An example
Examples of
SF Newspaper
1. The San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper on 2009-10-13 printed an article with a tr.im shortlink:
Note the "tr.im/BAa2" at the bottom of the photo, which a user is presumably expected tounambiguously type into a browser to view the simulation mentioned in the article.
Archeology Magazine
In the May-June 2009 issue of British Archeology section "on the web"there is a list of"Historic landscapes on the web":
Excerpted for demonstration only:
Photo by Tom Gaskar, from his blog post "Why I'm creating my own URL shortening service".
The print entry forPaleo Indian Archaeology on DoD installations uses tinyurl.com (a 3rd party URL shortening service)instead of a direct URL, with the implication that the shortened tinyurl's cryptic sequence of numbers and letters can be unambiguously read and retyped by a human browsing the magazine (or perhaps scanned in by OCR).
Only unambiguously human readable characters should be used in a shortened URL, both in general, and especially in a shortened URL consisting of a series of numbers and letters.
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introduction
I needed a way to compress numbers for a URL shortener I am building so I looked at existing work, decided I could do better with a better design methodology, and ended up deriving a base 60 numbering system from ASCII characters.
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discouraged.
No
No
NickStarr and friend Ben. 2008-10-16 Tara Brown's iPhone missing after party at her place, NickStarr's friend Ben (lastname unknown) stronglysuspected. See tweets fromTaraBrown and SeanBonner (2).
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Wishing these had permalinks. Maybe I'll make up some ids?
Have suggested improvements to my FAQ answers? Ask me for the wiki password via my IM (see my ContactCard).
About Me
Q: What made you decide you wanted to go into technology?
I loved building things and making things work since a very early age. My mom says I was playing with and assembling LEGOs since 1.5 years old. First time I got to explore and program computers (around 5th grade), I knew I'd found what I loved to do.
Q: Why did you choose to focus on interface design?
I found an appreciation for user interface design while I was in college at Stanford. In short, I'd gotten good enough to functionally code/program almost whatever I wanted that I eventually realized that the next limiting factor (of how efficiently I could use computers) was the speed and ease of use of the user interface. So I sought to gain expertise in that too.
Q: I'm exploring technology as a possible career...anything you wish you knew at 17?
So many things! Two to start with.
First and foremost, the importance of balance, in almost all things.
I know that sounds vague and abstract, but I have found that balance is the key to getting many things right, from design, to pursuing work vs personal things, to time with those I care about.
Second, in addition to working very hard and being the best you can be, be sure to actively cultivate, curate, evolve the set of people you spend time with - never let your social network stagnate.
In short: focus on spending your time with and on those that deserve it, rather than those that demand it - in all areas of life (school/work, friends, family, love). Learn to tell the difference, and always be open to meeting new people.
Q: I thought you left Technorati?
2007.
Web Design
Q: What books should I get to learn how to build for the Web?
Read JeffreyZeldman'sDesigningWithWebStandards cover to cover.
Reference JenniferNiederst'sWebDesignInANutshellThirdEdition.
See
Q: What's the best starter book for CSS?
Get WebDesignInANutshellThirdEdition which helps teach good HTML habits while teaching CSS (good HTML habits make writing CSS so much easier). Absolutely essential to get the THIRD edition which has been completely rewritten from the previous edition.
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Eston Bond
Carla B.
LisaBrewster
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Please go vote for it!
Open Collaboration Between Scientists, Communities, and the Unknown
Proposals
SXSW2010OpenScienceProposal
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2-6: W3C CSS WG mtg,Technical Plenary, HTML WG mtg (chaired microdata+RDFa session)
18: HTML5 workshop — New York City
18: microformats workshop— New York City
December
2: Supernova Conference — Real Time Flow track(chair)
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November
2-6: W3C CSS WG mtg,Technical Plenary, HTML WG mtg (chaired microdata+RDFa session)
18:HTML5 workshop — New York City
18:microformats workshop— New York City
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November 18:microformats workshop— New York City
December 4:HTML5 workshop — San Francisco
December 4:microformats workshop— San Francisco
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In fact, said Dr. David Ludwig, a Harvard endocrinologist whose 2001 paper in the Lancet is widely cited by obesity researchers, sweetened drinks are the only specific food that clinical research has directly linked to weight gain.
