2011
Hypermedia APIs - Jon Moore on Vimeo
RESTful web services are one of our core design patterns. Fielding’s thesis identifies four major constraints that identify a RESTful architecture (statelessness, resource-orientation, uniform interface, hypermedia-driven application state). Many “RESTful” APIs only get 3 out of 4 of these; we’ve begun experimenting with using XHTML as a media type for our APIs, and this provides a lot of power in terms of scalability and loose coupling between client and server.
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless... - but does it float
“By 1920, Ferriss had begun to develop his own style, frequently presenting the building at night, lit up by spotlights, or in a fog, as if photographed with a soft focus. The shadows cast by and on the building became almost as important as the revealed surfaces. He had somehow managed to develop a style that would elicit emotional responses from the viewer.”
Stack Overflow Search — Now 81% Less Crappy - Blog – Stack Overflow
Although our de-crapifying efforts have been noble and heroic (well, in my mind, anyway), we’ve clearly begun to exceed the scope and scale of what SQL Server search can do for us.
That’s why I’m pleased to announce that as of today, we have switched all of our search functionality network wide from SQL Server to Lucene, or more specifically, the Lucene.NET flavor.
Twitter endorsements face OFT clampdown | Technology | The Guardian
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has begun a crackdown on Twitter users and bloggers using their online presence to endorse products and companies without clearly stating their relationship with the brand.
We Lost Our Gold
2010
Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web | Technology | guardian.co.uk
For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review - NYTimes.com
société du réseauNow some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to career-making journals and, as a consequence, to the charmed circle of tenured academe.
adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » Lesson #1 From Pandora: The PCs’ Return to being Productivity Tools
While the majority of users still access Pandora through their PCs, that percentage is decreasing, and trends suggest it will probably drop below 50% by the end of the year. This falls in line with some research we’ve done, which suggests that the era of PCs as media devices has begun to wane.
The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl » Blog Archive » Isaac, Part 5 in our continuing series
The publishing of science fiction in book form in the U.S. had just begun, and I wanted Isaac to get in on it. The trouble was that Doubleday, the most interesting of the hardcover houses, had decided that they wanted new works, not reprinted serials taken from the pulps. (It was a dumb decision, and later, when they realized what they were missing out on and reversed it they made a fortune out of those old Foundation and robot books.)
Quand l'éditeur ne juge plus les oeuvres mais se contente de fixer une politique, il échoue dans son travail.
2009
Procedure in Plain Air
Portable Contacts
0047 Publications
The increased activity in the Arctic has already begun to change the content and fabric of the urban north. The continued regional development will involve meetings and fusions amongst an array of cultures and styles, between history and modernization, between civilization and nature, between east and west, between nations looking for resources and towns and cities hoping to get a share, all staged in a vast landscape with widespread urban nodes. The question is how these encounters will play out.
Northern Experiments – The Barents Urban Survey 2009 is a collaborative effort to discuss selected key cities and urban phenomena in the Barents Region, containing the northernmost areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland and of Northwest Russia. The project is directed by 0047 in co-operation with The Barents Triennale and Pikene på broen.
Megalopolis Shanghai by Horst and Daniel Zielske | Daily Icon
In this series of pictures, the two photographers - father and son - present Shanghai between fiction and reality as the ‘city of tomorrow’. The focal point of their photographic work is the architecture of the city’s streets, a critical investigation and analysis encompassing the subject of urban landscape. In a long-term project begun in November 2002, they have been documenting the metropolis Shanghai as an urban composition, a man-made architectural living space and enviroment of unprecedented and unimaginably gigantic dimensions. The resulting images are of immense visual beauty.
Nat King Cole | When I Fall In Love lyrics
Google I/O - OpenSocial in the Enterprise
Digital History Hacks (2005-08)
When I began this blog, I had the idea that it would be an integral part of my critical and reflective technical practice. For the past three years, it has served admirably, providing an easy way to share ideas and code and putting me in touch with a wide range of colleagues and new friends. During that time I've tried to stay true to the promise of "hacks," even if I pushed the boundaries of both "digital" and "history". As my technical work has evolved, however, I've begun to feel like this blog is less and less suited to my day-to-day activities. Rather than try and force it to fit, I've decided to build something new.
JLM Pacific Epoch - Google China: '08 Mobile Stats, '09 Strategy, SafeSearch Chinese Version
Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) China's mobile search traffic increased four-fold in 2008, making China Google's third largest mobile search market behind Japan and the U.S., reports qq.com quoting Lin Bin, vice director of Google China's engineering institute. Google China's mobile map usage climbed seven-fold in 2008 to come in second after the U.S. According to an unnamed source, the company plans to use its cloud computing technology to improve mobile, MP3 and map search services in 2009. Google China's map products have begun generating revenue and the company may consider increasing revenue via advertising, said Google China technology director Li Yi. Google China's MP3 search service (www.google.cn/music) was launched through a partnership with music site Top100.cn in early August.
The day of San Valentin (14 of February)
Jantzi Social Index - About The JSI
2008
Rubrique à brac - Forums MacBidouille
Troops patrolling Italian cities
Japan Pictures
