{"id":481,"date":"2008-10-27T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-10-27T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T10:53:05","slug":"biweekly-links-for-10272008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10272008\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 10\/27\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/gems\/umlaut.html\">Jon Udell on the evolution of a Wikipedia article.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>He traces, of all things, the &#8220;Heavy metal umlaut&#8221; article.  It&#8217;s fascinating to see the evolution in real time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/cgi-bin\/common\/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=\/articles\/2008\/10\/23\/1224351430987.html\">Australian government trying to gag web censor critics<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuing an unfortunate tradition in which both major parties in Australia make major mistakes in regard to internet policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2008\/10\/i_think_im_musing_my_mind.html\">I think I&#8217;m musing my mind &#8211; Roger Ebert&#8217;s Journal<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Ebert on losing the ability to speak, and what writing means to him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/publishing2.com\/2008\/10\/09\/will-algorithms-make-human-editors-obsolete-not-if-journalists-collaborate\/\">Will Algorithms Make Human Editors Obsolete? Not If Journalists Collaborate &#8211; Publishing 2.0<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;most news site still see original content creation as their sole purpose \u00e2\u20ac\u201d they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see the tremendous need, and the tremendous value in filtering the content that already exists. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see that every link on their site is an important editorial judgment, not an afterthought, not an algorithmic process to set and forget (which often leads to algorithms making bad recommendations, as many news sites who use them will tell you).&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/29\/princeton-companion-to-mathematics\/\">Terry Tao: Princeton Companion to Mathematics<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The PCM is now out.  Based on the bits I&#8217;ve seen, this should be an incredible resource for mathematicians.  Note that there&#8217;s an &#8220;Advice to Younger Mathematicians&#8221; section which is free on the web, containing advice from people like Atiyah, Connes and many other great mathematicians. See the links in the post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2008\/10\/cloud_culture.php\">Kevin Kelly: Cloud Culture<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The war over copyright will seem tame compared to the legal battles that the life in the cloud will hatch. Who&#8217;s laws will prevail? The laws of your domicile, the laws of your server&#8217;s domicile, or the laws of international exchange? Who gets your taxes if all the work is being done in the cloud? The transparent discontinuity between legal regimes will be a threat to the expansion of the cloud.  This friction will also force the growth of multiple clouds. Clouds with varying legal frameworks will compete at the global level, although within many geographical regions, there may be little choice. But the legal issues are not merely international. Who owns the data, you or the cloud? If all your email and voice calls go through the cloud, who is responsible for what it says? In the new intimacy of the cloud, when you have half-baked thoughts, weird daydreams, should they not be treated differently than what you really believe?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/02\/tech-tips-for-the-basic-computer-user\/?em\">Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User &#8211; David Pogue<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>I was surprised by how many of these I didn&#8217;t know &#8211; maybe a quarter, some of them very useful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/1313-in-a-connected-world-countries-governments\">The character of a country<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;In a connected world, countries, governments and companies also have character, and their character \u00e2\u20ac\u201d how they do what they do, how they keep promises, how they make decisions, how things really happen inside, how they connect and collaborate, how they engender trust, how they relate to their customers, to the environment and to the communities in which they operate \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is now their fate.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/1325-acquire-taste\">David Heinemeier Hansson: Acquire taste<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The problem with the concept of taste is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so ephemeral. One view of the world is that some people just have it and others don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Either you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re lucky enough to be born with it and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be forever awesome or you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a tasteless sod doomed to create crappy work. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t subscribe.\n<p>I think taste is mostly about developing an eye for the details that matter and that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absolutely something that can be learned. The best way to learn what details that matter is to examine the details of great and not-so-great work and contrast and compare.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/U27CE62BB\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/intro-to-failure\">Intro to Failure &#8211; Eva Amsen<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;But still. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not doing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153normal thing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a postdoc lined up. I feel like I told people I am dropping out of high school and moving to Hollywood to become an actor. No Academy Award would ever make up for the feeling of failing high school. And no matter what I end up doing in a few years, no matter how much I love it or how good I am at it, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not going to make up for the feeling of failing the standard research career. I think I also sense some of this in Anna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent blog post . There is a feeling of being lost when leaving the mainstream track. One of the things I talked about in my failure session at BioBarCamp was my aversion to the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153alternative career\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The fact that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153alternative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d already makes it sound like it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite live up to the career it is an alternative to \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the research career.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/publications\/linuxkerneldevelopment.php\">Linux Kernel Development<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Great overview, with many fascinating tidbists, including a list of which companies are contributing most to the kernel.  One particularly interest fact: &#8220;over 70% of all kernel development is demonstrably done by developers who are being paid for their work.&#8221;  Linux isn&#8217;t so much a volunteer effort by individuals, as it is now a volunteer effort by companies; the economics of that are pretty darned interesting.  I guess a lot see themselves as downstream of Microsoft&#8217;s business model, and want a viable competitor, similar to Google&#8217;s support of Firefox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/04\/18\/164213&#038;tid=95\">Larry Sanger: The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent account, first of two parts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia#History\">Wikipedia&#8217;s history, according to Wikipedia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Very informative, with lots of great links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/01\/business\/link.php\">Editing &#8211; and re-editing &#8211; Sarah Palin&#8217;s Wikipedia entry &#8211; International Herald Tribune<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Many interesting details on the cleanup of Sarah Palin&#8217;s wikipedia page that occurred in the run-up to the announcement that she was McCain&#8217;s VP pick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/29\/AR2008082902691.html\">Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A comparison of Wikipedia edits in the runup to McCain&#8217;s pick of Palin.  The bottom line is that Palin&#8217;s entry showed a lot of activity compared with other contenders, but there&#8217;s loads of other interesting information in the article as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell on the evolution of a Wikipedia article. He traces, of all things, the &#8220;Heavy metal umlaut&#8221; article. It&#8217;s fascinating to see the evolution in real time. Australian government trying to gag web censor critics Continuing an unfortunate tradition in which both major parties in Australia make major mistakes in regard to internet policy.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-10272008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 10\/27\/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-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}