"Highly concentrated starches and sugars promote overeating, and the granddaddy of them all is sugar-sweetened beverages," said Ludwig, who runs the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children's Hospital in
The rise in soft drink consumption mirrors the national march toward obesity. At the midpoint of the 20th century, Americans drank four times as much milk as soda pop. Today, the ratio is almost completely reversed, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Meanwhile, in the past 30 years the national obesity rate has more than doubled, and among teenagers, more than tripled, reports the Centers for Disease Control and
Even Diet Soda Makes You Fat
artificial sweeteners (e.g. diet sodas) apparently indirectly lead to weight gain:
2008-02-11 LATimes:Saccharinmayleadtoweightgain
2008-02-11 ABCnews:Study:ArtificialSweetenersIncreaseWeightGainOddsFake Sweeteners, Lack of Calories May Trick Brain.
apparently simply the acidity of soda may cause a lower metabolism
2009-11-25 video: http://thehealthier.me/note/diet-soda-makes-you-fat
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Projects
In approximate order
Open Web Technologies
http://microformats.org/wiki/
http://bodyoptimization.pbwiki.com/
http://lifecamp.pbwiki.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://wiki.whatwg.org/
http://wiki2008.openid.net/
http://csswg.inkedblade.net/
http://barcamp.org/
http://nerdcurious.pbwiki.com/
http://shdh.pbwiki.com/
http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/
Independence for Independents
http://buildingblocks.pbwiki.com/
Fitness
http://bodyoptimization.pbwiki.com/
http://geeksloveclimbing.pbwiki.com/
Conferences
http://fowa.pbwiki.com/
http://netsquared.pbwiki.com/
Other communities
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://waaa.pbwiki.com/
http://stanford.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://socialmediaclub.pbwiki.com/San-Francisco
http://postbreakup.pbwiki.com/
http://netsquared.pbwiki.com/
Projects to be reviewed to update
Can't seem to find the invite keys/passwords to these wikis. We'll see what happens when PBWiki force upgrades them.
http://videobloggingweek.pbwiki.com
http://thewinnies2007.pbwiki.com/
Projects that are not being actively worked on
http://pownce.pbwiki.com/- pownce.com itself went read-only on 2008-12-15
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instead of "vcard" microdata vocabulary, reference hCard 1.0.1 if necessary to note this functionality in HTML5
needs hCard 1.0.1 draft with sufficient author and user agent compliance details
needs hCard 1.0.1 section on HTML5 and how to use HTML5 specific features if desired like <time> element, microdata, instead of (or in addition to) HTML class names.
progress: the vcard microdata vocab references the hCard profile URL.
instead of "vevent" microdata vocabulary, reference hCalendar 1.0.1 if necessary
needs hCalendar 1.0.1 draft with sufficient author and user agent compliance details
needs hCalendar 1.0.1 section on HTML5 and how to use HTML5 specific features if desired like <time> element, microdata, instead of (or in addition to) HTML class names.
progress: the vevent microdata vocab references the hCalendar profile URL.
instead of licensing "work" microdata vocabulary, reference licensing microformat if necessary
brainstorming) including "item-license", with sufficient author and user agent compliance details, and how to useHTML5 specific features if desired like <time> element, microdata, instead of (or in addition to) HTML class names.
rel values that should normatively reference microformats instead of incorporating/describing them:
replace HTML5 description of "license", with a normative reference to the rel-license microformat
other rel values. per HTML5 Other link types, add well established rel microformats to the WHATWG wiki RelExtensions page.
Note: XFN is already on that WHATWG wiki page, and all XFN values are "Accepted." Re-iterate good feedback on this point.
Resolved
Progress. These are suggested changes to the HTML5 draft that have shown at least some improvement (specifics documented below). Any outstanding issues with the suggested changes are kept in the Suggestions section above.
* As of 2009-11 (apparently resolved sometime in late September or October)
Remove predefined microdata vocabularies. Originally requested 2009-08. The predefined microdata vocabularies for "vcard", "vevent" and licensing have been removed from the core HTML5 specification, and moved to a separate set of drafts. This is an improvement in HTML5.
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JeffreyZeldman'sDesigningWithWebStandards 3rd editioncover to cover.
