Archive for the ‘General’ Category
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  • Mar, 07

Changing metaphors: Peer to Peer Identity and OpenID

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  • Mar, 07

Aggregate Intelligence and the Singularity

There is an idea frequently referred to as Technological Singularity. Simply put, the concept is that pace of technological progress has been accelerating throughout human history; going a little faster all the time. Eventually the theory goes; technology will be progressing so fast we’ll break though the barrier of humanity itself, cultural light speed. The […]

  • 28
  • Feb, 07

Identity Philosophy 1

I have been working away for a few weeks trying to fuse OpenID-type technology with peer-to-peer-type technology. P2PID I like to call it.
I’m pretty sure such a beast is the solution to a lot of the grief seen on the net today. Issues like credibility, who to trust, peer review, not having big companies control […]

  • 30
  • Jan, 07

Software links fixed.

After much slacking off, I finally fixed the links to the various bits of software I released way back when on this blog. Profuse apologies for slacking off on supporting these things, more evidence that communities are better at knowledge generation then individuals. Especially lazy distracted individuals.
Dircaster seems to have taken on a life of […]

  • 29
  • Jan, 07

Wikipedia Link Tracking

I want a way to track all my clicks when I read the Wikipedia, and ideally your clicks too. Who looked at what article, when and from where they clicked in and out.
Think of all the cool things that should be possible with that data. Figuring out which articles had strong connections to one another […]

  • 10
  • Jan, 07

The future is PPV

Read an interesting interview with Leo Grillo about the details surrounding Zyzzyx Road, the movie reported to have the lowest box office receipt total in history ($30USD). It makes me think we’ll see something significant soon that hybrids the business models of sites like CDBaby and Magnatune and applies them to distributing indie movies.

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  • Dec, 06

Nanobiotechnology

Alan Goldstein on Nanobiotechnology.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this article since I read it a few days ago. His use of the pace maker example is great.
The article itself is perhaps a bit overly dramatic but the idea of breaking the carbon barrier and exchanging information bidirectionally between cells and machines does […]

  • 05
  • Dec, 06

TV from here

Television is changing. Personal Video Recorder technology combined with the Internet is letting people watch what they want when they want it. I believe ultimately this will lead to major positive changes in the content.

  • 05
  • Dec, 06

Thoughts on OpenID

I was reading about OpenID today and got excited. Email based verification has lots of problems and OpenID solves them well opening lots of exciting new possibilities.

  • 21
  • Dec, 05

On tagging

Wow, I guess tagging got hot. Yahoo bought Flickr, and now Del.icio.us too.
Some thoughts. I use both of these sites heavily and there seems to be a lot of concern that Yahoo is going to stick ads all over everything and generally muck things up. I’m not sure. Admittedly merging Yahoo’s ID system with […]

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  • Sep, 05

captioner! now supports flickr!

Thanks to the wicked cool people at Flickr! and their API and Dan Coulter’s phpFlickr wrapper for said API, captioner! now supports Flickr! photos directly.

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  • Aug, 05

captioner!

After way less testing then probably necessary, I’m opening captioner! to the public. It’s some javascript that lets you add comic style captions/text balloons to images on the net.
Check it out, your comments are welcome.

  • 15
  • Apr, 05

Aggregato: Invitation Only

To try and avoid killing the site under its own success I’ve returned Aggregato to an invitation only system. It can handle plenty more users but I’m having trouble sleeping worrying that some eager Slashdot editor will do me a favor and totally swamp it. Please continue to use the site and invite your friends.
I’ve […]

  • 25
  • Mar, 05

Aggregato: A tag based RSS feed aggregator

Announcing Aggregato, a RSS feed aggregator organized with tags.
You can assign feeds multiple tags, which makes very flexible display options possible.
I had been using BradBury Software’s FeedDemon for reading RSS feeds, but had started to drown in information. Inspired by the whole folksonomy explosion and the awesome Magpie RSS parser for PHP, I have […]

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  • Mar, 05

How to Save the Music Business: Idea #1

The Future
In the future, downloading is good. In the future, musicians and when available their record labels, will be whatever it takes to get you to download their music. The most profitable music will be the music that makes a profound emotional connection with its fans, not disposable of-the-moment pop.
In the future, CDs will […]

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  • Dec, 04

dirCaster v0.4: Podcasting php script

Another version of dirCaster is released.
dirCaster is a php script that allows one to very easily start Podcasting mp3 files from their web host. This allows original content creators to easily provide a feed for iPodder, jPodder, etc.
This release fixes a bad bug that broke everything on filenames that contained things like a ‘&’ […]

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  • Nov, 04

dirCaster v0.3: Podcasting php script

I have released an updated version of dirCaster, just bug fixes regarding the naming of files I should have done weeks ago. In my defence, I was moving to the other side of the Atlantic.
dirCaster is a php script that allows one to very easily start Podcasting mp3 files from their web host. This […]

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  • Oct, 04

WPBT v0.5: BitTorrent tracker for WordPress

WPBT: An easy to install PHP based BitTorrent tracker for WordPress 1.2.1.

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  • Oct, 04

dirCaster v0.1: Podcasting php script

dirCaster v0.1 is a php script that allows one to very easily start Podcasting mp3 files from their web host. This allows original content creators to easily provide a feed for iPodder, jPodder, etc.
Drop the dircaster.php script into a directory and it will generate an RSS feed suitable for iPodder, etc based off the […]

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  • Oct, 04

First post!

So I guess I’m jumping on the bandwagon and starting a personal weblog. Hello.
The plan is get some opinion off my chest and offer assorted programming gizmos that are a byproduct of my existence.