare plans can be good deals. Others will wind up costing you more than you would pay with a Medicare-Medigap combination."
"Also: Some Medicare Advantage plans are evaluated by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, with results published periodically in US News & World Report. To see how 325 plans rank, go to http://health.usnews.com/usnews/
health/best-health-insurance/rank_ medicare_2006.htm."
links for 2009-04-17
April 17, 2009-
http://www.danoday.com/chickenman/chickenman.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenman_(radio_series)
"Chickenman was a radio series spoofing comic book heroes. It was created by Dick Orkin when he was a production director at WCFL in Chicago, Illinois. The famous catch-phrase of the series was "He's everywhere – he's everywhere !"
Talkabout 