ReadEmily Lewis's Microformatsbook cover to cover.
Reference JenniferNiederst'sWebDesignInANutshellThirdEdition, which provides excellent documentation of modern (X)HTML + CSS authoring practices. Absolutely essential to get the THIRD edition which has been completely rewritten from the previous edition.
Allsopp's
This list is just a start and horribly incomplete, but better a start than nothing at all. There are many more awesome modern web authoring/design/development books by additional top notch modern web design/development authors such as Dan Cederholm, Jeremy Keith, Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Veen etc (also an incomplete list) that I recommend you read.
See also: ReadBooks
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This is not a definitive nor thorough/complete list. Rather, I've only documented shorthands after actual usage, no theoretical shorthands.
Feel free to copy/paste and start a TxtShorthands page on your own wiki. Let me know and I'll link to it below.
shorthandization
Flickr.
chrgr = charger
filterd = filtered
> = more than
@ = at
d
substitutions
<3 = heart, love
cmd(s) = command(s)
co(s) = company(s)
comm(s)
cont = continue, continuous
CTTP = Coffee To The People
mtg(s) = meeting(s)
mv = move
than
ne1 = anyone
nopa = North of Panhandle
ttyl = talk to you later
ttys = talk to you soon
you
txt = text
tz = timezone
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WG
18: HTML5 workshop — New York City
18: microformats workshop— New York City
December
2: Supernova Conference — Real Time Flow track(chair)
4: HTML5 workshop — San Francisco
4: microformats workshop— San Francisco
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November
18:microformats
November 18:microformats workshop— New York City
4:HTML5
December 4:HTML5 workshop — San Francisco
4:microformats
December 4:microformats workshop— San Francisco
SXSW2010
Getting Things Done
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SpeakingSchedule
November 18th:HTML5 workshop — New York City
18:microformats workshop— New York City
4:HTML5 workshop — San Francisco
4:microformats workshop— San Francisco
SXSW2010
Getting Things Done
BugReports to be fixed
Random Notes
8bitday
CaretNotes
DataIntegrity
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November
2-6: W3C CSS WG meeting,Technical Plenary, HTML WG meeting
18: HTML5 workshop — New York City
18: microformats workshop— New York City
December
4: HTML5 workshop — San Francisco
4: microformats workshop— San Francisco
2010
March
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function str_ireplace(a,b,s) {
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Kevin Cheng: Communication Protocol
DonKnuthversusEmail (while primarily about email, actually documents his communication protocols and methodology quite well)
Ariel Waldman
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others startup notes
Kevin Cheng StartUp
see also
Katie O'Shea's workvaluesblogpost
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H2VX
ReadBooks
WatchFilms
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Implementations
NewBase60 provides an open source implementation written completely in CASSIS v0.
H2VX uses CASSIS v0.
Projects to be written
Parse hCalendar events and hAtom entries and generate an Atom file. Perhaps start with one or more of the open source PHP microformats parsers and distill it into Cassis.
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function explode(d,s,n) {
return s.split(d,n);
}
function rawurlencode(s) {
return encodeURIComponent(s);
}
function htmlspecialchars(s) {
var c= %5B%5B"&","&"%5D,%5B"<","<"%5D,%5B">",">"%5D,%5B"'","'"%5D,%5B'"',"""%5D%5D;
for (i=0;i<c.length;i++) {
s = s.replace(c%5Bi%5D%5B0%5D,c%5Bi%5D%5B1%5D);
}
return s;
}
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return s.split(d,n);
}
function rawurlencode(s) {
return encodeURIComponent(s);
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function htmlspecialchars(s) {
var c= %5B%5B"&","&"%5D,%5B"<","<"%5D,%5B">",">"%5D,%5B"'","'"%5D,%5B'"',"""%5D%5D;
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EJS;
/**/
/* end cassis0php.js */
A precise sequence of common HTML/SGML comments <!-- -->, block comments /*...*/, one line comments //, PHP execution environment entering <? and exiting ?>, and the PHP "heredoc" <<< block string format is used to declare a function in javascript which is seen only as a string value block of text by PHP. The concept of using overlapping multi-lingual comments to pass different content to different language interpreters was first proposed and demonstrated in Semantic Scripting (posted 2002-11-21).
