Seb's Open Research

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Introducing blam! and blaxm! Alf has baked some of the ideas of Structured Blogging into a tool called blam! that produces nice structured book/CD/DVD reviews upon filling a form. He writes blam! has become a templating tool for writing reviews of (so far) books, CDs and DVDs. You enter the ASIN/ISBN number of the item you're reviewing, then fill in the name and URL of your weblog, your Amazon associates ID if you have one, and your review. blam! uses Amazon's web services to look up the metadata for that item, then produces the HTML you need to paste into your weblog, including an image of the item, referral links to Amazon, and metadata that will allow sites like allconsuming.net to pick up your review (like this one). This tool works in conjunction with blaxm!, which is a review repository. Neat. What do you think? []  links to this post    7:29:09 AM

Monday, March 17, 2003

French translation of Towards Structured Blogging (french) La Grande Rousse m'a offert de traduire Towards Structured Blogging, offre que je me suis évidemment empressé d'accepter. La Grenouille, qui passait sans doute par là, a traduit les images. Le tout a été bouclé en 24 heures. Mille merci à tous les deux! Sans plus tarder, voici:  Vers un carnet Web structuré. (C'est également à la Rousse que l'on doit La cognitique personnelle et son utilisation en recherche, version française de Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research) What do you think? []  links to this post    6:51:07 AM

Sunday, March 16, 2003

Thomas Sowell. "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." Mark Twain. "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." [Quotes of the Day] What do you think? []  links to this post    10:55:44 AM   The Journey to the East David Harris talks about a book by Hesse that seems quite interesting. Just for kicks I've created a Hermann Hesse channel on TopicExchange. With a little luck, other Hesse aficionados will show up there over time... The Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse. A narrator tells a story about a journey of undefined purpose and to an undefined location with an ill-defined community of like-minded people. Even the story itself may not be true. But all of that is beside the point in this short novella of Hesse's. The true journey is the narrator's into his own mind with a destination of greater self-awareness and a better understanding of his place in a society. Hesse shows the influence of Eastern philosophy on his thought, just as in many other novels of his. Within the text, there feels like the germ of a study of intellectualism that also flows through the Glass Bead Game - perhaps this was a testing ground for some of his ideas... This is definitely a book I shall reread many times to try to come to my own greater self-awareness concerning the issues that the Journey's narrator faces. [David Harris' Science and Literature] What do you think? []  links to this post    10:44:23 AM

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