Category: Technology
June 9, 2006
Load up yer iPods, it’ a Conference Conference
I’ve gathered links to podcasts of a bunch of the stuff I’ve attended, or been listening to over the past few months. Beyond Search: Social and Personal Ways of Finding Information [mp3] from BayCHI. Neil Hunt, Netflix; David Porter, Live365; Tom Conrad, Pandora; Kevin Rose, Digg; Joshua Schachter, del.icio.us; Rashmi Sinha, Moderator Radio Times’ Marty Moss-Coane talks with the venerable… 
November 23, 2005
NFAIS on Web 2.0
A little over a week ago I attended a NFAIS program entitled Web 2.0: Current Realities and a Look to the Future. It was a good time to jump on the Web 2.0 meme-wagon considering the barrage of Web 2.0-related news in the past few weeks (tagging and wikis on Amazon, and big developments with Microsoft and RSS are just…
July 28, 2005
Wireless Philly
The Philadelphia Business Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Daily News all have articles on the latest wireless pilot project launched Tuesday which gives a free year of wireless internet access to (one square mile of) Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood. Basically, the City of Philadelphia has formed a non-profit organization (Philadelphia Wireless) which will seek funding, review bids, and coordinate the implementation…
May 3, 2005
Peekaboom: von Ahn and the Future of ESP
I attended an interesting lecture today at Drexel given by Luis von Ahn, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and inventor of the ESP Game. He spoke about the ESP Game, its potential and uses, and a new game he has designed to aid in developing computer vision. About a year ago the ESP Game was spreading like wildfire. The…
March 7, 2005
Folksonomy vs. the Desktop Metaphor
With all the discussion of folksonomies, and especially tags, I’ve heard little said about the significant change in mindset that this form of categorization represents. It is only very recently in the history of personal computers that the conceptual shift has begun to swing away from strict hierarchical folder structures where a digital file shared the proprety of a physical…
November 1, 2004
If You Build It…
… they will put Linux on it. More evidence that if it has a processor someone is putting Linux on it. (Now I just need to get my hands on an Xbox, a USB flash drive, a USB-Xbox adapter, an old copy of MechAssault, three hairpins, and Richard Dean Anderson.) See also: Linux on iPod, Linux on GameCube, Linux on…
July 7, 2004
E-Ink and the Sony Libre
Read a review of the new Sony Libre, an e-book reader that makes use of the new e-ink “digital paper.” The technology is really brilliant, the kind of thing that could actually allow an “iPod for text” to be developed. J.D. Albert, one of E-Ink’s co-founders, gave a presentation to my Digital Libraries class last term. He passed around a…