Using the above cassis0php.js code, CASSIS v0 code can call the "strlen" (todetermine the length of a string)and "ord" functions, and such function calls will work in PHP or javascript.
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/*
EJS;
/**/
/* end cassis0php.js */
return s.split(d,n);
}
function rawurlencode(s) {
return encodeURIComponent(s);
}
function htmlspecialchars(s) {
var c= %5B%5B"&","&"%5D,%5B"<","<"%5D,%5B">",">"%5D,%5B"'","'"%5D,%5B'"',"""%5D%5D;
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A precise sequence of common HTML/SGML comments <!-- -->, block comments /*...*/, one line comments //, PHP execution environment entering <? and exiting ?>, and the PHP "heredoc" <<< block string format is used to declare a function in javascript which is seen only as a string value block of text by PHP. The concept of using overlapping multi-lingual comments to pass different content to different language interpreters was first proposed and demonstrated in Semantic Scripting (posted 2002-11-21).
Using the above cassis0php.js code, CASSIS v0 code can call the "strlen" (todetermine the length of a string)and "ord" functions, and such function calls will work in PHP or javascript.
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Bluetooth Setup Assistant
Phone Vendor: Research in Motion
Phone Model: BlackBerry 8800
Username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1
Phone Number: wap.cingular
"Internet Connect" application / "Network" Bluetooth preferences configuration info for AT&T (formerly Cingular)
GPRS CID String / Telephone Number: wap.cingular
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application / "Network" Bluetooth preferences configuration info for AT&T (formerly Cingular)
GPRS CID String / Telephone Number: wap.cingular
Username / Account Name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
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Tips and links to useful resources for maintaining, repairing, upgrading various laptops.
PowerBook G4 12 inch
These look useful but I haven't tried them yet:
- how to replace keyboard on a PowerBook G4 12inch: http://www.faqintosh.com/risorse/en/guides/hw/pbook/pb12g4keyb/
- how to replace the hard drive on a PowerBook G4 12inch: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/powerbookg4_12in_hd_upgrade/powebookg4_12in_hd_upgrade.htm
Related:
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sealed.
white list. There may be one or more pets that I have found to be *extremely* well behaved, and they have been through "trial" visits and passed 100%.
Cindy (of @katherineand @tony)
Funston
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in general
http://www.zeldman.com/superfriends/ specifically:
http://www.zeldman.com/superfriends/guide/
time element
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Time_Element
cite element
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Cite_element
Reviewing
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/
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http://web.archive.org/web/20051102094339/we05.com/program.cfm
http://web.archive.org/web/20060426200246/we05.com/images/banners/banner6.gif
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http://web.archive.org/web/20051211105739/we05.com/images/we05-logo.gif
/presenters.cfm
http://web.archive.org/web/20051104085243/we05.com/presenters.cfm
/program.cfm
http://web.archive.org/web/20051102094339/we05.com/program.cfm
/podcast/
http://web.archive.org/web/20051108005416/we05.com/podcast/
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Web Essentials 05 (we05) was a superb web conference held in Sydney, Australia, September 29-30, 2005.
The domain name (we05.com) has lapsed and/or been squatted by apparent spammers an thus I'm collecting related resources here instead of linking directly to we05.com. Please feel free to add links to we05 resources across the web.
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http://microformats.org/media/2005/09/we05-14-tantek-celik2.mp3
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Photos:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/we05
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Blog posts:
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we05.com
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http://web.archive.org/web/20060428091702/http://we05.com/
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http://web.archive.org/web/20051102094339/we05.com/program.cfm
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http://web.archive.org/web/20051104085243/we05.com/presenters.cfm
/podcast/
http://web.archive.org/web/20051108005416/we05.com/podcast/
/podcast/mp3/we05-2-tantek-celik2.mp3
http://microformats.org/media/2005/09/we05-2-tantek-celik2.mp3
/podcast/mp3/we05-14-tantek-celik2.mp3
http://microformats.org/media/2005/09/we05-14-tantek-celik2.mp3
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Podcasts:
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Web Essentials 05 (we05) was a superb web conference held in Sydney, Australia, September 29-30, 2005.
