Four short links: 17 May 2011
Sorting Out 9/11 (New Yorker) — the thorniest problem for the 9/11 memorial was the ordering of the names. Computer science to the rescue! Tagger — Python library for extracting tags (statistically...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 June 2011
Building Windows 8 – Video #1 (YouTube) — lovely to see Microsoft’s operating system finally leaping past a 2002 look and feel. YouTube Offers Creative Commons Licensing (BoingBoing) — bravo!...
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Publishing News: Apple shifts on subs
Here are a few publishing highlights from the past week. (Note: Some of these stories were published here on Radar throughout the week.) Richard Ziade on the effect of Apple’s in-app subscription shift...
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Choosing the right license for open data
You can’t copyright a fact. But that doesn’t mean that data and databases are exempt from legal discussions and licensing requirements, even if the intention is to share the data openly. Such is the...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 July 2011
The Gender Question — a clever solution to the vexed question of asking users for their gender. (via Luke Wroblewski) Katamari Damacy Creator Joins Glitch — an amazing coup for Stewart Butterfield’s...
View ArticleFour short links: 13 December 2011
Newton’s Notebooks Digitised — wonderful for historians, professional and amateur. I love (a) his handwriting; (b) the pages full of long division that remind us what an amazing time-saver the...
View ArticleTraditional vs self-publishing: Neither is the perfect solution
This post is part of the TOC podcast series, which we’ll be featuring here on Radar in the coming months. You can also subscribe to the free TOC podcast through iTunes. Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) is one...
View ArticleFour short links: 13 March 2012
Microsoft Universal Voice Translator — the promise is that it converts your voice into another language, but the effect is more that it converts your voice into that of Darth You in another language....
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The risks and rewards of a health data commons
As I wrote earlier this year in an ebook on data for the public good, while the idea of data as a currency is still in its infancy, it’s important to think about where the future is taking us and our...
View ArticleFour short links: 7 September 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...
View ArticleFour short links: 29 May 2013
Quick Reads of Notable New Zealanders — notable for two reasons: (a) CC-NC-BY licensed, and (b) gorgeous gorgeous web design. Not what one normally associates with Government web sites! svg.js —...
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Collaborative genetics, part 2: Five Easy Pieces, Sage's Federation
Previous installment: The ambitious goals of Sage Commons Congress A pilot project was launched by Sage with four university partners under the moniker of the Federation, which sounds like something...
View ArticleFour short links: 17 May 2011
Sorting Out 9/11 (New Yorker) — the thorniest problem for the 9/11 memorial was the ordering of the names. Computer science to the rescue! Tagger — Python library for extracting tags (statistically...
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