December 2011
Israeli settlements and other infrastructure in the West Bank
Comes with the Territory - we make money not art
November 2011
OpenRePub
The Mission Provide a platform to openly publish and openly peer review academic research. This is in contrast to the closed review practices common to academic publishing today. We believe an open model such as this will accelerate the outcome of research for both the individual researcher and the community.
August 2011
Re: Redirection after DELETE? from Roy T. Fielding on 2006-11-14 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from October to December 2006)
it is just bad design to assume a closed universe
July 2011
Crack The Surface - Episode I on Vimeo
The first in a series of short documentaries focusing on the culture of Urban Exploring, those who risk it all to access and infiltaite closed or forgotten spaces.
May 2011
zeroflux.org
March 2011
February 2011
Asylum by Christopher Payne - Ideas - Dwell
January 2011
Pine Point
Why I Don't Use Facebook | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
Facebook is retro because, like AOL, it's retro by its nature. It's a closed system.
Doc Searls Weblog · What if Flickr fails?
What’s to stop another company from doing to Facebook what Facebook did to MySpace? More to my point, what’s to stop some new owned-by-nobody technology or collection of protocols and free code from doing to Facebook what SMTP, POP3 and IMAP (the protocols of free and open email) did to MCI Mail, Compuserve mail, AOL mail, and the rest of the closed mail systems that competed with each other as commercial offerings? Not much, frankly.
The Joel on Software Discussion Group (CLOSED) - Why I Hate Frameworks
November 2010
Open Source iPhone Software - The best open source apps on the iPhone.
October 2010
Rethinking Wikipedia contributions rates | eaves.ca
karl dubost 0 minutos atrás I guess there are other things which might influence than only the raw number of participations. The social dynamic of Wikipedia system has evolved. The rules (like any communities) have strengthened and are more rigid than what they were in the past. It is basically more and more painful to create content for Wikipedia. As an occasional editor, I'm less and less inclined to make the effort to contribute because the article might go quickly under "Articles for Deletion" hammer.
Interesting thing to look at:
1. Timeline of Articles for Deletion (raw number and % of how many new articles)
2. Deletion compared to new contributors (stable, going down, going up)
3. Timeline should also plot the milestones of new editing rules.
4. The rate of new articles creation compared to the number of contributors.
These could drive to new processes, maybe there is a need for a better drafting tool that will help an article to reach a stage of maturity to be part of Wikipedia, and this will create another set of behaviours ;) Not a closed system.
July 2010
Friday’s Trick #2: Websocket/Comet survival guide to Proxy, Firewall and Network Outage « 6312
You can loose server side events under the following conditions:
- long-polling: between reconnection, servers side events may happens and if they aren’t persisted, those events will never reach your client.
- websocket: Websocket are new and most if not all firewall will close them after some X idle times. Again, all server sides events will be lost
- http-streaming: Some proxy really don’t like the http-streaming technique, and will close it right away. Again, possibility to loose server sides events.
- Unexpected network outage: the connection can also be closed by something between your browser and server.
Je pense qu'il ment pour WebSockets, Hixie n'aurait pas pu laisser passer une telle déficience, il est infaillible et tellement pragmatique.
June 2010
Countering the Perception That the iPhone OS Is Too Closed
Polygon Area and Centroid
The centroid is also known as the "centre of gravity" or the "center of mass". The position of the centroid assuming the polygon to be made of a material of uniform density is given below. As in the calculation of the area above, xN is assumed to be x0, in other words the polygon is closed.
Centroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The centroid of a non-self-intersecting closed polygon defined by n vertices (x0,y0), (x1,y1), ..., (xn−1,yn−1) is the point (Cx, Cy), where [1]
May 2010
Iniva - Institute of International Visual Arts
Introduction to Whose Map is it?
new mapping by artists. Location: Rivington Place Time: 02 Jun – 24 Jul 2010 Tues, Weds, Fri 11am - 6pm Thurs Late opening until 9pm Saturday 12 - 6pm Closed Sunday, Monday Admission: Free
Airspace Rebooted on Vimeo
A visualisation of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash. Due to varying ash density across Europe, the first flights can be seen in some areas on the 18th and by the 20th everywhere is open.
March 2010
QuirksBlog: HTML5 apps
The mist-wreathed ruins of Matsuo mine | michael john grist
Matsuo mine in the north of Japan opened in 1914 and closed in 1969.
February 2010
Stowe Boyd - /message - Why Closed Works: Moving Past Steampunk Thinking About The Future Of Computing
we don't need to know about the files and folders. We don't need a desktop with data bundles lying in piles.
January 2010
Joho the Blog » The opposite of “open” is “theirs”
So, if we’re going to talk about the value of the open Internet, we have to ask what the opposite of “open” is. No one is proposing a closed Internet. When it comes to the Internet, the opposite of “open” is “theirs.”


