Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Turkers of the World Unite!

Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 9:22 PM

Experienced Turkers (people who perform work on Mechanical Turk) get together to talk shop and swap pictures.

Always on the lookout for a good 767 reference

Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 5:05 PM

I agree with Jack Shafer's premise, but not his predictions in his article about Google's future in Slate, but the article does have a great 767 reference:

Google had also lost its "don't be evil" cachet ever since founders Sergey and Larry had purchased a Boeing 767-200 and crashed it into Coit Tower while doing barrel rolls over the San Francisco Bay. They survived, but their reputations and that of their company did not.

Tags: 767 brin_page google

Time to do some reading

Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 2:17 PM

I've gotten way ahead of what I really know about. Before I start building an API based on XML and compatible with RSS and Atom, I better spend some time reading about all of these protocols. Besides, it's a rainy November afternoon in Boston.

Tags: api atom book rss xml

Tagging is now working

Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 2:09 PM

I finished the coding for tags on this and the Ruby site. I even have a simple tag cloud in the navbar. These tags are still only entered by me, but I'll have user tags eventually. I keep coming back to Joshua Schachter's comment that tags are about memory more than categorization. I'm trying to lose that rigid relational database kind of thinking. Once I have a full Ruby based version of this site I'll be able to tie into other tag based sites. For now these pages are still static html that is recreated and upload to this server every time I make a new post. I'll watch the stats and see if anyone actually uses the tag pages.