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{ Monthly Archives } November 2007

Moose 2008

Yup, it’s on again. North­ern Voice, that is, for 2008. Feb­ru­ary 22–23, 2008, at the Forestry Sci­ences Centre at UBC, where we held it last year. It will be the same format (Moose Camp uncon­fer­ence on Fri­day, con­fer­ence on Sat­urday), with some sort of party on the Thursday even­ing. More details will appear on the […]

2007 11 11 Conference
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Web 2.0: Technical

The tech­nical com­pon­ent of Web 2.0 includes XML, Ajax, APP, vari­ous pro­gram­ming lan­guages, plug-ins and wid­gets, and the REST archi­tec­ture. All of these have a role to play in sup­port­ing the web sites that incor­por­ate Web 2.0 fea­tures, while many pred­ate the Web 2.0 phe­nomenon. There are far too many inter­est­ing tech­nical fea­tures for me […]

2007 11 09 Presentations
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Physical Insights

Lest any­one think that phys­i­cists don’t care about the real world, Bob Park pub­lishes a short weekly news­let­ter that touches on sub­jects ran­ging from sci­entific hoaxes to incon­sist­en­cies in the way the U.S. Admin­is­tra­tion handles vari­ous issues. It mostly con­cen­trates on sci­ence and tech­no­logy, but not only. The Fri­day, Octo­ber 26, 2007 news­let­ter also discusses […]

2007 11 08 Books
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Web 2.0: Social and Collaboration

The social and col­lab­or­a­tion part of Web 2.0 mostly revolves around the con­cepts of social net­work­ing, user-generated con­tent, and the long tail. Social Cloud Social net­work­ing is the idea that people can meet and talk and organ­ise their social lives using the Web instead of, or in addi­tion to, more tra­di­tional meth­ods such as talk­ing face […]

2007 11 08 Presentations
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Web 2.0: Buzzwords

Like any hyped tech­no­logy, Web 2.0 has a lot of buzzwords. They include the tag (as in tag cloud), the folk­sonomy, the long tail (more about that in a later post), and social soft­ware. Social soft­ware is there to sup­port net­work­ing and social activ­it­ies via the inter­net. Lots of people spend lots of time interacting […]

2007 11 07 Presentations
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Non-Friday Cat Post

If you have cats, or even if you don’t, this video is worth watch­ing. From Lauren Cooney’s This was my morn­ing…. This is often my morn­ing as well.

2007 11 06 Family
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