December 30, 2005 – 8:09 pm
Continuing my folksonomy smackdown I ask: did anyone ever get much value out of Yahoo’s original offering? If I recall right, Yahoo stands for Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Ontology. You can tell academics thought up that one. I learned pretty quickly way back in the nineties that instead of browsing through Yahoo’s hierarchy of categorized […]
December 30, 2005 – 2:03 pm
The latest Pew study of Internet usage suggests that different people use the Internet in different ways and in different amounts. You get the feeling that Pew would like to have us believe that the most salient way of dividing up the online population is into male and female since they title their study “How […]
December 29, 2005 – 7:47 pm
Prior to adding tech blogging to my mom blogging action, I had heard of del.icio.us but hadn’t considered using it. Once I started subscribing to tech blogs and reading them on a regular basis, I couldn’t escape the hype. I’ve begun using it but I have to wonder: what’s the big deal? So I can […]
December 28, 2005 – 8:29 pm
Because on reddit I find insightful things like this prediction for the new year:
Another blog search engine will release a list of top 100 bloggers. Every blogger on the list will blog the news in the form of: “Wow, I’m honored to have made it onto the top 100 list” with a link back to […]
December 28, 2005 – 7:48 pm
Why are there so few women working on open source software projects? From the August 8th issue of Computerworld:
Only about 2% of the thousands of developers working on open-source software projects are women, a number that women already involved in the open-source movement want to see increased.
That issue was the topic of a panel discussion […]
December 28, 2005 – 7:08 pm
But it’s strange that it put my second post below my first… maybe because the time (to the closest minute) was the same?
December 28, 2005 – 7:07 pm
I finally started using Firefox 1.5 as my default web browser. I installed the Performancing extension that should let me blog from a split-panel in the browser window so I can immediately log pages of interest. I’m hoping this will be a blogging performance boost similar to what happened when I began using Bloglines. Before […]
December 21, 2005 – 10:15 am
No time for a complete post of my own so here’s what I’ve been reading and chewing on about women in computing:
The Boston Globe looks at the gender gap in computer science.
Shelley Powers calls for more disagreement and debate about women’s visibility and participation in tech work. She announced that the SxSW Women and Visibility […]
December 19, 2005 – 3:26 pm
As a way of learning more about syndication formats and because it’s fun, I’m planning to build a feed filter/synthesizer/remixer. It should optimize my blog tracking too. But I wasn’t sure and still am not sure what programming language and other tools to use. A couple months ago I started learning ASP.NET with C#, because […]
December 16, 2005 – 3:18 pm
The day after I recommended TypePad as an easy start to blogging to someone, the service completely crashes. Happily, I chose to use Blogger for this blog so I’m not completely incommunicado. I am very disappointed that the long post I wrote about my kindergartner’s reading progress may have gotten eaten up though. One reason […]
