Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
Via Boing Boing, Technorati (a search engine of Blogs) has a new “tag” service. (Shades of Taggle?) If your Blog tool of choice uses Categories, has a RSS/Atom feed, and pings technorati, then your done. If not, you can add Continue reading Technorati Does Tags
VM-enabled polycore computing and Lifting the lid on IBM’s Cell chip highlight the coming would of Multi-core systems, the how and the why of The Concurrency Revolution. Beyond MultiCore: So what do you you call it when you are planning Continue reading Virtual Machine enabled large-scale parallelism
This is not currently documented, but as a reward to loyal readers (all 3 of you), it is now possible to easily reuse existing tags by using a syntax of “http://del.icio.us/new/[your user name]”. It’s the “/new/” part that is “new”. Continue reading New posting interface to del.icio.us ; painlessly reusing your tags
ClerkClerk answers the question : What if the screenplay of “Clerks” had been written by the editors of the e-zine BoingBoing? (via Boing Boing) I feel inspired to re-write FalsePositives as if I was a /. Overdosed, ADD’s readalcoholic, info-junky. Continue reading beancounter parodies: ClerkClerk
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Via Boing Boing, Clay Shirky comments with a comparison of the advantages of folksonomies vs. “controlled vocabularies”. Key points I take from him: Controlled vocabularies are not extensible to the majority of cases where tagging is needed. folksonomies are better Continue reading Pro metadata will lose to folksonomy