Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Videos in User-System Interaction (USI)

Under the leadership of Pacific Northwest National Labor...
The R&D Agenda presents recommendations to advance the s ...
* The science of analytical reasoning
* Visual representations and interaction techniques
... Additional Reading (84K PDF)

Quercus is Caucho Technology's fast, open-source, 100% J... of the PHP language (requires JDK 1.5).

Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data....
The ten main classes
000 Computer science, information & general works 100 Ph ...
Highlights
... ta is reusable under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license

The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
Each group

McDonald’s restaurants with staff predominantly aged o... profitable

The imperatives of the link economy
At a Berkman center session last week about supporting i ...
1. All content must be transparent: open on the web with ...
2. The recipient of links is the party responsible for m ...
... networks to help the recipients

ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) is a non-propri... permissions tool that puts content owners in control of ... content in a way that is conducive to developing new onl... models, putting new, high-quality content on the net and... benefits of

The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the Intern... fighting the link and the link is the basis of the Inter... Perez-Pena's New York Times story today:
Tom Curley, The A.P.'s president and chief executive ...
Them's fightin' words: quoting

People who go to aggregator sites don’t really click t... original story. But he misses the profound and game-chan... that fact: They don’t want to read the original story.... changed on the Internet, where information comes faster ...
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Earlier today we wrote about the AP's plans to DRM the n... what a backwards plan it was. The story is getting lots ... with many pointing to a NY Times report, where the AP's ...
"If someone can build multibillion-dollar businesses ...
First of al

Arnon Mishkin wrote a post last Thursday on paidContent ...
Arnon Mishkin:
The vast majority of the value gets captured by aggr ...
Jeff Jarvis:
... ates come down to opposing sides exchanging half-truths.

People who “get the web” will explain to you that th... web have everything to do with linking and getting linke... links one can get, the better off one is. Few disagree w...
So when the AP and the newspaper owners demanded that th ...
Well, the d

In 2007 in my lab at Berkeley, Tamar Kushnir and I disco... preschoolers can use probabilities to learn how things w... lets them imagine new possibilities. We put a yellow blo...
Then we gave the children the blocks and asked them to l ...
We also did

SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital ... schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services... is that the collections which must inter-operate are oft... across individual, community, and institutional stores. ... to provide

CWM - Closed World Machine
CWM is a popular Semantic Web program that can do the fo ...
* Parse and pretty-print the following RDF formats: ...
* Store triples in a queryable triples database
... ieving resources, all using an extensible builtins

How to get yourself sacked using Facebook
Personally, I’ve been trying to avoid having too many ...
It can be useful, though, for helping you sack those not ...
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Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, whe...
Since the PHP allows you to create an OLE compatible COM ...
Before we start, let’s introduce input parameters of t ...
* $file – (string) absolute path to the Excel data ...
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When the budget for rebuilding Birmingham City Council's... from £580,000 to £2.8m, did nobody say 'let's try free... instead'?

Twenty-five years after the creation of the cell phone, ... Motorola imagined what cell phones might look like in an... years. The Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) team created ... sketches that look beyond what is possible today and ima... possibiliti

We will widen the ownership of homes

HP Rules is a rule engine that lets you separate conditi...
This article demonstrates how to:
* Install PHP Rules and execute rules stored in text ...
* Create your own rules, starting from a particular case
... * Evaluate a rule stored in a

qooxdoo (pronounced [’ku:ksdu:]) is a comprehensive an... framework for creating rich internet applications (RIAs)... object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build im... cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS nor DOM knowled... qooxdoo inc

New ID cards are supposed to be 'unforgeable' - but it t... minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data

The API: Color Scheme Designer for your web
The Color Scheme Designer 3 online application can be ea ...

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User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.