The domain name (we05.com) has lapsed and/or been squatted by apparent spammers an thus I'm collecting related resources here instead of linking directly to we05.com. Please feel free to add links to we05 resources across the web.
Home page: http://web.archive.org/web/20060705220503/http://www.we05.com/
Podcasts:
- http://microformats.org/media/2005/09/we05-2-tantek-celik.mp3
- http://microformats.org/media/2005/09/we05-14-tantek-celik2.mp3
Photos:
Blog posts:
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Past events in 2005 where I've spoken or participated. See SpeakingSchedule for future events.
(This page is a stub and only contains partial information)
2005
September
- 29-30: we05 - Web Essentials 05
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short URL:http://tr.im/8bitday
Introduction
If you start the year with day 0, in the year 2009, 2009-09-13 (or 2009-256) is day number 255 = FF hex = 11111111 binary. 8 bits. As tweeted on 2009-256.
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http://8bitpeoples.com-check out the CC by-nc-nd mp3s on their site.
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Let's make this an (un)official holiday in honor of all things 8-bit!
Introduction
If you start the year with day 0, in the year 2009, 2009-09-13 (or 2009-256) is day number 255 = FF hex = 11111111 binary. 8 bits. As tweeted on 2009-256.
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year 2009, 2009-09-13 (or 2009-256) is day number 255 = FF hex = 11111111 binary. 8
Use the hashtag #8bitday to tweet, celebrate, discuss 8-bit day on Twitter.
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8-bit day is the 256th day of the year. Let's make this an (un)official holiday in honor of all things 8-bit!
Introduction
If you start the year with day 0, in the year 2009-09-13 (or 2009-256) is day number 255 = FF hex = 11111111 binary. 8 bits.
Use the hashtag #8bitday to tweet, celebrate, discuss 8-bit day on Twitter.
Music
- http://tr.im/8bits - 8-bit music on last.fm
Related
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Scientists lead the push for open data sharing (featuring Cameron Neylon) http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=214
Open Science: Tools, Approaches, and Implications (Cameron Neylon et al) http://psb.stanford.edu/psb-online/proceedings/psb09/abstracts/2009_p540.html
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August
12New York City microformats workshop
14 microformats intro - RTV incubator lunchtime talk
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12 New York City microformats workshop
2010
March
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Rick Webb
insufficient storage
CameronMoll wants one with more then 80GB storage.
general complaints
LAME."
JanBrašna thinks the iBook 12" is still more awesome than his current MacBookAir
lack of firewire
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Additional and related topics
Citizen Science - e.g.http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/citizensky/
How is citizen science related to open science?
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it's just that few people can ride a motorcycle, and it typically requires training and practice to do well.
Flying a jet is impossible
If you took a random sample of people and had them try flying a jet plane, they would likely all fail to take off or crash. Does this mean flying a jet plane if impossible? No, it's just that very few people can fly a jet plane, and it requires A LOT of training and practice (in simulators, with a skilled co-pilot) to learn to do well.
Maybe multitasking requires training and practice as well.
Socio-cultural reactions
As multitasking breaks from established social-cultural conventions, it scares many people and makes them uncomfortable as well, causing them to often lash out irrationally. It is important to note and catalog these reactions, as well as calm refutations thereof, and then follow-up appropriately to the reactionary comments.
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incrementally.
Learn limitations - When attempting to multitask, if you either fail to complete a task, or find that the task(s) are taking longer than they would if you did them sequentially, note the set of things you were trying to do, put it in a section like "beyond current capabilities", and then try doing fewer of those things at the same time and see how you do.
Do long-wait tasks in parallel
on a non-primary productivity computer
or on your primary productivity computer before going to take a shower
Successes
Examples of multitasking successes:
Video games. any kid playing a moderately complex simulated world video game (Sims, Civilization, Command & Conquer). In these games typically you must maintain, in realtime, multiple objectives across multiple areas of a "map". It's not easy to do at first, but by both watching others do it, and practicing it yourself, you can become increasingly good at it. Pretty much anyone that has played these video games for at least a few hours is familiar with this experience of increasing skill in this particular example of multitasking.
