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Outlook Series | Semantics

This site has a concise, realistic and practical set of examples for situations where good semantic infrastructure can make the difference in either success of failure in critical activity.

I highly recommend readers to study the approach of this site and even improve upon it. In part, the more calm, reasoned approaches like this that are made towards researching, developing and deploying semantically adept technologies and training, the more we will get from the massive capitalization project that is the Internet.

Coleran Reel 2008.06 HD from Mark Coleran on Vimeo.

Welcome to Chromium OS!

Our goal here is to give you an idea of how to get started.

Note: For all instructions, make sure you download the client into a local directory. Placing the source and compiling on a network partition will drive you nuts.

Note: These build instructions will evolve over time as the build system is improved. Make sure to periodically check back for the latest information.

Building: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os

Sourcecode: http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/getting-the-chromium-os-source-code

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>Source: http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/10/04/camouflage-art-by-liu-bolin/

No comment, sometimes cool speaks for itself.

I’ll be back to more regular posting next week.

Thanks for your patience!

Don

http://wikidot.com

Wikis can be fun to use.

When I first encountered wikis I thought that I had found the answer to a problem that had been troubling me for awhile about making web pages. Among the chief complaints I had heard about web pages and making them, while I would be helping a user get oriented to the Internet, was how much they dreaded having to deal with HTML and how much of a hassle formatting text was.

Of course, this was when WYSIWYG editors and built-in online design tools were still in the early stages of development and collaboration on web sites was mostly limited to email submission forms. Wikis offered the possibility that a non-expert could log into a site and create something.

Now it’s years later and wikis are ubiquitous. However, the idea that they are for ‘just anybody’ never really took off the way I had envisioned. They still require learning sometimes obscure markup languages and the themes can sometimes be quite ugly.

Where they can be extraordinarily useful, they do very well. As a place for users and developers to develop tutorials and user guides collaboratively, wikis are without many challengers. Almost every new online project includes a wiki for documentation.

A few examples of wikis that work:

• http://emacswiki.org
• http://wikipedia.com
• http://cliki.net

By no means comprehensive, these are just a few wikis that I use regularly.

For my own personal, private use, I don’t really use wikis much. My writing tends to be more directed without the sidetrails and loops that occur when a wiki editor is your main tool, usually because by the time I’m committing to page, I’ve already done most of the structural work. Emacs provides for wiki modes and wiki type modes with automatic CamelCase link creation and the like, but it also has many other and more powerful tools for that type of writing.

For blog posting, Zemanta and other tools are very useful and help me post without having to resort to any markup language other than HTML, which I am familiar enough with now to write comfortably with.

My hosting account includes a Mediawiki style wiki that is auto installable. I installed it and did some basic configuration, you can find it here at http://donaldlindsay.net/wiki .

Wikidot.com, however, offers an interface that I like better, so I may be linking to that for content that I can’t make work in Wordpress, you can find my wikidot pages here at http://donlindsay.wikidot.com .

If I find that I’m using the wiki alot, I’ll fix the links for a more seamless experience, but for now, I think this arrangement will work.

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Android 2.0 Developer Highlights

The ‘Droids are ready.

The iPhones are watching the pickets. The watchfires are lit and the coffee is flowing. Rumblings in the distance indicate that a new player is about to take the field, but so far, only a few early adopters have seen the foe face-to-face.

Mobile computing is about to meet it’s new partner: Android.

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Mozilla Positioned To Grow

It’s no secret anymore that Mozilla, a veritable spin off company from the original Netscape team, is poised to run the netbook wasteland.

With many vendors looking to make the most of emerging javascript enabled desktops and ‘browser-client’ centric applications, nobody but Mozilla has the experience, design teams and momentum to really establish itself as a market leader, for what that’s worth.

Transitions from the dark horse to the market leader, especially for Open Source enthusiasts, are made much easier when Mozilla ponys up to the table with applications like Raindrop, designed as an alternative to the forthcoming Google Wave release.

Additional applications like, of course, Firefox and Thunderbird, but especially Bespin, will allow design tools that are built right into the ‘clutter’ desktop for an unprecedented level of ease, integration and customization on tomarrow’s GUI.

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A Natural 20 Always Hits

Surface computers will revolutionize how people us computers today. One of the problems we face as computer users is that our devices aren’t really made to share. Desktops, laptops, smartphones, etc., are essentially 1 user devices that are connected to one another.

A Surface computer changes that. As this Demo shows, a small group of people can gather around this computer and play a game like D&D, which, unlike World of Warcraft and other online MMPORG, is as much about your acting skills as your adeptness with a mouse and keyboard.

As they become more available, they will open the door to the Internet and computing for many disabled people and persons who, so far, prefer the shared experience of computing.

Score 1 for Microsoft.

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