September 2008
21 posts
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The Story of Muxtape →
What happened, and where we’re going. Muxtape is relaunching as a service exclusively for bands.
Sep 30th
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kung fu grippe - Better →
What worries me are the consequences of a diet comprised mostly of fake-connectedness, makebelieve insight, and unedited first drafts of everything. I think it’s making us small.
Sep 22nd
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Sep 18th
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Akelos
Testing PHP frameworks for a project at work. Akelos is looking good so far. It sticks very closely to Rails, so much so (it’s suggested) that template files and wiki content can be ported over. Well organised project site (with an acceptable design, I’m looking at you seagull, qcodo etc. etc.) Tidy, well documented code Sintags, a lightweight ERb-like templating language ...
Sep 15th
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Chyrp vs. Habari showdown
Still mulling over the pros and cons of switching to a self-hosted blog. This is the type of thing I start obsessing over, which is dysfunctional, I know. Looking through the default theme templates it’s clear that Habari sticks closely to the Wordpress ‘Loop’ model, while Chyrp is much more like Rails- or Django- templating. After working with the elegance that is the Tumblr...
Sep 8th
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WatchWatch
I’ve been watching the development of Habari and Chyrp for a while now. Tumblr showed me the way with getting into blogging, and for that I’m grateful. But it sometimes feels like pulling punches when you don’t own what you publish. Dilemma.
Sep 7th
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ListenOpen Notebook Science, Jean-Claude...
Sep 7th
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Ubiquity for Firefox, an experiment in connecting the Web with language (via)
Sep 6th
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Sep 5th
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allvoices.com →
The first open media site where anyone can report from anywhere
Sep 5th
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Sep 5th
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What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface... →
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Sep 5th
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Addictomatic instantly create a custom page with... →
Sep 5th
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Freebase Parallax: A new way to browse and explore data We can potentially browse ad infinitum
Sep 3rd
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“Child and animal play because they enjoy playing, and therein precisely lies...”
– Huizinga, J., Homo Ludens (1970) quoted in How To Be Free
Sep 3rd
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Sep 3rd
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Sep 3rd
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Sep 3rd
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Sep 2nd
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