Cooking. any chef preparing a multidish meal, etc. again, there are multiple objectives (multiple dishes) that a chef must prepare in real time, often with precise scheduling or syncing requirements. and again, anyone who cooks at home, and spends the hours developing the skills to cook one dish, then two (in series first, then in parallel), then three (similarly) is familiar with thisexperience of increasing skill in this particular example of multitasking.
Limitations
It's important to be cognizant of possible limitations of multitasking. These tend to be of a personal nature, and sometimes of an aggregate nature, or experiential nature, i.e.
I (or any particular individual) might not be able to accomplish a particular set of tasks simultaneously (e.g. I can't juggle), but that doesn't mean that you or anybody else can't.
Some people might not be able to accomplish a particular set of tasks simultaneously (e.g. drive a manual transmission which requires multitasking/coordinating shifting, using the clutch, and gas pedals), but that doesn't mean that everybody can't.
Resources
HeatherGoldShow@SXSW:Eachguest,1beer.ContinuousPartialAttention
A very simple example of such multitasking is starting the laundry, then doing other things while waiting for the laundry to finish. You are multitasking because you are doing two things at once, that is, you are doing the laundry, and those other things.
Criticisms of Multitasking
Anti-multitasking studies, conclusions, and their logic/methodology flaws
There are many studies which either claim to (or are claimed to) prove that multitasking fails, that multitasking is impossible, that multitasking is makes you less efficient, etc. E.g.
2008-08-24 Wired: Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off
Anyone who wants to learn effective multitasking should read those articles and see if they can tell where the logical and methodological flaws are, and see if they can extract instances of possible limitations from such studies as worthy of being aware of.
Straw man
Perhaps the most common logical flaw made by negative arguments (arguments that attempt to prove something doesn't doesn't work, is impossible, is a bad idea etc.) is the straw man fallacy. In short, an article sets up an artificially constructed example of the point they are arguing against, criticizes the artificial example, and then concludes that since they demonstrated that the artificial example fails, then so must the larger point they are arguing against.
Proof of a negative with negative examples
In short, you can't prove a negative by collecting a bunch of failures.Stronger than the straw man, but still logically flawed, is the proof of a negative with negative examples fallacy. I couldn't find a specific wikipedia article on it, but hasty generalization comes close.
There are no squares
Here is a simple example of an obviously false proof by negative:
Evidence: here are lots of examples of four sided polygons (rectangles, trapezoids) where the sides fail to be the same length!
Conclusion: therefore, it must be impossible to make a four sided polygon with sides that are the same length.
Clearly the existence of rhombuses(most often squares) disproves the false conclusion.
All you can conclude from the evidence is that there are some four sided polygons with inequal sides.
But some does not mean all.
Here is the similarly flawed outline of many anti-multitasking articles (like the Wired article) :
Evidence: here are lots of examples of multitasking where the multitaskers fail (under whatever metric)
Conclusion: therefore, it must be impossible to multitask!
Again, the conclusion is flawed.
However, also again, you can conclude from the evidence that there are some people who fail at some examples of multitasking.
And again, some does not mean all:
Just because *some* people fail at some multitasking doesn't mean *all* people do.
Just because some people fail at *some* examples of multitasking doesn't mean that they fail at *all* multitasking.
More specific analogies:
Motorcycling is impossible
If you took a random sample of people and put them on motorcycles, they would likely nearly all crash soon after getting going. Does this mean that motorcycling is impossible for people? No, it's few people can ride a motorcycle, and it typically requires training and practice to do well.
Flying a jet is impossible
If you took a random sample of people and had them try flying a jet plane, they would likely all fail to take off or crash. Does this mean flying a jet plane if impossible? No, it's just that very few people can fly a jet plane, and it requires A LOT of training and practice (in simulators, with a skilled co-pilot) to learn to do well.
Socio-cultural reactions
irrationally.
somecommentsfrommyphotostartingwithmostrecentbyxispo
commentsonWillo'spost: 2007-07-02EvolveorDie
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SXSW2010
Getting Things Done
LinksToolbar - links I seem to access frequently from a variety of browsers that don't/won't sync w each other, nor do I necessarily want to provide online sync credentials to a random machine to access.
