I noted before the discussion on machine tags. Another example has come about with Revish, the book review community, pulling in images from Flickr that use the book:isbn=********** tag. An example page is Bulletproof Ajax. From their blog: There are only a few people using this at Flickr at the moment, but there are a lot of fun possibilities. If you've tried a recipe from a cookery book, knitted something from a pattern in a book, live near a real world location used in a book, or know an author - if you've taken photos of any of these things and put them on Flickr, why not add a machine tag with the ISBN of the book they relate to?

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Once referred to as “tripletags” supposedly but now called Machine Tags, due to Flickr’s adoption of their use for geocoding, etc. From machinetags.org: Machine tags, or triple tags, are tags that are made up of three parts (namespace:predicate=value) in order to give extra information. Machine tags have been in use for a while now on sites such as Flickr and Upcoming.org to make information (such as location and event information) accessible to both machines and humans.

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While I still haven’t gotten time to fully grok dchud’s Open Data is not the point, some more posts regarding the importance of open data have come about. While I agree with dchud that it’s definitely not the whole story, it is an important one. Alf over at Hublog posts some of the replies he’s gotten from services when trying to access his own data or aggregate data. The general response is “sorry, that data is too valuable”.

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Primality Regex - check a number to determine if it's prime Vegetable Gardening In Containers - Almost any vegetable that will grow in a typical backyard garden will also do well as a container-grown plant. Vegetables which are ideally suited for growing in containers include tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, green onions, beans, lettuce, squash, radishes and parsley. Parasite - Camping app developers no longer have any reason to envy their Ruby on Rails friends: Parasite brings generators, environments, and other Rails-y goodness to the world of Camping app development.

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A ways back I looked into supporting campus authentication in some apps I was brainstorming and found the information rather lacking for our campus. It was also only IIS supported at the time which made me feel a little less secure about the whole thing. They now have an apache module and are working on single sign-on but I’ve scrapped any plans. However, I am rather impressed by what CASE is doing.

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If you run wordpress make sure you have the latest version as there was a compromised download on their site. If you use the SVN update method then you should be unaffected but there is a new version regardless. I just updated here via SVN without a problem.

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HOWTO OpenID Trac plugin - Gentoo Linux Wiki - johnaugust.com » Seven Things I Learned from World of Warcraft - I have few regrets about giving up Warcraft. But in retrospect, I did learn some valuable things from my time in Azeroth, lessons that have stuck with me. So I thought I?d share a few. CodeIDE - Browser-based IDE. Gender diversity at web conferences (kottke.org) - From this list, it seems to me that either the above concerns are not getting through to conference organizers or that gender diversity doesn't matter as much to conference organizers as they publicly say it does.

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Liblime acquired Katipo Communications' Koha Division. The press release reads like PR but had a nice tidbit: The acquisition also highlights one of the unique features of an open-source business and development model: "Katipo's Koha customers don't need to worry about switching to a new ILS," explains Rachel Hamilton, Director of Katipo Communications. "With open source, switching vendors doesn't mean switching software. I'm confident that LibLime will provide our Koha libraries with the professional service they have come to expect.

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An interesting read on the recent reaction in Boston: This remix of Puritanism and the neo-liberal imaginary (obsessed with what Ericson dubs "the myth of certainty and security") is a necessary but not sufficient set of conditions for declaring this peculiar "state of emergency." The remaining variable is demographic. It pits an aging, declining and reactive population (the third or fourth generation descendants of Irish, Italian, German, and English immigrants) straining to secure the slipping remnants of a mid-20th Century state-centered set of expected benefits, against a more vigorous and adaptable creative subculture within the Millennial Generation.

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An article from The Chronicle about one professor’s experience using Tor on campus: Caught in the Network The Chronicle Review - From the issue dated February 9, 2007 But it is being used all around the world, by people in countries that restrict their access to information, by corporate whistle-blowers, and by digital-rights activists. It's even being used by average people like me, as a way to keep innocuous and personal online activities private.

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