January 2012
Instagram and Flickr, the one where I refine my argument « Rev Dan Catt's Blog
Yep, comments seem a bit of an anachronism nowadays. I think I’ll probably turn them off on my blog too, when I get round to deploying the new version I’ve half-finished. I miss the long-form responses though. Tweet responses can be hard to follow with the character limit forcing over-simplicity. That’s one of the nice things about Google+, although it’d be nicer still to make more of a return to personal blogs.
Instagram and Flickr, the one where I refine my argument « Rev Dan Catt's Blog
I’m tempted to just turn comments off, they certainly attract more spam than good stuff. I think they make sense if you already have a huge readership, otherwise other channels seem better. I kind of like the olden days, where you’d see a blog post and respond by writing your own blog post linking to the former.
December 2011
Matt's Shed: Static Comments Plugin for Jekyll
A simple plugin to allow static comments in Jekyll
July 2011
Using Multiple Vocabularies in Microdata | Jeni's Musings
soupirs. In between two evils.P.S. your reCAPTCHA is extremely frustrating, I only get it right 30% of the time. Google+ integration of comments would be awesome.
May 2011
Comments are dead. Long live comments! - Phillip Smith
deux choses opposées dans la même phraseThat is the situation we are left with today: Comments, discussion and identity are scattered all over the web. Even worse, the majority of what we as individuals have to say online is locked in competing, often commercial, prisons — or “corporate blogging silos” — and is completely disconnected from our online identity.
April 2011
The Official Windows 7 Repository
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December 2010
The Trouble With Web Standards, Part 2: Top-Down Doesn’t Work | Salsita Software
karl dubost said at 4:32 am on December 14th, 2010:
Matthew Gertner: “I’ll concede that I have more experience with W3C standards than with those of other organizations. ”
http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/search?keywords=Matthew+Gertner+
Matthew Gertner: “Someone at the W3C, the de facto master of all things web, decided that we needed a proper schema language for XML.”
Ah? It is usually not the way it is happening. Someone with experience of W3C knows that usually some companies being W3C members have interests in developing a market (because they need interop, because they need to sell products, because… etc.). These companies under the umbrella of W3C organize a Workshop where they gather position papers. After this Workshop, a report is written and published. If more interests, an activity proposal is drafted. This activity proposal is then sent to W3C Membership for reviews and comments. More comments, more modifications. Basically the goal is to establish if the Members have enough interests to commit resources for developing the work. WG charters are established along the same line.
XML at W3C has been pushed because companies had developed tools for handling it and thought that because invested a lot of efforts in the XML toolchain, let’s reuse pieces of it.
IMHO, the standards activities anywhere (including W3C) derail when Marketing dept/Product groups have too much impact on the specification itself. The standard is not anymore driven by the market needs, but the companies are creating the market. HTML5 starts to become known outside of the tech sphere and I think we will have surprises.
The top-down approach in a standard organization seems bit strange considering that the work is the result (usually) of a community of practice.
As for an individual or a small group is not “best” for creating technical specs, it is just easier and address the needs of this small group. So indeed it is easier to produce something which is consistent for this group, which goes faster to implement, to market, etc. That doesn’t mean the technology is better :) The bigger the committee the larger the number of issues. This is a truism. All communities are working like this.
Matthew Gertner: “I’d rather see companies get their tech out there and open it up afterward because it’s in their interest (which is usually is).”
Yes and it is what happens most of the time. That doesn’t mean it will necessary solve things. A good example has been SVG. Three “proprietary” specifications were published before the SVG work with people having things implemented in products. But the spec grew too big, with many people wanted to have their own feature, domain introduced in the specs. Standardizing means reducing diversity, and it’s sometimes take times. For SVG, Macromedia (which was bought far later by Adobe) was on the initial SVG WG… as lurkers and unfortunately not really active participants. This is another reality of standards organization.
There are many more issues. W3C (the organization) is doing a fair job at balancing the interests of everyone. There are frictions, nothing is perfect, but there has been always room for improvements. The process has always been flexible for welcoming new use cases.
