Notes from Prof. Dipl.-Des. Oliver Wrede
vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology, meta-model
Woody Pidcock from Boeing gives an overview: »What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model? Many organizations and companies are struggling with these terms and the ideas behind them; this set of definitions will help to clarify.«
Jon Udell takes an interesting look at Spring
»Jon Udell takes an interesting look at User Creations’ application Spring.« [Mac Net Journal]
AppleScript online language reference?
Does anybody know a good online language reference for AppleScript? Im mean something like DocServer from UserLand? I wanted to write a very simple AppleScript – and I completly failed. I found a lot of examples – none of which really helped much. For instance: How can I encode a string into base64 in AppleScript?…
The New R&D: Relevant & Desirable
»Somewhere in the process of evangelizing user-centered design, user experience professionals seem to have forgotten the value of vision-driven design.«
Gallery of Data Visualization
»The best and worst of statistical graphics.«
Seminar weblogs and students weblogs
James Farmer sketches his concept for weblogs in education: each member of a project runs his own weblog and he/she will contribute to a group weblog.
How the Students View Weblogs
Anne Davis: »Yesterday I asked the students to write their thoughts about their news weblogs. They wrote sooooooo well. What they wrote speaks for itself.«
U.S. not interested in peace?
Clearly even if you are promoting a US strike against Iraq, there should be one thing to consider: If the U.S. strikes without formal permission of the UN and without recognizing Iraqs effort to apply to the resolution 1441 – how will U.S. ever be able to solve any future conflict peacefully? If there is…
Tablet PCs?
I wonder if these tablet PCs that Microsoft wants to promote are really going to work out. I doubt you can use them with a pen very well for writing. And if you need a keyboard most of the time anyway – why not buying a Laptop right away? (The biggest problem of course is…
2003 And Beyond – Technology trends that will affect business
»This article is a guide to trends that are already in full motion and well known by technology specialists, but are far from obvious to most business managers. I can’t tell you what to do about them, without studying your particular business, but it will cast some light on what you should be looking at.Much…
Flash managable Tree Browser
This seems to be a very promising example of an editable outline in Flash. Does this thing read OPML? You can even move the headings around with the mouse.
hierarchyTemplates Plug-In 0.5 beta 2
Fixed a bug with »newsSite table not found« in context of static rendering. Thanks to Erin Clerico from weblogger.com for pointing that out.
Apache Ant 1.5.1
»Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool, similar to make, but without Make’s wrinkles. It is required to build many Jakarta projects, and also to build Java support for PostgreSQL and other software distributions.«
U.S. Diplomat’s Letter of Resignation
John Brady Kiesling’s letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell: »We should ask ourselves why we have failed to persuade more of the world that a war with Iraq is necessary.«
Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war
»Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members. […] Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The Observer.« [blogdex] Read that secret document.
Patent #6,525,747
Jeff Bozo strikes again: Two days ago the Amazon CEO recieved a patent: A method and system for conducting an electronic discussion relating to a topic. And here is another one that stinks: A method and apparatus are provided for dynamically organizing and tracking website content during its deployment This is ridiculous!
New world order
Former German Minister of Foreign Affairs Hans-Dietrich Genscher said: »We are entering an new era of world order. We will only be able to design the 21st century peacfully if the third world states recognize the agenda as evenhanded. […] We need diplomacy that translates between different schools of thought.« [tagesschau Newsticker]
Google Labs: WebQuotes
It seems Google starts to implement first prototypes of something that explains the Pyra interest. WebQuotes seems to show who is quoting who and how. [WebDEV]
Weblogs and paradigm shifts
Nicholas Jon seems be struggling about advocating weblogs in academic contexts. But reviewing when paradigm shifts happen he thinks it is just a matter of time: »I’ve found the adoption of weblogs, the sharing of information they allow, and the community building they foster to be difficult to push to critical mass – at least…
Weblogs, Google – and Memex?
Dennis G. Jerz wrote an article for »Dichtung Digital«, which could light up the questions about what Google might want with Blogger. Quote: »Google initially began as a tool for rating annotations, according to Larry Page (inventor of Google’s eponymous PageRank): “We wanted to annotate the web–build a system so that after you’d viewed a…
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