Darrin points to the MIT SIMILE project. The lifeline/timeline visualization is similar to something I’ve been working on for the Genealogy Namespace for OPML project. While it’s cool to see a single person’s timeline, far more interesting to me in the intersection and relationship between multiple people (a marriage isn’t just one-sided, a birth has …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Luckmaking in Place
“Placemaking takes time and sometimes just plain dumb luck. No planner envisioned it all, first laying out the grid of streets and creating a zoning code for Dinkytown, then deciding precisely that an alley was to be converted to become the location of a breakfast counter and a legendary, delicious business.” – Sam Newberg A …
Postponed Due to Lack of Vision
I’ve been fighting with one aspect of FeedSeeder for quite a while now. None of the approaches I’ve taken ended up solving the problem in a useful way – many of them just mucked it up worse. The imaginary screen in my head that tells me ‘what it should be’ was blank and it was …
First Crack 95. Darrin Homme on Improving Local Competitive Bicycle Racing
Darrin’s raced bicycles for probably half the two decades+ I’ve known him. Inspired by Darrin’s USCF My Way post, I asked him to unpack the problems in local competitive bike racing that his points would solve. Listen to Darrin Homme on Improving Competitive Bicycle Racing [24 min].
Congrats to Tekdiff – Reaching 100th Episode
Congrats to Cayenne Chris and Tekdiff in reaching the 100 episode milestone. One of the longest running and still the funniest comedy podcasts around. Back in First Crack #45 – Cayenne and I talked about Tekdiff.
First Step’s the Hardest
“Success comes when you create something you want and need — and then find other people like you who agree they need and want it also.” – Rex Hammock
iTunes Music Store Replies – More than Two Years Later
Dear Garrick Van Buren, Thank you for your interest in iTunes. After careful consideration of your application, we believe that the most efficient way to get your content up on iTunes in a timely fashion would be for you to deliver the content through one of the several digital service providers with whom we currently …
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Consciously Overlooked
“There are lots of topics I want to track but I don’t care if I see every item.” – Steve Rubel
20th Century Phonecasters
“To listen to the music, a subscriber had merely to sit beside the telephone and hold the receiver to his ear.” – Popular Science, September 1933
What Do You Think I’ll Like?
Aaron, one of the masterminds behind FeedRinse, asks that all RSS Reader provide feed-recommendations. While I agree there is value in RSS readers making it easier to add relevant sources, my experience with the recommendation engines like Netflix and Amazon has them batting .30. It’s rare that I purchase or rent anything either of those …