A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport is a NYT article that tells the story of an English novelist, Will Self, who recently visited NYC, and walked from JFK to Manhattan.
The New York Times’ article I mentioned in today’s class. Check it out
In light of the fact that we will be discussing Internationalization issues in class this coming week it is timely that the NY TImes is running an article in today’s paper on a well-publicized effort to bring inexpensive laptops to children in developing countries.
Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.
Tagography is a flickr discussion page centering on case studies in the use of tagging.
Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense
From Front Page of Today’s New York Times:
From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web and the links that weave them together, computer scientists and a growing collection of start-up companies are finding new ways to mine human intelligence…
Social Software:
delicious
myspace
flickr
wikipedia
YouTube
Mapping the Database:
They Rule
Tagnautica
Personal Kyoto
1000 icons
Psychogeography in Debord’s words: Critique of Urban Geography
Is there psychogeography today? Here are a few links for possibilities. Some of these artists directly reference the Situationists and others do not. What do you think? Add your own ideas/projects in the comments section…
Vito Acconci
Janet Cardiff
Francis Alys
Urban Explorers
Center for Land Use Interpretation
bureau d’etudes
Kanarinka
PdPAL
Bedouin
Conflux
Mapquest: Critical Cartography
From the O’reilly blog: Nokia today announced the release of WidSets, a mobile widget platform available for Java MIDP 2.0 phones, including of course non-Nokia phones. Put short, WidSets is for the mobile what Netvibes is for the browser.
I’ve played around with WidSets for an hour on both my SonyEricsson K750i as well as a more recent - and higher resolution - Nokia N80, and I must say that I am impressed. Even at the 176 x 220 pixels on the K750i navigation is a charm.
WidSets already has an impressive number of widgets available for use (mostly all based on RSS feeds) and creating new based on the RSS template is easy. More advanced widgets can be created using the already available WidSets SDK, seemingly borrowing a lot of the (good) ideas from Opera Platform.
The release of WidSets has the potential to stand out as the starting point for a debate on the standardization of widgets, and I’d be surprised if it’s not picked up on soon by W3C or an independent ad-hoc standards body. Already today we have the abovementioned Netvibes, Mac OSX Dashboard, Opera Platform, and more recently even Chumby and now WidSets.
The counterpoint could obviously be that the pipe is enough of a standard, giving further traction to RSS and the arguments Ray Ozzie put forward at this spring’s Etech.