{"id":323,"date":"2008-02-29T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-02-29T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T10:53:08","slug":"biweekly-links-for-02292008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-02292008\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 02\/29\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/changelog.friendfeed.com\/\">FriendFeed Changelog<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>FriendFeed is publishing the change log as they revise their code.  It&#8217;s like being able to see a telegraphic version of Shakespeare&#8217;s (well, maybe Stephen King) thoughts as he revised his work.  Looks like junk at first, but I&#8217;ll bet it&#8217;s a gold mine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/machinist.salon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/google_homeless\/index.html\">Google gives free voicemail to San Francisco&#8217;s homeless &#8211; Machinist &#8211; Salon.com<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The service, [San Francisco Mayor] Newsom said, will help people who are filling out job applications or are awaiting medical test results.&#8221;  4000 numbers already handed out.  Good stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/20080201\/how-hard-could-it-be-inspired-misfires_Printer_Friendly.html\">Joel Spolsky: How Hard Could It Be?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The combination of &#8220;seems impossible&#8221; and &#8220;strong network effects&#8221; is about as close as you can get to the magic formula for incredible, sustainable success, as with eBay, Wikipedia, and Google.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/undergroundvalue.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/notes-from-buffett-meeting-2152008_23.html\">Underground Value: Warren Buffett at Emory<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Buffett appears both unusually insightful and to have his head screwed on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infovore.org\/archives\/2008\/02\/28\/making-bridges-talk\/\">Infovore: Making bridges talk<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The London Tower Bridge now has a Twitter account: &#8220;I am closing after the MV Dixie Queen has passed upstream.&#8221;  I used to occasionally feel like I was living in a William Gibson novel.  The feeling is getting near-continual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.remem.org\/\">The Remembrance Agent<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The Remembrance Agent (Remem) is an Emacs plug-in that watches over your shoulder and suggests information relevant to what you&#8217;re reading or writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.muohio.edu\/blogs\/darcusb\/archives\/2008\/02\/27\/remembrance-agent-for-web-20\">darcusblog: Remembrance Agent for Web 2.0<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The Remembrance agent was (is, in fact, although I haven&#8217;t used it in years) an interestingemacs application that reminded you in real time of documents that might be relevant to what you&#8217;re working on.  This post discusses possible networked analogues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordyard.com\/\">Scott Rosenberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wordyard<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A new blog subscription. Rosenberg  was co-founder of Salon.com, and wrote &#8220;Dreaming in Code&#8221;, a thoughtful biography and ethnography of the Chandler software project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishingresearch.net\/documents\/PRCPeerReviewSummaryReport-final-e-version.pdf\">Peer Review Report<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting report summarizing scientists&#8217; attitudes towards peer review.  This is the summary (22 pages!), a longer report is available at the same site.  I do wonder whether the organization that commissioned the report has an axe to grind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivy.fr\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/25\/82-git-linus-is-a-designer\">Git: Linus is a designer<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting comments on Git, the new distributed version control system.  Important for more than programmers, I expect we&#8217;ll see distributed version control seep into all kinds of user-generated content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aliasaria.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/08\/user-statistics-overload\/\">a canadian startup: User Statistics Overload<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Helpful advice on extracting statistics from a website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/001063.html\">Coding Horror: I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The title is a tease.  Really about how exactly software developers should (and shouldn&#8217;t) listen to their users.  Mostly, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say they want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationarbitrage.com\/\">Information Arbitrage<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Just added to my blogroll.  The author, Roger Ehrenberg, is a former Wall Streeter using &#8220;the Internet to pursue the dream of Information Arbitrage, a place where hard-to-find, &#8216;long tail&#8217; information is accessed, analyzed and monetized&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/26\/love-massively-multi.html\">BoingBoing: Love: massively multiplayer world created by lone developer<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Beautiful screenshots.  It&#8217;s all done by one guy!  We&#8217;ve come a long way from MacPaint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/2008\/02\/bil-the-unconference.php\">Kevin Kelly on unconferences<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishingresearch.net\/PeerReview.htm\">Peer Review &#8211; perspectives of the scholarly community<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/26\/science\/26tier.html?_r=2&#038;8dpc&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors &#8211; New York Times<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A form of bias: people try to keep their options open, even when that is to their disadvantage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/david.weebly.com\/1\/post\/2008\/02\/the-importance-of-launching-early-and-staying-alive.html\">David Rusenko: The importance of launching early and staying alive<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Good article on the growth of startup companies.  Has data which graphically illustrates the benefits of press versus word of mouth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2008-02\/iu-tdo021908.php\">The downside of a good idea<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Claim: &#8220;When information is freely shared, good ideas can stunt innovation by distracting others from pursuing even better ideas&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/our-secret-sauce.html\">Official Google Blog: Hal Varian on what makes Google better<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Varian&#8217;s conclusion is rather banal &#8211; Google has been doing this longer, which helps them do it better.  I&#8217;m skeptical this is the whole story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freshome.com\/2008\/02\/25\/30-of-the-most-creative-bookshelves-designs\/\">30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m partial to the first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Cluster+Computing+and+MapReduce+Lecture&#038;search_type=\">YouTube: MapReduce lectures<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A set of six lectures explaining Google&#8217;s MapReduce algorithm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kschroeder.com\/weblog\/archive\/2008\/02\/25\/technology-really-is-legislation\">Karl Schroeder: Technology really is legislation<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Karl Schroeder points to and provides interesting metacommentary on Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby&#8217;s recent comments that code really can be law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2006\/08\/01.html\">Joel Spolsky: Can Your Programming Language Do This?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent article explaining Google&#8217;s MapReduce algorithm, a tool used internally by Google to parallelize tasks across their cluster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning-Kruger_effect\">Dunning-Kruger effect<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Roughly, the effect that the ignorant think they know more than they do, while the expert think they know less.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/threatchaos\/?p=548\">Pakistan accidentally launches massive denial of service attack on&#8230; Pakistan<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The Onion cannot hope to compete.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FriendFeed Changelog FriendFeed is publishing the change log as they revise their code. It&#8217;s like being able to see a telegraphic version of Shakespeare&#8217;s (well, maybe Stephen King) thoughts as he revised his work. Looks like junk at first, but I&#8217;ll bet it&#8217;s a gold mine. Google gives free voicemail to San Francisco&#8217;s homeless &#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-02292008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 02\/29\/2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}