You are looking at posts that were written in the month of March in the year 2004.
Posted on March 29th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: %a la mod.
Nice new face on Google today — but then, you’ve probably noticed already.
Posted on March 29th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
IT conversations is a lovely site full of audio interviews with the technorati (including our very own aegrumet!), and this week focuses on the 48-hour conversion of Larry Lessig’s new and spellbinding work, Free Culture – released under a CC license — as audio recordings made by various interested individuals.
For the discussion of who is recording which segments of the book, visit AKMA’s afterthought on the subject (where some of the aggregated playlists of multiple chapters can be found), and the original post that started it all (where the latest list of contributors lies).
Posted on March 29th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Awesome. Realtime commit logs, broadcast on one low-overhead channel. A great improvement over the old CIA Mailing List Server. I wonder how easy it is for log-browsers to filter out only those messages relating to operatives you care about…
Posted on March 26th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: %a la mod.
‘A revolution in how books are organized, edited, and published…‘ — distributed collaborative publishing, with what seems to be a decent collection of printing and design know-how. Their first book? The collected stories of Dean grassroots supporters.
Posted on March 26th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: international.
Now embedding: the world’s greatest ad for swearing. Care of the ever-loving blue-eyed channel4… you have to say it just like that.
Posted on March 25th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: international.
If you’ve ever wanted to make your own string of heiroglyphs, you should check out the international standard for abbreviating a heiroglyph chain in the latin character-set, and then visit heiro, a lovely heiroglyph generator whose output you can use however you please.
Posted on March 24th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: Glory, glory, glory.
Well, my infatuation is only growing stronger, but I think I’ll go back to posting about communication and general dissemination of ideas and hold off on the wikilinks for a while. First, however, I want to share one of the recent results of the Wikibooks project: A colorful, neatly laid-out German primer for English-speakers, with audio files and external references (to websites and texts), broken into three levels of advancement. In all, this is probably the equivalent of a full year of university German; I suppose that means that in print the text(s) would run you some $60.
This trio of texts is complete now, though still undergoing quiet improvements; the project to develop this book was begun six months ago. Of course many of the people who contributed had been gatharing their own private notes and images for years prior to that, but this is how life goes — 99% of all usefully-collated information gets packed up in a box and eventually recycled… as tree pulp, not as information. A non-rival award of two oofm to those who reuse such order instead.
Posted on March 24th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: popular demand.
This article includes perhaps the first public comparison of Britannica vs. our favorite underdog, the free encyclopedia. It is only a backhanded reference to Wikipedia, but there it is. (And I find it awfully unfortunate that sales of encyclopedias are down, in general; I consider the Britannica one of the great successes of modern information stewardship.)
Posted on March 23rd, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: popular demand.
Just what the doctor ordered for Easter. You know you’ve been wanting to drive this baby around the block a few times…
Posted on March 18th, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: Glory, glory, glory.
Coming soon to a Main Page near you: the most commonly-observed photonic crystalline lattice, in living color.