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BlogsTags > historyFour short links: 8 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 8, 2013 How to Build a Working Digital Computer Out of Paperclips (Evil Mad Scientist) — from a 1967 popular science book showing how to build everything from parts that you might find at a hardware store: items like paper clips, little … Four short links: 6 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 6, 2013 Nautilus — elegantly-designed science web ‘zine. Includes Artificial Emotions on AI, neuro, and psych efforts to recognise and simulate emotions. A Short Essay on 3D Printing — This hands-off approach to culpability cannot last long. If you design something to … Four short links: 25 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Alcatraz — package manager for iOS. (via Hacker News) Scarfolk Council — clever satire, the concept being a UK town stuck in 1979. Tupperware urns, “put old people down at birth”. The 1979 look is gorgeous. (via BoingBoing) Stop Designing … If you’ve ever wondered where those O’Reilly animal covers come from …By Mac SlocumApril 2, 2013 The exchange often goes like this: Stranger: “Where do you work?” Me: “O’Reilly Media.” Stranger: “O’Reilly …” [Long pause while he or she works through the various "O'Reilly" outlets — the TV guy, the auto parts company.] Me: “You know … Four short links: 20 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 20, 2013 Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data (Scribd) — The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European … Four short links: February 21 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 21, 2013 Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of US Trade Secrets (Whitehouse, PDF) — the Chinese attacks on Facebook, NYT, and other large organisations are provoking policy responses. WSJ covers it nicely. What is this starting? (via Alex Howard) BodyMedia FitLink … Four short links: 15 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 15, 2013 Ed Startups in a Nutshell (Dan Meyer) — I couldn’t agree with Dan more: The Internet is like a round pipe. Lecture videos and machine-scored exercises are like round pegs. They pass easily from one end of the pipe to … Four short links: 9 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 9, 2013 BitCoin in 2012, By The Numbers — Over the past year Bitcoin’s value when compared to the US Dollar, and most other currencies, increased steadily, though there was a large spike and subsequent dip in August. Interestingly, the current market … Four short links: 8 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 8, 2013 13 Design Trends for 2013 — many of these coalesced what I’ve seen in websites recently, but I was particularly intrigued by the observation that search’s growing importance to apps is being reflected in larger searchboxes. How Twitter Gets In … Four short links: 3 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 3, 2013 Community Memory (Wired) — In the early 1970s, Efrem Lipkin, Mark Szpakowski and Lee Felsenstein set up a series of these terminals around San Francisco and Berkeley, providing access to an electronic bulletin board housed by a XDS-940 mainframe computer. … Four short links: 18 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 18, 2012 Credibility Ranking of Tweets During High Impact Events (PDF) — interesting research. Situational awareness information is information that leads to gain in the knowledge or update about details of the event, like the location, people aff ected, causes, etc. We found … Four short links: 14 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 14, 2012 Which Science to Fund: Time to Review Peer Review? (Peter Gluckman) — The study concluded that most funding decisions are a result of random effects dominated by factors such as who was the lead reviewer. In general the referee and … Four short links: 13 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 13, 2012 Top 10 Chinese Internet Memes of 2012 — most are political, unlike Overly Attached Girlfriend. Evaporative Cooling — thoughtful piece about the tendency of event quality to trend down unless checked by invisible walls. (via Hacker News) What Was It … Serial fiction: Everything old is new againBy Alice ArmitageDecember 10, 2012 2012 may be remembered as the year that digital publishing brought serial fiction back to the reading public. Readers in the 19th and early 20th centuries often read fictional stories in installments in newspapers and magazines: books were simply too … Four short links: 4 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 4, 2012 James Burke at dConstruct — transcription of his talk. EPIC. I love this man and could listen to him all day long. (via Keith Bolland) Mechanism Design on Trust Networks (CiteSeerX) — academic paper behind the Ripple Bitcoin-esque open source … Four short links: 30 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 30, 2012 Kids Use Minecraft to Design School — “Students have been massively enthusiastic, with many turning up early to school to work on their Minecraft designs and they continue to do so at home too.” Also see the school’s blog. Napster, … Four short links: 15 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 15, 2012 Atkinson Dithering in Real Time — a Processing app that renders what the video camera sees, as though it were an original Mac black and white image. Patching Binaries — a patch for a crashing bug during import of account … Four short links: 4 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 4, 2012 As We May Think (Vannevar Bush) — incredibly prescient piece he wrote for The Atlantic in 1945. Transparency and Topic Models (YouTube) — a talk