The BBC has been hosting a hopeful dialogue between an Eygptian and Israeli woman. (See BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mid-East pen friends part 4: Shared land) Besides the hope that such conversations inspire in the face of the ordered murder both sides have fallen into, it is worth noting how this conversation works as a dialogue. Its power lies in its being witnessed – its being played out in public. The comments almost overwhelm the conversation – and in the public play conversation becomes dialogue.
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Nomic
Peter Suber, Nomic is a page by the philosophy prof Peter Suber on the game he invented in 1982 called Nomic which is a game where changing the rules is a move. Rebecca could, if each move involved changing one program, become a programming form of Nomic.
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LabColor, Design Blog
LabColor-2004 is a simple blog dedicated to attractive web designs of others. Not babble, just the links and highlights with small images to the side. There is a llesson here.
News Bursts
Daypop Top News Bursts is a site that lists clusters of news stories around word bursts. They don’t give the algorithm, but it seems to do something like what Google News does – provides clusters of stories that have similar subjects and which have a “heightened useage of certain words…”
Can this be used on a text? Could you treat a text with paragraphs as if each paragraph were a story in time. Sentences could be pulled that best show the heightened usage of words. Something like that…
nanofestival
zeroglab nanofestival is a miniature portable festival of very short (10 second) digiVids. They use a Creative Commons license to let the whole festival be taken up for free.
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notlong.org: Short URLs
A comment to a note on Annotations had an intriguing comment by Seb who has a blog at seb.notlong.org. I went there, and, because the server was busy it dropped me into the notlong.org site which provides simple service where people can get a short url created that resolves to their longer url. Thus XXX.notlong.org resolves to something entirely different. (Thanks Seb – this is the second note with something I have learned from him.)
See notlong Short URL Redirection: Make a long URL notlong. This suggests one could create a long term url that would travel with you like a life phone number. (What would I do with all my stuff at Mac if I left?)
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Network Fragments, Analysis of E-Mail
One emerging form of structured text analysis is the analysis of large corpora of e-mail. See Social Network Fragments and InFlow and Email Datamining. Both projects create visualizations of networks much as Steve Ramsay does with StageGraph.
An interesting question for TAPoR is whether we can build an aggregator that can build a corpus from e-mail that could be used by other tools.
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Research and SSHRC
I am the campus rep for the SSHRC Trasnformation exercise. (See my blog at Transforming Knowledge. Here is a flyer that was designed for the discussions here at Mac. (Download file) It is an example of how I am trying to move away from PowerPoint presentations following Tufte, “Cognitive Style of PowerPoint”. A well designed handout really works better (but it costs more.)
Linguistica Annotation
Linguistic Annotation is a list of tools and formats for annotating and studying linguistic features. Included are things like TEI and Multitext. We need to review these tools against what we hope to have on TAPoR.
Annotating Web Pages, Survey
A Survey of Web Annotation Systems is a good short review of various systems for annotating web pages. The question I have is whether blogs are a type of web annotation that organizes around the annotation rather than the site?