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Science
7 steps to Open Science today
recommendations to science publishers discussed 2009-190 at the "open science open data on today's web" session at SciBarCampPaloAlto (see after the recommendations for the outline of the talk), in rough order of priority (highest first)
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Open
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Proposals
SXSW2010OpenScienceProposal
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7 steps to Open Science today
recommendations to science publishers discussed 2009-190 at the "open science open data on today's web" session at SciBarCampPaloAlto (see after the recommendations for the outline of the talk), in rough order of priority (highest first)
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Science panel proposal for
7 steps to Open Science today
recommendations to science publishers discussed 2009-190 at the "open science open data on today's web" session at SciBarCampPaloAlto (see after the recommendations for the outline of the talk), in rough order of priority (highest first)
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Update
The Open Science proposal for SXSW2010 has been accepted!Please go vote for it:
7 steps to Open Science today
recommendations to science publishers discussed 2009-190 at the "open science open data on today's web" session at SciBarCampPaloAlto (see after the recommendations for the outline of the talk), in rough order of priority (highest first)
Just publish it! Whatever existing electronic format you have your papers, data in, whether HTML, PDF, .doc (MS WORD), CSV, just publish it on the Web. Don't worry about format conversion (for now). Just put the data out there so it's at least somewhat accessible to the web, search engines, applications etc.
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Accessibility / Web Standards
Community / Online Community
Government and Technology
New Technology / Next Generation
Open Source
... would have added these tags as well, were free-from tags permitted:
science(note from Ariel: science sadly is not listed as a category for SXSW - hopefully this year will show a larger interest in bringing science to the SXSW platform!)
opendata
community
...
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open data
10 questions that will be answered in this panel / presentation
Why do Open Science?
How can I contribute to Open Science?
What is the best way to publish Open Science today?
of
How do you facilitate the development of a %5Bprofessional?-CN%5D community around Open Science? %5Bare 6 and 7 kind of the same thing?-CN%5D
What are the technical barriers to
What are the social barriers to
What new policy and legal tools do we need to support
If we develop a strong
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Part of the SXSW2010 project and the ongoing OpenScience project.
This panel proposal has been accepted!Please go vote for it:
SXSW 2010 panel proposal: Open Science on Today's Web
Title of panel or presentation (maximum 8 words)
Open Science on Today's Web
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FELLOWPANELISTS PLEASEADDANYUPDATESBYMIDNIGHTTONIGHT 2009-07-17.
%5BAdded a few things on Sat 18th. Sorry for being so late - have
It's already been a week since the official deadline, and I'm afraid pushing our luck any further may reduce our chances of consideration too much. Please add a question to the "10 questions that will be answered section). Thanks! -Tantek
Title of panel or presentation (maximum 8 words)
Open Science on Today's Web
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flickr.com/photos/tantek,
updates: twitter.com/t, tantek.pbwiki.com/changes.php, flickr.com/photos/tantek,
Write me / capture state to transfer (preferred order): personal site, wiki, data-type specific website (e.g. publish your events on upcoming, your photos on
Notify me / send me URLs to captured state (preferred order): IRC channel (not private message), IM, dm, txt, email.
This prioritization shapes the design of my ContactCard.
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Table of Contents
Background
I'm capturing and collecting some notes on my experiences with human to human communication protocols and mediums from my perspective, i.e. when others are trying to communicate with me, what works well and what doesn't work so well, and why, in the hopes of maybe helping to uncover and define more efficient habits for purely factual communication between humans.
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hCalendar,
full day workshop
if you are interested in a microformats workshop in your city, please contact me (see ContactCard).
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NewBase60 provides an open source implementation written in CASSIS v0.
Projects to be written
Parse hCalendar events and hAtom entries and generate an Atom file. Perhaps start with one or more of the open source PHP microformats parsers and distill it into Cassis.
Personal URL shortener that converts long descriptive URLs into short sharable/compressed URLs (using NewBase60) and back.
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http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ
http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/DesignGuide/introduction.html
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section
"Requiring consensus is only a viable when the parties to be involved in the consensus all have interests in the success of the standard." -David Baron
Controversial issues
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Table_Summary
lots of email traffic generated in 2009-08
Intranets not being a good source for design influence
Suggestions
These are suggested changes to the HTML5 draft, and very much in progress.
