chris @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Flickr: Import EXIF GPS information from your camera
Flickr supports now automatic import of GPS info in exif tags. Not that my camera had GPS … yet.
(tags: metadata photography mapping gps geotagging photos flickr)
chris @ August 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
THE ORWELL PRIZE
George Orwell's diaries exactly 70 years after they were written, starting Aug 9, 2008. A retroblog using WordPress.
(tags: writing literature blogging books uk politics)
chris @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
YouTube - Michael Wesch: An anthropological introduction to YouTube
Michael Wesch speaks at the US Library of Congress — not just a fantastic touching presentation, but I feel also captures something important about what the web is changing in how we live and interact.
(tags: web media video internet culture youtube wesch)
chris @ August 1, 2008 # One Comment
LibraryThing APIs - WikiThing
Lovely stuff. You could easily build a lookup of book translations thusly.
(tags: LibraryThing library books api)
Top 100 Language Blogs - Lexiophiles
(tags: language blogging blog)
Index Translationum: UNESCO Culture Sector
Database of book translations. Uses transliteration into the Latin alphabet (+diacritics).
(tags: reference literature database books translations)
chris @ July 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hacklog: Blogamundo » Blog Archive » Cuil’s Unicode Support… Or lack thereof.
Why Cuil is a far cry from being useful right now.
(tags: unicode web search)
Internet Evolution | Susan Crawford | Deep Packet Inspection Fuels Deep Controversy
Why DPI is not like other forms of advertising. Exceptionally clearl laid-out argument
(tags: web marketing DPI privacy blog)
Epeus’ epigone: Here […]
chris @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
No Secret Software!
Growing out of Christine Peterson’s talk at OSCON2008: the principle that data collected as part of civic processs must not be processed using secret software. This strikes me as one of the most lucid statements touching on an important issue for us all.
(tags: software video opensource policy e-voting)
chris @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
LiquidID
An OpenId provider combined with spam-protection: It doesn’t give out your real email address, but redirects.
(tags: OpenID socialnetworking security spam email)
Thai 101: A Thai eggcorn: อุ้งมือ - อุ้มมือ
The title says it all. Wow.
(tags: eggcorns linguistics thai)
chris @ July 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Review: Windows XP| Coding Sanity
“Upgrading from Vista to XP. Well-written. Probably soon of historical interest.
(tags: microsoft humour xp satire)
Blogger Help | How do I use the transliteration feature?
Blogger incorporates a minimalistic and highly useful input widget for several Indic scripts. Also available as an iGoogle gadget.
(tags: Google language transliteration Hindi Blogger Indic)
chris @ July 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Free Websites Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring
Free website monitoring application. Trying it out as my hoster hasn’t been very reliable lately.
(tags: internet tools web monitoring)
Official Gmail Blog: Fighting phishing with eBay and PayPal
How it works? DKIM, which is based on Domainkeys and publishing your signing policy. Something I wanted to blog, maybe - it’s one of […]
chris @ May 20, 2008 # Comments Off
doctype - Google Code
“Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers.” I hope it’s ok for wannabe-webpeople too. Project owner is Mark Pilgrim.
(tags: code css google howto html javascript documentation web development programming reference)
flot - Google Code
“Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library […]