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Motivating people to write the semantic web: A conversation with David Huynh about Parallax

On this week’s Innovators show I got together with David Huynh, whose work with MIT’s Project SIMILE wowed me last year. David recently joined Metaweb. His first project there, Parallax, creates a new way to browse Freebase, the structured wiki that also wowed me earlier last year. What struck me about SIMILE and Freebase was the [...]

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25.08.2008 11:18:02 - Jon Udell

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Collective mind probes

If you hang out in the blog-twitter-sphere you’ve doubtless seen recent mention of brand tags, Noah Brier’s “collective experiment in brand perception”. The site shows you brand logos and asks you to tag them with the first word or phrase that comes to mind. Then it shows you how others tagged those brands. It’s addictive. Here, [...]

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20.08.2008 23:07:20 - Jon Udell

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The “myth” of free standards

In the domain of Internet software world we take it for granted that standards documents are available for anybody to read. But in other domains that’s not the case, as I was reminded when I landed on this URL, where a copy of EN 303-5 — a European standard that governs “heating boilers for solid [...]

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19.08.2008 16:40:51 - Jon Udell

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Paving the cowpaths that lead to Government 2.0

Government 2.0 was the theme of couple of recent podcasts. On Phil Windley’s Technometria show, Britt Blaser discussed his Independence Year project, which places “the organizing tools of the best political campaigns” into the hands of citizens who want to organize themselves. And on my own show I spoke with W. David Stephenson, a veteran [...]

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18.08.2008 16:35:41 - Jon Udell

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A tale of two cities: crime reports in San Francisco and Washington DC

Consider two analytical reports from CrimeReports.com. San Francisco, last 30 days Washington DC, last 30 days A number of oddities leap out, but most of all look at the scale on the X axes. It runs to 30,000 for San Francisco, and only 800 for Washington DC. In absolute terms the numbers of thefts reported are comparable: 732 [...]

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15.08.2008 16:04:40 - Jon Udell

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Should I visualize more weather data, or just build an ark?

Last July the crazy weather prompted me to examine my subjective notion that things were, indeed, going crazy. However, a cursory analysis of NOAA’s historical temperature and precipitation data, available back to 1921 for the Concord, NH station that’s closest to me, didn’t seem to reveal any notable patterns. Well, we’re having another [...]

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13.08.2008 01:00:00 - Jon Udell

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Seeing more Olympics means seeing the Olympics differently

Thanks to the expanded coverage at nbcolympics.com, we’re not just seeing more sports, we’re seeing sports differently. The podium training for men’s gymnastics, for example, was a behind-the-scenes view that you’d never see on TV. Now that we’re into the team competitions, another new perspective is emerging — and it’s been a revelation. As we see [...]

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11.08.2008 18:07:22 - Jon Udell

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A space elevator might arrive sooner, and cost less, than you think

I’ve always thought that Arthur C. Clarke’s space elevator idea was intriguing, but until recently I never thought much more about it. Then I heard that Microsoft was co-sponsoring, and hosting, the 2008 Space Elevator Conference. This annual event isn’t a science fiction convention. It gathers a diverse group of passionate scientists and engineers who [...]

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08.08.2008 20:41:44 - Jon Udell

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Using technology to explain technology

Recently I gave a presentation, on a topic that is web-oriented and somewhat technical, to a group that is very much non-technical. I knew slides wouldn’t be an option, because there wouldn’t be a projector in the room. But arguably a slideshow would be the wrong thing anyway. I wanted people to focus on me, [...]

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07.08.2008 17:55:04 - Jon Udell

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Behind the scenes: podium training for men’s gymnastics in Beijing

As a former gymnast, I’ve been quadrennially frustrated by TV coverage of the Olympics. I don’t need the “up close and personal” portraits of a few popular gymnasts. And I don’t need Elfi Schlegel and Tim Daggett to point out some subtle things I already know, or to state the obvious that anyone can see [...]

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06.08.2008 17:11:57 - Jon Udell

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Motivating people to write the semantic web: A conversation with David Huynh about Parallax

Collective mind probes

The “myth” of free standards

Paving the cowpaths that lead to Government 2.0

A tale of two cities: crime reports in San Francisco and Washington DC

Should I visualize more weather data, or just build an ark?

Seeing more Olympics means seeing the Olympics differently

A space elevator might arrive sooner, and cost less, than you think

Using technology to explain technology

Behind the scenes: podium training for men’s gymnastics in Beijing

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