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Des places qui créent du capital social « Bibliomancienne
karl dit :
4 décembre 2010 à 18:01
une pensée de Petit-Bourgeois: Généralement employé pour signifier que la personne est en dehors de la réalité sociale de la masse. Qu’elle vit dans un univers protégé où la morale de bon comportement, de société où les gens quand la chance leur est donnée devraient naturellement se tourner vers le bon côté des choses.
Une exemple de pensée petit bourgeois : « Si nous créons avec des fonds publics, des espaces culturels, etc. les gens vont naturellement affluer pour se cultiver, pourquoi devraient-ils refuser cela ? »
La cohésion sociale est très très différente selon les pays, les valeurs d’éducation, et l’évolution économique. Bien que cela fasse longtemps que j’ai quitté la France (10 ans) et que j’ai vécu entre Japon et Canada. Je suis quotidiennement surpris au Québec et au Japon par la docilité des gens, l’« honnêteté » face aux structures collectives et même privée. C’est même très difficile à accepter pour moi. Cela ne tient pas du réflexe naturel.
En espérant que cela aide à comprendre. Ah oui autre chose pour comprendre le contexte du qualificatif, les français sont en général très directs sur les débats d’idées, sanguins, … ce qui aussi est quelque chose qui m’a valu parfois des troubles ici, car mes idées étaient exprimées trop brutalement.
Donc ne pas trop prendre à cœur l’épithète en question
November 2010
Improving the Web for Digital Publishing « Design and Web
By karl - 2:10 PM on November 7, 2010
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Did you publish a draft specification document somewhere about it? Could you send it as a W3C Member Submission and/or Editor’s draft to CSS WG. The earlier, the better.
October 2010
France Culture - Blog - La saison Science Publique : 2009-2010 - Partie 1/2 - En quête de science - Telecharger avex
by decembre
Iron Man, homo faber | Totem
karl sur 28/10/2010 à 15:42
“l’ordinateur n’a pas été assimilé (dans l’imaginaire) à LA technologie”
ah ? L’ordinateur est tout à fait un outil technologique dans mon imaginaire. Et je vis avec depuis longtemps. Que l’ordinateur passe de produits où je crée à un produit (programmation) où je consomme (ipad) est dû à son élargissement dans la population.
Le rêve de le 2001 réalisé en *1968* montre le rêve de l’intelligence artificielle et d’humaniser la machine. Ce rêve existe depuis le début de la mécanique (voir The Mechanical Turk en 1770).
Les blindés lourds de Avatar sont défaits par des êtres ailées en 2009 de la même façon que les blindés lourds de Star Wars par les Ewoks, habitants de la forêt en 1983 et pourtant le global warming ne faisait pas la une de la presse encore.
L’hologramme dans Star Wars est déjà présent. Metropolis en 1927 déjà humanise la technologie.
Je ne crois pas du tout à la technologie qui disparaît mais bien plus à la mise en contexte de ce qui se passe dans les labos de recherche et leur contextualisation romancée dans le cinéma.
http://www.la-grange.net/2010/01/18/ui-future
Iron Man, homo faber | Totem
karl sur 28/10/2010 à 15:13
ah il faut donc voir “Iron Man 1″, car l’homme fabriquant son armure, c’est la génèse de Iron Man lorsqu’il est pris en otage par des hommes dans le désert. Je pense que le 2 reproduit l’image du 1. En répétant exactement la même séquence. Iron Man 1 faisait référence au complexe militaro-industriel, aux terrorismes du moyen-orient, etc. Iron Man 2 fait référence à l’ex-URSS et ses scientifiques qui s’ennuient et veulent conquérir le monde avec les moyens du bord. Cough Cough. Clichés à fond ;)
Le film ne montre pas la disparition de la technologie, mais celle de la mécanique lourde, ce qui est légèrement différent. Les gens ne jouent plus au mécano mais avec arduino. La technologie est toujours présente, elle occupe un domaine différent :)
Est-ce que par cette lecture, vous révélez votre age ? ;)
Firesheep Demonstrates The Need For SSL | Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage
karl says:
10/27/2010 at 8:40 am
>It’s actually surprising to me that so many people are shocked by what this demonstrates. Even those who claim to be technically literate seem taken back. Insecure sites by definition are insecure.