from DataGotham 2012, by Hanna Wallach. She uses latent Dirichlet allocation topic models to mine … Four short links: 19 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 17, 2012 /r/Scholar — Reddit board for tracking down research articles of interest. sweet.js (GitHub) — macros for Javascript. (via Brendan Eich) The Rapture of the Nerds (Charlie Stoss, Cory Doctorow) — this is the HTML version of the book, which is … Four short links: 7 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 7, 2012 GS-Collections (GitHub) — Goldman Sachs open-sourced (Apache-licensed) their Java collection library, full of lambda goodness. No report on whether it requires a 750G bailout. Learning ZIL — old manual for the interactive fiction programming language that Zork and other Infocom … Four short links: 30 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 30, 2012 TOS;DR — terms of service rendered comprehensible. “Make the hard stuff easy” is a great template for good ideas, and this just nails it. Sick of Impact Factors — typically only 15% of the papers in a journal account for … Four short links: 29 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 28, 2012 NeoVictorian Computing (Mark Bernstein) — read this! I think we all woke up one day to find ourselves living in the software factory. The floor is hard, from time to time it gets very cold at night, and they say … Four short links: 9 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 9, 2012 Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Amazon) — soon-to-be-released book by Bill Janeway, of Warburg-Pincus (and the O’Reilly board). People raved about his session at scifoo. I’m bummed I missed it, but I’ll console myself with his book. Cell Image … Four short links: 18 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 18, 2012 A Brief History of Money (IEEE) — money is fragmenting, moving from a shared delusion to a just-in-time collusion. Understand its past to understand its future. The Lydian system’s breakthrough was the standardized metal coin. Made of a gold-silver alloy … The emerging political force of the network of networks
By Alex HowardJune 22, 2012 The ninth Personal Democracy Forum explored the nexus of technology, politics and campaigns. What's happening online matters offline. Indeed, the barrier between the virtual and physical worlds has fallen. Four short links: 20 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 20, 2012 Researcher Chats To Hacker Who Created The Virus He's Researching -- Chicken: I didn’t know you can see my screen. Hacker: I would like to see your face, but what a pity you don’t have a camera. Economist on QR Codes -- Three-quarters of American online retailers surveyed by Forrester, a research firm, use them. In April nearly 20%... Four short links: 28 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 28, 2012 Canada Wages War on Knowledge -- Library and Archives Canada is ending acquisitions, not digitizing material, dispersing its collection to underfunded private and public collections around Canada, and providing little in the way of access to the scraps they did keep. Apparently Canada has been overrun by Huns and Vandals. Imminent sack of Toronto predicted. (via BoingBoing) Cyberpunk Dress... Visualization of the Week: Avengers AssembleBy Audrey WattersMay 11, 2012 In this week's visualization, The New York Times' data artist Jer Thorp visualizes the appearances of "The Avengers" in the comic book series. Visualization of the Week: Avengers Assemble May 11, 2012 In this week's visualization, The New York Times' data artist Jer Thorp visualizes the appearances of "The Avengers" in the comic book series. Four short links: 10 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 10, 2012 Gravity in the Margins (Got Medieval) -- illuminating illuminated manuscripts with Mario. (via BoingBoing) Hours Days, Who's Counting? (Jon Udell) -- What prompted me to check? My friend Mike Caulfield, who’s been teaching and writing about quantitative literacy, says it’s because in this case I did have some touchstone facts parked in my head, including the number 10 million... Four short links: 8 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 8, 2012 Gmail Vault -- app to backup and restore the contents of your gmail account. (via Hacker News) Leaving Apps for HTML5 (Technology Review) -- We sold 353 subscriptions through the iPad. We never discovered how to avoid the necessity of designing both landscape and portrait versions of the magazine for the app. We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development.... Four short links: 3 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 3, 2012 The History of Key Design (Slate) -- fascinating and educational. I loved the detector lock, which shows you how many times it has been used. Would be lovely to see on my Google account. (via Dave Pell) Why Telcos Don't Grok Open Standards (Simon Phipps) -- Their history is of participants in a market where a legally-constituted cartel of... Four short links: 26 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 26, 2012 Apollo Software -- amazing collection of source code to the software behind the Apollo mission. And memos, and quick references, and operations plans, and .... Just another reminder that the software itself is generally dwarfed by its operation. flickrapi.js (Github) -- Aaron Straup Cope's Javascript library for Flickr. t (Github) -- command-line power-tool for Twitter. Habits of Mind (PDF)... Four short links: 26 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 26, 2012 Australian NSA Forces National Broadband Network to Dump Huawei -- Australia's government security organization knocked Huawei out of the eligible bidding list. "It's