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Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
Technology Review: The 'Nature' of Net Viruses. Two Canadian ecologists at the University of Windsor in Ontario have been studying the way that Internet viruses proliferate to better determine the progress of a real-world intruder -- the spiny water flea, an insect that's native to Russia that has been invading the Canadian lake system for two decades.
[Tomalak's Realm]
8:47:52 PM 
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Mossberg explains RSS.
At least once a day, I tell someone, "unless you use a newsreader and RSS feeds, you'll always feel overwhelmed by all that news that's available on the Internet." RSS, I say. Newsreader, I say.
I've even set up a page on the rexblog where I can tell people to "go to the link over in the right hand column that says, 'Things I mentioned'" and follow the link to the page about how to use RSS and a newsreader.
Well, I just added a link on that page to WSJ personal technology guru Walt Mossberg.
Today, his column in the Wall Street Journal is called, "A Guide to Using RSS, Which Helps You Scan Vast Array of Web Sites"
Quote:
Whichever approach you choose, if you are a news-oriented Web surfer who wants the latest stuff from a broad range of sources, RSS can be a great boon.
Read it and get over whatever your fears of RSS and a newsreader may be.
(via: Nick Bradbury )
[rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog]
8:47:15 PM
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Parting words from a former cynic. Despite my long-held conviction that I would be a witty and engaging graduation speaker, I have been overlooked by the administration for my oratory skills. Instead, I will be among the hundreds of students sitting idly in the Edward Jones Dome at 10 a.m. [The Journal]
7:34:05 AM
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Al Gore, Webby Award, Internet, Journalists.
[I received this from a PR person, but consider it a mutual interest to post]
http://www.webbyawards.com
New York, NY (May 3, 2005) - The winners of The 9th Annual Webby Awards will be saluted alongside former Vice President Al Gore at the internet honors' ceremony in New York City on June 6th, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced today.
Because:
The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award: Former Vice President Al Gore
Setting the record straight on one of recent history's most persistent political myths, The Webby Awards will present Former Vice President Al Gore with The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the pivotal role he has played in the development of the internet over the past three decades. Vint Cerf, widely credited as one of the "fathers of the internet," will present Vice President Gore with the award.
As my page of Al Gore "invented the Internet" - resources documents, this myth has indeed been persistent. In fact, just very recently, the person who outright invented the story, Declan McCullagh ( "If it's true that Al Gore created the Internet, then I created the "Al Gore created the Internet" story."), was still propagating it in his columns ("... and Al Gore's apparently serious claim to have "created" the Internet.").
Note that extensive rebuttal in the comments, sadly does no good.
This leads to one of my questions to those infatuated with the idea of feedback and blogs fact-checking journalists: What if the "journalist" just doesn't care? What if he knows that what he writes, even if politically appealing fiction (in fact, especially if politically appealing fiction), will be sent to a huge number of people, and any corrections in comments or relatively trivial blogs will reach an insignificant audience? We have here a perfect case study of the phenomena. [Infothought]
7:33:07 AM
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Judging a Book by Its Contents. Amazon.com's Statistically Improbable Phrases aren't just a parlor game that condenses a book to its very essence. They're also a way to move curious readers through the retailer's vast catalog. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
7:33:07 AM
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Simple single sign-on. 
Today's 2.75-minute screencast features Nic Wolff's ingenious solution to the vexing problem of single sign-on to websites. I've mentioned it before, but I suspect few outside the geek community read those postings or "got it" if they did. We'll see if this narrated visual demonstration can manage to cross over. ...
[unmediated]
7:26:54 AM
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Your own 24/7 reality show.
iam is a research project by Tripp Millican . iam is a 24/7 point-of-view video, published to the web as serialized metafictional video blogs, in a layered/drill down UI, exploring narrative possiblities and new types of personal filmmaking.
The iam system creates an hybrid of personal television's reality show and scripted drama to be shared with other people. Being able to watch a piece that is not only shot in real-time but is also continuously being produced, is impossible. And trying to edit this much video is a formidable task.
 
So the iam system provides better summation tools and a UI suited to handle large amounts of video data: it auto-summarizes the video for the viewer, saving time and helping them understand the full video without having to watch it.
A button on the camera enables the "director" to tag moments during his/her day as "important". Software can analyze video for changes in scenery and lighting which further breaks apart video into separate scenes. By offering a stackable interface, the audience is able to quickly understand the complete content of a video in a way that was previously impossible.
>iam will be presented at PASS THROUGH, the thesis exhibition by the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinema-Television.
At the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, May 7-12, 2005.
Via we make money not art [unmediated]
7:26:47 AM
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