Among people, I have read, it was not about the fact it was insecure, but more about the “contrat social” game changer. It’s not really about security but about contextual security. I’m surprised by the reactions of people too, but more because they thought there was an unwritten contrat social in any situations. Being at a friend’s house and respecting privacy of each other is one thing, being in a cafe or a conference is another thing. Not the same level of security and impacts.
Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of Fiction | booktwo.org
Hi James, (I guess I should put that somewhere, maybe on my Web site later today) About the article on Network Realism http://booktwo.org/notebook/network-realism/ I haven't read Gibson's book - Zero History, but I have written something about "Network Opacity" which somehow relates to the idea you are explaining. I usually do not like to use the word "Privacy", because I do not think it really exists as a binary concept. I prefer to use the concept of "Opacity" as a continuum of information permeability. More or less opaque, depending on contexts, people, distances and *time*, we will access to the information about people. The Internet network has a tendency to make the opacity super thin and that creates all issues that people/media call "Privacy". You can read about it "From Privacy To Opacity - Digital Me Management" http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/papers/privacy-ws-3 Let's go back to "Zero History". The value of things is motivated by a few parameters: * difficult to reproduce * difficult to access History has value because we forget. In a society, where all our memories are always accessible, identically, and even in some circumstances shared, memories has suddenly no meaning. They became part of the present. The value of remembering is (was) higher because we have a risk to forget. The opacity of time becoming thinner this risk is less important. Then the paradigm changes into something else. Maybe in our capacity to keep all these data always. We become obsess by data backups, we do not want to loose anything digital, because it becomes easier and cheaper to keep, to have access to the past at anytime. The past is part of the present. As for the future, it doesn't exist.Network Realism is writing that is of and about the network. It’s realism because it’s so close to our present reality. A realism that posits an increasingly 1:1 relationship between Fiction and the World. A realtime link. And it’s networked because it lives in a place that’s that’s enabled by, and only recently made possible by, our technological connectedness.
Comment enrayer la chute de la lecture des enfants ? - La Feuille - Blog LeMonde.fr
Dans ce genre de graphiques, ce qui est dérangeant est qu’il cache certainement beaucoup de choses mais que c’est impossible de savoir ce qu’il cache exactement.
* Quel type de lectures ?
* Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ?
* Enfant des villes, enfant des champs
* catégories socio-professionnelles
* Type de médias accessibles, il y a 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 ans avant. Les enfants des milieux ouvriers ou agriculteurs lisaient ils en 1920 et que lisaient ils ?
* Combien de temps lisent-ils ?
* Dans quels pays ? Combien de ces enfants travaillent pour soutenir la famille ?
Il s’agit bien sûr d’un rapport américain et je suppose qu’il existe une variété entre les états et également à l’échelle du comté.
La décroissanse de la lecture pour le *plaisir* est normale puisque la lecture *utile* ou *pédagogique* prend le bas. J’ai lu Madame Bovary pour l’école, pas par plaisir. Je l’ai relu beaucoup plus tard par plaisir. Typiquement de l’âge de 11 ans à 23 ans, j’ai eu une pause très nette dans mes habitudes de lecture. 24 ans étant l’âge où je suis sorti du parcours académique et donc où j’ai eu du temps pour lire pour le plaisir.
