Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

This next generation of web services will likely adhere ... style called REST, the underlying architectural model of... It stands for "representational state transfer". Roy Fie... created the name in his PhD dissertation. Recently, Mark... Planetfred

Ghost Towns of the American West are what come to mind f... think of abandoned settlements. However, there are fasci... abandonments all over the world. Some of these have a cl... reason for being deserted, while the abandonment of othe... mystery. He

Did you know that one in every ten people in the world l... There is even a word for a “craze or a strong attracti... islomania!

You say… We say…
May 10th, 2007
Another visual experiment on tagging:
How do individuals use tags — compared to the communit ...
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a client side JSON document store. Perfect for webkit mo...
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Features
micro tiny storage without the nasty SQL: pure and d ...
... se syntax for searching and therefore finding of objects

Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So ... magazine has dubbed him “the Quantified Man”. Using ... sensors, mobile devices and ‘low friction’ tracking ... seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire bein...
Dancy consi

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its mos... retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter... It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day a...

In order to support data set owners to publish their dat... Data on the Web, as well as to support data consumers to... integrate Linked Data from the Web, the LATC project has... of open source toolkits that cover all stages of the Lin... publication

DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured info... Wikipedia and to make this information available on the ... allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedi... other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.

Kno.e.sis is a Center in the College of Engineering and ... Wright State University, founded as part of Ohio's Third...
Our cutting-edge research in the use of semantic and ser ...
Kno.e.sis research focuses on realizing a knowledge soci ...

Nominatim (from the Latin, 'by name') is a tool to searc... and address and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM p... geocoding). It can be found at nominatim.openstreetmap.org.

This page is part of the Prototype JavaScript framework ...
Overview | (...)
Prototype is a Java Script framework that aims to ease d ...
Its author and maintainer is Sam Stephenson.
... ess-apps.com/jordan/pages/Prototype%20Library%20Info.htm

Ultrawideband (UWB) technology offers great opportunitie... wireless multimedia networking. The WiMedia Alliance is ... open industry association that promotes and enables the ... regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperab... wideband (U

Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final d... Commune the military advances of the Versailles army wer... basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay.... nearly 100 years and the Situationists were once again m... altogether

JSON API allows you to retrieve and manipulate WordPress...
1. Provide a simple, consistent external interface
2. Create a stable, understandable internal implement ...
3. Enable new types of extensions for WordPress
This plugin was created at T

This plugin allows you to add highly customisable forms ... Wordpress Theme to your website that allows non-register... subscribers (also configurable) to submit and edit posts... posts are kept in "draft" until an admin can publish the... configurabl

This is a simple plugin to allow for access-restricted p... bloggers to discuss sensitive subjects without Google or...
After plugin activation, an administration panel is adde ...
Also upon activation, a section is added to the post cre ...
Users may b

Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan...
Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. ...
People understand what they can see. If a programmer ...
Thus, the goals of a programming system should be:
... turn it into som

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now.
It's a lot of this sort of thing.
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Futur ...
My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from ...
... or anything. I just hope to suggest

The power to understand and predict the quantities of th... be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipul...
When most people speak of Math, what they have in mind i ...
This mechanism of math evolved for a reason: it was the ...
We are no l

WURFL = Wireless Universal Resource File
The WURFL is an "ambitious" configuration file that cont ...

Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM) is the multi-discipl... with knowledge discovery from relational databases consi... tables. Mining data which consists of complex/structured... falls within the scope of this field, since the normaliz... of such obj

Critical Values for the Chi-Squared Distribution

Scaling phenomena permeate modern communication networks... there is considerable data to support the hypothesis tha... exhibits multi-scalar behavior, with correlations at mul... There is even evidence that traffic may be self-similar ...
In this sem

Command-line tools to manipulate OpenDocument files
OpenOffice itself can convert between a lot of different ...
I found out the two following projects:
* Unoconv: a command-line program which uses the Ope ...
... nt files. It works recursively if cal