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Regarding methodology, conflict resolution, research, burdens of proof:
anecdotal expertise vs. research data: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0111.html
how do you proceed when anecdotal experts disagree?
e.g. WAI WCAG2 vs. government documents vs. Joe Clark WCAG Samurai ("To Hell With WCAG2" article,fork of WCAG1 to do WCAG1 errata as alternative to WCAG2)
http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.22.htm#(g) (Last paragraph of section h.)
Suggestions
These are suggested changes to the HTML5 draft, and very much in progress.
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http://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/reservations-about-html5-271/
Suggestions
These are suggested changes to the HTML5 draft, and very much in progress.
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Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest- CNET
public-html:Feedback on the current editor's draftbyAdrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
Suggestions
These are suggested changes to the HTML5 draft, and very much in progress.
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http://adactio.com/journal/1600/
Suggestions
These are suggested changes to the HTML5 draft, and very much in progress.
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Note: XFN is already on that WHATWG wiki page, and all XFN values are "Accepted." Re-iterate good feedback on this point.
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These are suggested changes to the HTML5 draft, and very much in progress.
Remove predefined microdata vocabularies
instead of "vcard" microdata vocabulary, reference hCard 1.0.1 if necessary to note this functionality in HTML5
replace HTML5 description of "license", with a normative reference to the rel-license microformat
replace the *incorrect* (refers to whole document) HTML5 description of "tag", with a normative reference to the rel-tag microformat
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Reviewing
- http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/
- http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ
- http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/DesignGuide/introduction.html
Suggestions
- Remove predefined microdata vocabularies
- instead of "vcard" microdata vocabulary, reference hCard 1.0.1 if necessary to note this functionality in HTML5
- needs hCard 1.0.1 draft with sufficient author and user agent compliance details
- needs hCard 1.0.1 section on HTML5 and how to use HTML5 specific features if desired like <time> element, microdata, instead of (or in addition to) HTML class names.
- instead of "vevent" microdata vocabulary, reference hCalendar 1.0.1 if necessary
- needs hCalendar 1.0.1 draft with sufficient author and user agent compliance details
- needs hCalendar 1.0.1 section on HTML5 and how to use HTML5 specific features if desired like <time> element, microdata, instead of (or in addition to) HTML class names.
- instead of licensing "work" microdata vocabulary, reference licensing microformat if necessary
- requires writing draft of licensing microformat (from licensing brainstorming) with sufficient author and user agent compliance details, and how to use HTML5 specific features if desired like <time> element, microdata, instead of (or in addition to) HTML class names.
- instead of "vcard" microdata vocabulary, reference hCard 1.0.1 if necessary to note this functionality in HTML5
- rel values that should normatively reference microformats instead of incorporating/describing them:
- replace HTML5 description of "license", with a normative reference to the rel-license microformat
- replace the *incorrect* (refers to whole document) HTML5 description of "tag", with a normative reference to the rel-tag microformat
HTML5
NonProfits
http://barcamp.org/
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As twittered2008-02-17:
EMAIL shall henceforth be known as EFAIL.
This page for documenting the problems of email, how it both fails in intended uses, and can and typically does cause other types of failure as well.
one to one communications do not scale
attention
efail makes it too easy for negative people to hijack your attention. (astwittered)
Fattyfattyfacebook
Why do my tools put all the power in the hands of the people sending me messages? Why do I feel powerless when I’m opening MY email/MY facebook/MY myspace?
articles and posts
2008-02-19 ThreeHumanInterfaceHypothesesUpdate:EmailisEfail - my blog post two days after mytweet, expanding and describing specifics.
2008-04-24
2008-07-31 LATimes:You'vegottoomuche-mail
2008-07-31 ChicagoTribune, 2
2008-08-11 TheSeattleTimes
This is at best a poor analogy, at worst, completely false.
When a person declares financial bankruptcy, in which they toss/delete their financial debt and attempt to start over from scratch, they are not allowed to then take on new financial debt (credit cards, loans) etc. for quite some time (if ever).
time.
Therefore I can only assert that usage of the term "email bankruptcy" is a misnomer and a misconception.
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Dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data formats for the Web, Tantek Çelik co-founded both GMPG and the growing microformats.org open standards community after many years of experience contributing to, writing, and editing specifications at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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