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Watch mshook
* 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
she collected a bunch of Flickr photos of people spinning on the bull’s balls in Milan. Notice how that fulltext query effectively retrieves a pile of images, taken by different people, of the same curious custom:
If you are passing through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, you should spin around on the testicles of the bull mosaic found in the centre. Legend has it that this will bring you good luck!
Now try this query, which uses the same terms but looks at tags instead of the free text (title, description) associated with the photos. It finds nothing.
Cathy Marshall is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley; she has been at Microsoft for the last nine years. Cathy has long worked in the disciplinary interstices of computer science, information science, and the humanities, with occasional collaborations in the arts and the sciences. Her interests include digital archiving and long-term retrieval; how people use and share encountered information; how people read, annotate, navigate through, and interact with eBooks and other electronic publications; and spatial hypertext. She holds provocative views on topics like the Semantic Web and social tagging. Before coming to Microsoft, she was a long-time member of the research staff at Xerox PARC. She has delivered keynotes at WWW, Hypertext, Usenix FAST, CNI, VALA, ACH-ALLC, and a variety of other CS and LIS venues.
