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A conversation with Lucas Gonze about discovering, sharing, and experiencing music

It was a great pleasure to speak with Lucas Gonze for this week’s Innovators interview. Back in 2004, in Blogs + playlists = collaborative listening, I first wrote about webjay.org, the playlist-sharing service that Lucas founded and later sold to Yahoo. Later that year, I made an audio documentary about the people, the services, and [...]

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13.05.2008 16:37:22 - Jon Udell

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That word, syndication, I do not think it means what you think it means

Something about the title of this week’s Perspectives interview, OpenSearch federation with Search Server 2008, has been nagging me ever since I wrote it. In the interview, Richard Riley and Keller Smith describe how the new Microsoft search server can extend its reach by sending queries to other search services that can return results as [...]

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08.05.2008 15:04:10 - Jon Udell

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Calendar software is natural for reading, but not for writing

In response to a popular recent item — “We posted weekly.pdf to the website. Isn’t that good enough?” — Sarah Allen echoes my favorite Sergey Brin quote. Sergey said: “I’d rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write, than by forcing humans to write in ways computers can understand.” Sarah, citing weblog software as [...]

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05.05.2008 16:23:15 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Janis Dickinson about citizen science

On this week’s Interviews with Innovators I spoke with Janis Dickinson, director of citizen science at the Cornell Ornithology Lab. We talked about several of the lab’s projects that involve collection and analysis of volunteer observations about birds and bird habitats. Courtesy of the eBird project, for example, here is a view of first sightings of [...]

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05.05.2008 15:40:11 - Jon Udell

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Stonewall Farm, Darby Brook Farm, and the collaborative curation of data

Lately I’m obsessed with figuring out how to harness the cognitive surplus and put it to work doing better social information management. The other night I attended a kick-off meeting for a group interested in advancing the cause of local food production in our region. Inevitably the discussion turned to questions that require data to answer. [...]

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02.05.2008 20:07:24 - Jon Udell

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Negotiating shared responsibility for community information

This week’s Interviews with Innovators show is a conversation with Raymond Yee, author of the recently-published Pro Web 2.0 Mashups. The book is chock full of good examples. Even if you’re an experienced developer of mashups that involve Flickr, del.icio.us, Eventful, and the various mapping services, you’ll learn helpful strategies for using these services individually and [...]

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28.04.2008 18:02:02 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Ray Ozzie about Live Mesh

Ray Ozzie joined me for this week’s Perspectives show. It’s available there as audio plus a text transcript, and you can also watch the video on Channel 9. Ray opens the conversation by reflecting on his transition to Microsoft three years ago, and on the roles he and Craig Mundie will play as they jointly inherit [...]

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23.04.2008 15:04:13 - Jon Udell

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“We posted weekly.pdf to the website. Isn’t that good enough?”

It’s almost 10 years since I began producing and consuming data feeds, initially in RSS format. Although I regard the syndication of data feeds, in general, as a transformative technology, the concept still makes no sense to civilians and has little or no effect on their lives. In order to understand why not, and as a [...]

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22.04.2008 23:46:11 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Deepak Singh about science in the web 2.0 era

For this week’s Interviews with Innovators show I spoke with Deepak Singh. This interview extends what has become an ongoing series of discussions with folks who are applying the principles of web 2.0 to the practice of science. This was, of course, the original purpose of web 1.0. Other Innovators shows on this topic include conversations [...]

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21.04.2008 17:17:50 - Jon Udell

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Panoramic Westmoreland

For some reason I’ve never gotten around to doing stitched-together panoramic photos until recently. Today, with spring fever raging, I hopped on my bicycle, did one of my favorite circuits, and made this 360 view of Park Hill in Westmoreland: It turned out to be an interesting study in perception. If you check the enlarged view, [...]

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18.04.2008 02:42:56 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Lucas Gonze about discovering, sharing, and experiencing music

That word, syndication, I do not think it means what you think it means

Calendar software is natural for reading, but not for writing

A conversation with Janis Dickinson about citizen science

Stonewall Farm, Darby Brook Farm, and the collaborative curation of data

Negotiating shared responsibility for community information

A conversation with Ray Ozzie about Live Mesh

“We posted weekly.pdf to the website. Isn’t that good enough?”

A conversation with Deepak Singh about science in the web 2.0 era

Panoramic Westmoreland

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