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... I have decided to just post my nuggets that I have taken away from Robert B. Laughlin's The Crime of Reason.
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Most entertainment is the celebration of disposable knowledge. In fact, when we are relaxing we avoid useful information. This is why some people do not like my Facebook posts and Twitter updates. They are on these technologies to relax and I am confronting them with potential useful information. (Sorry, but I do not plan to stop. Just unfriend or unfollow me, I am really OK with it.) Let me quote from the book, "Soap operas are enjoyable because their intellectual maintenance costs are low."
All advertising is information you do not want to see. "Advertising is Fun's evil twin brother. The two go everywhere together." If you want to enjoy yourself from free you have to accept advertising.
...in their use of the commons, the Itza' break free of the textbook ‘resource exploitation' frame by means of one of the fundamental orientations of human cognition: the tendency to believe in supernatural entities. (See Atran's 2002 book In Gods we Trust.) Atran and Medin show that the Itza' do not treat forest resources as mere ‘objects of a payoff matrix' (as perhaps some of their neighbours do), but rather ‘as intentional, relational entities, like friends or enemies'. For the Itza', the spirits of the forest have supernatural powers of knowledge. Villagers believe that if they fail to respect the kind of reciprocal relationship with these spirits that would be expected of any human social relationship, they risk being punished. These beliefs are reflected in behaviour patterns that turn out to be the most sustainable of these three neighbouring ethnic groups.
* http://twit.tv/floss97 about http://exist.sourceforge.net/
* example: http://history.state.gov/
* http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4301.html
* http://www.amazon.com/Building-Social-Web-Applications-Establishing/dp/0596518757/
* interview with Jon Udell
* at ~22:30 - Jon: ~"an application" can be accomplished by a convention
* noticings (Flickr game) - Activity Stream - Oauth - OpenID
* http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4289.html
* panel discussion of spectrum: cognitive radio, FCC, policy, lots of complicated stuff
DITA also recognized ... that a small topic-specific DTD is easier to use and to validate than a big generic document-oriented DTD like DocBook. But the problem ... is, how do you manage the relationship between the DTDs, and how do you add a new DTD without having to rewrite your whole tool chain?
... First, it uses a simple mapping mechanism to create a new DTD as a "specialization" of an existing DTD. Second, it uses a trick based on the way XSLT works to enable a transform written for the base DTD to also work for the specialized DTD, and to allow you to write a transform for the specific properties of the new DTD that inherits transforms written for the old DTD without change.
DITA thus limits you in two ways. First, the relationship between new DTDs and existing DTDs can only be expressed by a very simple mapping mechanism. ... Also, existing XSLT transforms cannot be incorporated into the DITA tool chain; they have to be specifically written for DITA.