:)
karl, le 25 octobre 2010 à 16:07
Chronophages les transports ? « Enjeux mobilités et urbanités
karl dit :
Votre commentaire est en attente de modération
25 octobre 2010 à 14 h 01 min
Il est intéressant de réaliser que les européens ont des habitudes assez semblables à celle du Japon pour les temps de trajets. Voir http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0011.html
La grande différence étant le mur des 60 minutes. Au delà de 60 minutes, les européens disent non alors qu’au Japon, les personnes se plient. J’ai vécu au Japon pendant 3 ans. Mon temps de trajet quotidien pour aller travailler en train+bus était de 1h30 le matin, et 1h30 le soir. Je n’ai jamais autant lu que pendant cette période.
Bonne pioche | Scriptopolis
karl on 21.10.2010 at 15:46
Did he/she try « dated space » putting stuff into /2010/01/ in January, then into /2010/02/ in February, etc.
Then use the capabilities of the computer for searching through dynamic folders, keywords, etc. There could be a dynamic search folder with that has been downloaded today, then one for yesterday, one for this week, one for « Beaudelaire » because it is what is interesting to the person these days. It will be destroyed later on, without losing the files, and then the person will create a new one such as recipes. etc. Embrace chaos,
(Paris Web !) #6 Innover de 9 à 5 (sur les heures de bureau) - Martius Web
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par karl Le mardi 19 octobre 2010, 18:57
Pour le français expatrié au Canada. Il est parti de France en 2000 vers le Japon et puis ensuite en 2008 vers le Canada.
Pour 37 Signals, un autre élément que les personnes oublient de mentionner : la taille de leur entreprise. Leurs techniques prennent du sens uniquement sur de petites structures.
Innover en France dans ce cadre de hacking. Oui. Pour avoir travailler en France. L’important est hacking qui tient à *observer* et utiliser les ressources *disponibles* pour créer des choses dans la limite de l’interstice. Tout espace contraint offre une possibilité d’exploration.
HTML5 Simplequiz #3: how to mute a video | HTML5 Doctor
Comment by karl at
October 15th, 2010 at
4:25 pm
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Bruce, I do not understand exactly the use case. Are you saying that the page contains a list of videos, let say: three videos. One would have an attribute muted="false" and the two others muted="true"?
1. The person arrives on the page the first video is not muted.
2. Then the person mutes it and unmutes the second video.
3. The person closes the tab.
4. The person comes back later on the same page and the state is the second video is unmuted and 1 and 3 muted?
It seems windows media player had a param name="Mute" value="false" . (*to check*)
Youtube has in its API
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html
* player.mute():Void -- Mutes the player.
* player.isMuted():Boolean - Returns true if the player is muted, false if not.
DailyMotion API
http://www.dailymotion.com/en/doc/api/player/javascript_api
* player.mute():Void -- Mutes the audio playback.
* player.isMuted():Boolean - If audio playback is muted, returns true, false otherwise.
Vimeo Moogaloop video player doesn't seem to have anything for mute in the API.
http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:25102
A parameter which is mute="" seems to be aligned with YouTube and DailyMotion
Showing dynamics on a business chart - Junk Charts
There are two issues on the better graph you realized and that could improve the whole thing.
1. Showing that it is from 2007 to 2010. The labeling gives only 2007 and creates confusion when seen alone without the context of the text.
2. Adding the word "World". The market share and profit share are intended to be worldwide. It is important, because many many articles are often given number when it is only USA market shares, and people copy them thinking it is worldwide.
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karl | Oct 14, 2010 at 07:42 AM
Hacking for Christ: Temporary Mailing Lists
The ad-hoc mailing list is cool. But you never know when a discussion stop and restart. There are some ongoing discussions I have with friends which last for years but at a very irregular pace and sometimes with 6 months of inactivity.
The last year and a half I have been confronted to a similar issue:
1. It costs to create a mailing list (admin work, email addresses, etc.)
2. Archives are good, specifically in a work context. It helps rebuild context for people who are late in the discussion. It helps remembering some decisions.
