May 2008
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The Lag Problem
I’ve been thinking some more about the conversation surrounding Spot.us, the crowdfunded journalism project that Digidave is working on.
I still have some reservations about the viability of a site like this, but at least I’ve narrowed it down to a core problem:
Lag: the time from when a proposal goes up, to the time it reaches a critical mass of funding.
Lag is the...
PullQuotes: a game for indexing news quotes of...
#Some early statistics
Blue = correct responses. Red = incorrect.
AP quotes are generally more “characteristic” of their speaker, and New York Times John Mccain quotes are more difficult to identify.
Also, this game obviously needs more difficulty levels.
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#Introduction
I first whetted my appetite for Freebase platform development with a...
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jQuery and the dream of horses
I had a funny dream last night. It’s hard to describe how much it shook me up, mostly because of how much I remembered, and still remember. Like everyone else I know, I almost never remember much about my dreams, and what I can remember is usually nonsense.
Not this time. I remember specific details:
I was outside, maybe in Utah. It reminded me of an Edward Abbey story.
I was...
Palmagotchi
(click-through to see the Flash presentation)
In Eric’s own words:
“Casual games are the fastest growing and perhaps largest genre of video games. The Tamagotchi, a game involving virtual pets, offers one powerful model for the educational use of these platforms. Tamagotchi’s simple design, along with the emotional bond between player and pet, results in a game that is...
Heck, I'll Fund That! Can Crowdfunded Journalism...
Congragulations to David Cohn for winning a Knight News Foundation award for his Spot Journalism project, now residing at the aptly titled Spot.Us.
However, don’t go popping bottles quite yet. In the shadow of the failure of well-funded, well-executed crowdfunding venture Cambrian House, crowdfunding remains anything but a proven model. It creates a new product for an non-existing market,...
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Finally, a use for humanity!
I recently talked to an engineer friend who works at Facebook, who was thinking out loud about the biggest problem facing the company - in his eyes, at least - which is the formidable growth of the site’s analytical processing requirements. There are plenty of well-documented ways for websites to save cycles, such as reducing requests, adding preload and postload components, and caching,...
Painting Eric's Fence: The Evolution of Business...
Eric Nehrlich is in trouble:
“A few months ago, I read a post calling for authors for a book called The Age of Conversation. It sounded interesting, so I put in my name and will be one of 275 people (listed below) contributing a single page 400-word essay on the theme of “Why Don’t People Get It?”
Here’s where I need your help. When I signed up several months ago, May 15th, the deadline...
LOST is a Darwinian retelling of Beowulf
I’ve had a few theories about LOST. Up until a couple weeks ago, the jury was out. Here’s a breakdown of what I thought were possible answers to the show:
I’m now 99% sure of exactly what the show is about. Now that I know, I probably won’t be as interested in following through with each episode.
So consider yourself spoiled.
My theory is that LOST is influenced...
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GraphPath …
… a little-language for analysing graph-structured data, especially RDF. The syntax of GraphPath is reminiscent of Xpath. It has a python implementation that can be teamed up with…
Quick Tip: Ipod Touch Reading Material (Without...
This is kind of a no-brainer, but I’ve been getting tons of mileage out of it, on my flights last week and while walking to school every day.
It’s simple - when I come across an essay or long blog post (or Zittrain’s awesome new book) I just copy and paste it into Gmail and e-mail myself. Then I make sure to sync my Ipod before I leave, so the e-mail gets downloaded.
This...
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The Two Missing Pieces From the Semantic News...
Two weeks before the Future of News conferece, there’s a new reminder of the news industry freefall. According to a recently published report, newspaper readership dropped several percentage points over the last year. Sunday circulation dropped even more than the average. That last bit surprised me - I still prefer my Sunday Times a la tree pulp. Now I’d like to shift attention back...