If like me you ever wondered about the differences between those different types of standard (usually employed for webfeeds), here is a definition by Ben Hammersley taken from his slides at ETeach 2005. RSS 2.0 RSS 1.0 Atom Simple, adhoc, temporary, loosely defined data, very loosely defined s...
Mapping, GIS and Augmented Reality
A very relevant take about mapping, GIS and Augmented Reality in O'Reilly.net by Tyler Mitchell (via the goewanking mailing list). I want to see AR applied to my area of interest - mapping. While certainly AR has some strong ties to locational information in general, it could serve a very specific ...
amaztype: an amazon visualizer
(via) amaztype is an Amazon visualiser. The search term is processed ad turned into a collage in the shape of the word you input using cover art from Amazon. You can click on the books and they show up in amazon. I tried with the word 'cyberpunk': ...
A lack of think tank in France
A paper in the Le Journal du Net deals with the lack of think tank in France. According to them, here are the figures: Region Number of think tank Number of think tank employees Europe 149 4950 France 7 145 7 is not a lot and it's less than Germany (23), the UK, (16), Belgium (12) and Austr...
Johnny jetpack
Do you know Johnny jetpack? Johnny Jetpack is a 7 and a half foot tall puppet/dummy attached to a giant water rocket backpack. When launched, he obtains heights of 70-90 feet and speeds of 50+ miles per hour in about one second. He then plummets earthward in a dramatic fashion. This plummet include...
CatchBob map in terms of \"Places\"
Here is an attempt of the CatchBob map where I just left the "Places", that is to say, zones that are meaningfull in terms of socio-cultural interactions in the CatchBob context like buildings, corridors... Of course I did not took into account lots of factors (like rooms) because of the low accura...
Virtual World Pictures
A Flickr for vitual worlds (allowing you to share picture/snapshots taken in virtual environment(games) seems to be a trend recently. For instance, Snapzilla allows everyone in the virtual world Second Life to share their snapshots with the world, directly through SL. In the same line, Phil Torrone...
eTech2005
eTech 2005 started yesterday. There is a wiki about it, with some coveragre information. Lots of interesting people there! I wish I could attend it, but... ...
Estimating Interrater Reliability
I am into estimating interrater reliability lately. Here is a good summary :A Comparison of Consensus, Consistency, and Measurement Approaches to Estimating Interrater Reliability by Steven E. Stemler This article argues that the general practice of describing interrater reliability as a single, un...
CatchBob experiment 11
Here is the path of today's player C: Maybe she disappeared at some point. ...