3. People do not know how to use dynamic folders for managing their emails. (Unfortunately) (All my mails of the last 20 years are in dated space folder with dynamic folders created for the current needs)
4. People do not know how to unsubscribe a mailing-list, but they know how to cc someone.
5. Some mails really belongs to more than one context, and it is a struggle for some people to know where to send them.
Some thoughts about a possible system (all issues not solved)
1. So I was wondering about a system where each mail has a unique id (already the case) and is saved online with its own archive.
2. The mail before being sent to the recipients has its header modified with a Archived-At: containing the URI of this specific mail.
3. It could have another header X-Thread-Archive-at: with the list or content of all emails in this thread.
4. The ACLs are dynamically set on each Web individual archive depending on who has been copied to this email.
5. The ACLs are inclusive for any new persons who is being added to the thread, including previous messages.
6. There is a possibility to tag and/or do positive bias filtering on emails the same way we do with spam, in a working context we would have a kind of shared vocabulary of contexts dynamically created. So the mails would be showing in dynamic contextual views.
Posted by: karl at October 13, 2010 12:54 AM
1897 Bicycle Map of Montreal « Spacing Montreal
I was intrigued by the red square with "peloquin hotel". I found this
"A very large church, built in 1851, stands near the car track, and bears a strong resemblance to the celebrated St. Anne de Beaupre, near Quebec. The illustration shows one of the wayside shrines so numerous in the country parts of Quebec Province. This particular shrine (which has a figure of the Virgin in the turret on the roof) is placed on the road-side between Sault-aux-Recollets and Peloquin's. Peloquin is a name very well known to Montrealers, the hotel being one of the most popular outside of Montreal, and a favourite resort for bicycle clubs, driving parties, the Montreal Tandem Club, and the Montreal Hunt Club. " http://www.oldandsold.com/articles05/montreal-5.shtml
Comment by karl
October 6, 2010 | 12:06 pm
Inventing a HTTP response code a.k.a. seriously nerd-ing out on RFCs - mehack
Oct 04, 2010
karlpro said...
HTTP gives you a way to handle the right user (agent) interaction. In the discussion there is a missing piece above. What is the URI? The HTTP code will give information about a URI and its evolution in time. For a user agent, is it a fixed one or temporary one? I'm surprised you didn't use a 307 Temporary Redirect. The information accessible at this URI is not accessible anymore, you can send the client to another URI with with an Expire field, with the information that the client has reached its limits and should retry the original URI in xxxx minutes. What is happening on the server side, machine limits, disks, etc. is *not* important and not part of the exchange of messages. Think about what is useful for going to the next meaningful interactions in terms of messaging (for a human or a software).Note also that HTTP WG is at work to define HTTPbis and it is the right time to have contributions of people who have real implementations issues. I would encourage you to send an email to the HTTP Working Group at ietf-http-wg@w3.org with the link to this blog post and an introduction.The draft documents are available at http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/
Lemonde.fr et le cercle des manifestants disparus | Iconique
karl sur 3 octobre 2010 à 16:22
Votre commentaire est en attente de modération. Hmmm. Votre analyse semble erronée également. Il ne faut pas comparer les diamètres mais les surfaces, c’est la quantité réelle à mesurer. Prenons le dernier chiffre 150,000 et 19,000. Arrondissons à 150 et 19.
S = PI*R^2
Donc le rayon est
R = sqrt(S/PI)
150 donne un rayon de 6.9 et et 19 donne un rayon de 2.5. soit des diamètres respectifs de 13 et 5. Et cela correspond bien à ce que la carte montre.
Refaisons l’exercice pour Pau. (18 et 12). Nous obtenons les diamètres de 3.9 et 4.8.
Maintenant le mode de visualisation de deux disques superposés n’est généralement pas approprié à la comparaison de deux grandeurs, car comme vous le montrez vous-même, les gens ne savent pas « lire deux surfaces superposées » surtout quand la valeur de l’une englobe l’autre. Deux surfaces en carré côte à côte aurait mieux fonctionné. Mais le plus explicite aurait été de mettre les chiffres bruts et la différence en pourcentage entre les deux valeurs.