the exact area where we have been the sole supplier in the United Kingdom for the past six years," Huawei's director of corporate and public affairs, Jeremy Mitchell, told the Financial Review. Governments ask themselves how... Visualization of the Week: Visualizing Big History March 16, 2012 ChronoZoom is a tool for visualizing Big History, a field of study that combines multiple disciplines to examine events since the beginning of time. Visualization of the Week: Visualizing Big HistoryBy Audrey WattersMarch 16, 2012 ChronoZoom is a tool for visualizing Big History, a field of study that combines multiple disciplines to examine events since the beginning of time. Four short links: 12 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 12, 2012 Web-Scale User Modeling for Targeting (Yahoo! Research, PDF) -- research paper that shows how online advertisers build profiles of us and what matters (e.g., ads we buy from are more important than those we simply click on). Our recent surfing patterns are more relevant than historical ones, which is another indication that value of data analytics increases the closer... Visualization of the Week: Anachronistic language in "Downton Abbey"By Audrey WattersFebruary 24, 2012 Ben Schmidt ran the script of the "Downton Abbey" season two finale through Google Ngrams to see how the show's language matches up with history. Visualization of the Week: Anachronistic language in "Downton Abbey" February 24, 2012 Ben Schmidt ran the script of the "Downton Abbey" season two finale through Google Ngrams to see how the show's language matches up with history. Four short links: 21 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 21, 2012 Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax (Sam Saffron) -- performance advice for front-end developers. The faster your site responds, the more customers will use it. George Dyson Interviewed (Wired) -- a different perspective on computing, worth reading. VLC 2.0.0 -- VLC lets you bypass manufacturers' designed-in brokenness so your computer can play media. Glad to see it still being actively... The stories behind a few O'Reilly "classics"By Tim O'ReillyFebruary 17, 2012 Tim O'Reilly: "It's amazing to me how books I first published more than 20 years ago are still creating value for readers." Top stories: February 13-17, 2012 
By Mac SlocumFebruary 17, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: Tim O'Reilly looked back on important titles from O'Reilly's history, Pete Warden explained the thoughts and actions behind his latest visualization, and LeVar Burton reminded the TOC 2012 audience why storytelling matters. The stories behind a few O'Reilly "classics" 
By Tim O'ReillyFebruary 17, 2012 Tim O'Reilly: "It's amazing to me how books I first published more than 20 years ago are still creating value for readers." Four short links: 5 January 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 5, 2012 Google+ Is Going to Mess Up The Internet (ReadWriteWeb) -- Google thought I would prefer to click through Google+ to find my article than to go straight to it. Severe rip of the negative effects G+ has on the search experience. (via Hacker News) Behind the Scenes of a C64 Demo (Chaos Communications Congress) -- the tricks they use... Four short links: 7 December 2011
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 7, 2011 Don't Be a Free User (Maciej Ceglowski) -- pay for your free services, else they'll go away. Katta -- Lucene for massive data sets in the cloud. (via Pete Warden) Old Weather -- crowdsourced transcription of old nautical journals to yield historical information for climate researchers. (via National Digital Forum) Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About Cancer (Guardian) -- fascinating profile... Four short links: 29 November 2011
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 29, 2011 Reconstructing My Grandfather (JP Rangaswami) -- this is how libraries will be used in the future, by ordinary people (i.e., not professional researchers) reconstructing their families. See my library essay for more thoughts on this. Physical Conservation vs Digitisation for Preservation (Leeds) -- they chose deliberately compromised paper materials (acid-riddled paper) and found that it still would take 50... Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industriesBy Alex HowardNovember 22, 2011 In a time when the American economy needs to catalyze innovation to compete in a global marketplace, members of the United States Congress have advanced legislation that could cripple the Internet industry, damage cybersecurity and harm freedom of expression online. Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries
By Alex HowardNovember 22, 2011 In a time when the American economy needs to catalyze innovation to compete in a global marketplace, members of the United States Congress have advanced legislation that could cripple the Internet industry, damage cybersecurity and harm freedom of expression online. The future of social media at the National Archives
By Alex HowardNovember 18, 2011 A recent forum at the National Archives featured a preview of a "citizen archivist dashboard" and a lively discussion of the past, present and future of social media. Four short links: 7 November 2011
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 7, 2011 California and Bust (Vanity Fair) -- Michael Lewis digs into city and state finances, and the news ain't good. Tonido Plug 2 -- with only watts a day, you could have your own low-cost compute farm that runs off a car battery and a cheap solar panel. William Gibson Interview (The Paris Review) -- It's harder to imagine the... 1 to 50 of 118 Next Stay Connected
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